I recently completed my PhD in Computer Science at the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. I was a member of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory and my advisor was Dr.Jacob Eisenstein. 

My research interests lie primarily in the computational analysis of language in online social media.  My thesis work focuses on computational approaches to understanding stylistic variation in online writing. General interests include: Computational Sociolinguistics, Computational Social Science, Social Computing, Natural Language Processing, Social Network and Social Media Analysis, and Data Science for Social Good.

In summer 2017 I interned with Facebook's Core Data Science Team. In summer 2016 I interned at Microsoft Research and worked on a clinical natural language processing project. I participated in the National Security Internship Program at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in summer 2015, working in the Data Sciences and Analytics group on some exciting social media analytics research. In summer 2014 I was a Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellow at DSSG-ATL. We analyzed a large dataset of 911 dispatch calls from the City of Atlanta to help the stakeholders better under the workload distribution of dispatching. 

Before coming to Georgia Tech, I was a Junior Visiting Scholar at the Data to Insight Center at Indiana University working with Prof.Beth Plale. I was an undergraduate at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and received my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2012.

email me at: umashanthip [at] gmail {dot} com

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