{"id":1254,"date":"2023-08-14T20:48:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T20:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joyojeetpal.wordpress.com\/about-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:31:36","slug":"about-2-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am a professor at the School of Information<\/a> at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My recent work has been on the use of social media in mainstream politics, on the flow and networks of misinformation online. I started the Social Media and Society<\/a> group at Microsoft Research, and founded the Social Media and Society in India<\/a> symposium at Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am a faculty affiliate at the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing<\/a>, at the Michigan Institute for Data and Artificial Intelligence in Society<\/a>, and at the Center for South Asian Studies. Prior to rejoining the University of Michigan, I was a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research<\/a>, where I was part of the Technology for Emerging Markets<\/a> group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been a visiting scholar at the Research for Advanced Science and Technology<\/a> at University of Tokyo, at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law<\/a> at Stanford University, at Saarland University<\/a>, at Department of Computer Science, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de M\u00e9xico<\/a>, with the Natural Language Processing group at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence<\/a> in Abu Dhabi, and with ZeMKI at the University of Bremen<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not currently admitting new graduate students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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