Research
My research examines the overlap of technology and society: Social Media Platforms and Persuasion, Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing, and the Machine Learning and Optimization methods behind them.
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Journal articles
Geopolitics · 2025 The Many Semantic Lives of Geopolitics: Evidence from the New York Times Archive, 1900–2023
Natural Hazards Review · 2021 Quantifying the Role of Vulnerability in Hurricane Damage via a Machine Learning Case Study
Conference proceedings
IADIS Conference · 2026 Forthcoming Generative AI for Microenterprises: A Process Model for Growth
AMCIS · 2025 An Evolutionary AI Approach for Hub-Location Decisions: Leveraging Genetic Algorithms for Sustainable Supply Chains
AMCIS · 2021 Top 25% Paper Changing Views: Pre-suasion in a Reddit Discussion Community
ISCRAM · 2020 Analyzing and Contextualizing Social Vulnerability to Natural Disasters in Puerto Rico
ISCRAM · 2020 A Machine Learning Method to Quantify the Role of Vulnerability in Hurricane Damage
Under review
Annals of Operations Research Under review A Foundational Perspective for Partitional Clustering on Networks
Information & Management Under review Signals That Disarm: Persuasion Acknowledgments, Popularity Cues, and Audience Resistance in Online Discourse
Working papers
In preparation Social Media Platforms from a Decision Science Lens: A Data-Driven Typology
Elsewhere on this site
- Ongoing projects — independent studies and research in progress
- Talks — invited talks, conference presentations, and workshops
Students
I supervise undergraduate and graduate research, including summer projects. If you are a Brockport student interested in working on something in this space, get in touch before the term starts — the earlier the better.