I am an Assistant Professor in Computational Communication at the National University of Singapore. My research interests lie in developing computational models of persuasive and argumentative language and building social media platforms that better facilitate constructive conversations. My research has been published in Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Journal of Communication, among other venues.
Before joining NUS in 2020, I spent a year as a Presidential Postdoctoral fellow at Nanyang Technological University, and two years (2016-2018) as a CS postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania. I was also a Senior Data Scientist at Adobe Research India for three years (2013-2016) where I was developing research and analytical capabilities for digital marketing tools.
At NUS, I run the SMOL (Social Media, Online behavior, and Language) project.
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I'm hiring for multiple long- and short-term roles! I'm looking for Research Fellows, PhD students, and Master's by Research students on multi-year contracts, RAs for one-year contracts, and undergrads for six-month internships and co-curricular projects. Students can be at NUS/remote and would lead six-month research projects in computational linguistics and computational social science. Please email me if you're (really) keen, self-driven, organized, and goal-oriented with a couple of ideas you'd like to pursue.
P.S.:
Prospective PhD students must first be admitted to NUS' PhD program before they can work with an individual advisor. If you are interested in working with me, please first apply to our program and then drop me an email. Undergraduate and Masters students who have already been admitted to the NUS and are interested in working on computational social science problems are welcome to contact me. Include your interests, degree, major, and resume in your email.
I'm always happy to mentor remote students on their own research projects or have them join one of mine. We work on research problems with an end goal in sight, such as a conference or a grad school application deadline.
Feel free to email me; but if you are unsure about how to email a professor, there are some reasonable tips here.
- Kokil
Computational linguistic and deep learning approaches to analyzing online behavior, with applications for
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