Patrick Y. Wu
@PatrickYWu
assistant professor of CS @AmericanU | computational social science, NLP, AI/ML | previous: @CSMaP_NYU, @UMich, @UChicago
It was great working with @nicolekwu on this paper that's now out at PS: Political Science & Politics! Special thanks to @APSAtweets for helping us field the survey. Check out the summary of the paper below.👇
As departments and universities were rapidly/frantically holding panels in response to generative AI last year, @PatrickYWu and I got curious and partnered with @APSATweets to survey political science educators on AI & pedagogy. bit.ly/3YMl1TM
In the Global South, WhatsApp is more popular than X or Facebook. New in @The_JOP, we ran a WhatsApp deactivation experiment during Brazil’s 2022 election to explore how the app facilitates the spread of misinformation and affects voters’ attitudes. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…
We're extending the deadline to Sunday, June 22, 11:59pm AoE! Submit your extended abstracts to the NLP4Democracy Workshop at @COLM_conf !
📢 Excited to announce the first workshop on ✨NLP for Democracy✨ (NLP4Democracy) at @COLM_conf! 🗓️ Submissions (extended abstracts) due on June 19, 11:59pm AoE 🔗 Website: sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.edu… #COLM2025 #LLMs #NLP #NLProc #ComputationalSocialScience
If you’re attending #APSA2024 today, feel free to join our panel on Navigating Political Narratives to hear from me and my incredible colleagues @allisonwkoh @siyuliang46 @_paugc @PatrickYWu. Thanks to @cbarrie @arthur_spirling for agreeing to be our discussants!
Excited to see this @journalqd ! The latest of several papers with @KirstenWidner and @annagunderson examining what interest groups do on social media 🐊🍾🍻
New publication dropped with @MG_Macdonald and @annagunderson ! journalqd.org/article/view/4… We examine the social media behavior of over 1,500 US interest groups on Facebook and Twitter 1/4
Anyone hiring data scientists? Have a friend finishing her quant marketing PhD at Harvard Bus School, dissertation is on maximizing user engagement across social media channels and formats using ML/causal inference/experiments, has 4 yrs experience in econ consulting
How might AI, TikTok, and the liar's dividend affect the 2024 elections? @ZeveSanderson, @SolomonMg, and @j_a_tucker explain in this new piece for @BrookingsInst 🧵 1/ brookings.edu/articles/misun…