Jisun An

Jisun An is an Assistant Professor at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington (IUB), leading the Social Data and AI (SODA) Lab. Previously, she held positions at Singapore Management University (SMU) and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). She earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge (2015), supported by EPSRC, and received the Google European Scholarship. Her research focuses on computational social science, leveraging NLP and machine learning to analyze social media, political communication, health informatics, and journalism.

Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science (University of Cambridge, 2015). Notable roles include Associate Editor of EPJ Data Science and PC member for conferences like ICWSM, ACL, and AAAI. She co-organized the News and Public Opinion (NECO) workshop (2016-2020). Teaching includes courses on Performance Analytics and Computational Social Science.

Research highlights include studies on media attention patterns, user engagement, hate speech detection, and public health campaigns. Her work bridges interdisciplinary gaps, combining theoretical foundations with practical computational methods. Recent projects explore discursive power in media systems and predictive modeling of collective behavior.

• Awards: Google European Scholarship
• Key Projects: Discursive Power in Media, Precision Public Health Campaigns, and Algorithmic Bias Analysis
• Labs/Teams: SODA Lab at IU, previously contributed to QCRI's research initiatives