Homa Hosseinmardi — Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Communication.

I am a computational social scientist with a computer science background focused on the auditing of sociotechnical systems and, in general, the information ecosystem. What we observe as users’ experience on platforms is a complex interaction of society and technology. General features of my work on the study of digital technologies include carefully considering the whole spectrum from pure user intention to pure platform design, performing cross-platform analysis, and putting observations into context when studying complex systems.

My Research

The overarching theme of my work is utilizing computational tools—machine learning, natural language processing, complex network analysis, and statistical and causal inference—to extract actionable and interpretable insights from data, typically with very little or no supervision. My work is inherently interdisciplinary and I collaborate closely with sociologists, economists, political scientists, and psychologists. Over the years, my research has been featured in the press and published in more than 30 peer-reviewed papers, including computer science conferences and top journals such as PNAS, Science Advances, TKDE, and IMWUT.

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Apr 14, 2026Congrats to Pooriya for receiving the Summer Research Mentorship Award!
Jan 25, 2026Invited panelist for “Addressing Methodological Challenges in LLM-enhanced Computational Communication” at the 76th Annual ICA Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, June 4-8, 2026!
Jan 24, 2026Invited speaker at “AI and the political economy of information filtering” at Oxford University, May 25-27, 2026!
Dec 12, 2025Invited keynote speaker at the Computation + Journalism Symposium in Miami on December 11-12!
Sep 1, 2025Received UCLA New Faculty Award, 2025-2026.