Munmun De Choudhury
Munmun.Dechoudhury@asu.edu
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• Academic Background

  I am a Computer Science Ph.D Student at the Arizona State University, Tempe (ASU) working with Dr Hari Sundaram. My broader research interests span the area of "computational social sciences". Specifically, it comprises computational and empirical analysis of communication dynamics in online social networks. I have developed methods to understand and model information flow, emergent interactions in online communities and dynamic characterization of rich media.
  
  My work is also closely intertwined with the broader research goal of the Reflective Living group at AME (Arts, Media & Engineering) wherein we seek to improve the human condition based on our experiences on variagated media.
  
  During the course of my Ph.D, I have had the opportunity to intern at Yahoo! Research with Duncan Watts, and at Avaya Labs with Doree Duncan Seligmann. Till date, I have also been a "relationship employee" with the Collaborative Applications Research at Avaya Labs through an ASU-Avaya Labs academic collaboration. Earlier, I received a Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Computer Science & Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Bhopal in Bhopal, India in 2005.

• For more information, please refer to my CV here.
• Recent Updates

• 2009.11.19: Released six different social datasets for non-commerical public use under a Creative Commons License. Please navigate to this page for more information.

• 2009.09.02: Attended the Key Scientific Challenges Graduate Student Summit organized by Yahoo! Research at Sunnyvale, CA. Link to my poster is here.

• 2009.08.30: Presented our paper on "Social Synchrony" at IEEE Conference on Social Computing 2009.

• 2009.07.02: Presented our paper on "Connecting Media to Community" at ICME 2009.

• 2009.06.18: Visited Avaya Labs, Basking Ridge, NJ for an invited talk on our ASU-Avaya collaboration; and presented the work we have been doing over the past one year.

• 2009.05.18: Joined the Microeconomics and Social Systems group at Yahoo! Research, NY as a summer research intern under Duncan Watts.