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My name is Soojong Kim. I am a tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Communication at the University of California Davis. I am a faculty affiliate of the Computational Communication Lab and the Computational Social Science Designated Emphasis program at UC Davis. I have been elected and currently serving as the Secretary of the Computational Methods Division of the International Communication Association (ICA). Before joining UC Davis, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, jointly affiliated with the Program on Democracy and the Internet (PDI) and the Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL). I received my PhD at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. I have a background in computer science and engineering, and previously I worked as a researcher at Samsung Electronics for several years.

Based on advanced computational and quantitative methods, I study the impacts of inequality, disparity, and risk in the context of health, environment, and governance. Here are some of the active clusters of my research.
(1) InequalAI: Is AI dividing society? How can we design and adopt new technologies considering equality and justice?
(2) The information ecosystem project: More expansive & granular exploration of the ecosystem of connections, flows, and narratives in digital space.
(3) Mapping the machine mind: How are human behaviors and social norms “perceived” by AI models?
(4) Info-forecast: Capturing and predicting (dis)information’s causal effects on people, in real-time.
Here are recent outcomes.

More information about me can be found on my Curriculum Vitae, LinkedIn, and faculty profile.
Research articles and patents are listed on my Google Scholar profile.
You can also find me on Twitter: @soojongkim_1.
I am fortunate to work with amazing collaborators.
Email me if you have any questions: soojong_kim_97[at]gmail.com (remove the underscores.)