Research: Economics, Humanities and Computation

Faculty working in this area

Faculty Email website
Jeremy Blackburn jblackbu@binghamton.edu
Sujoy Sikdar ssikdar@binghamton.edu

Highlights in this area

researches a better understanding of how people behave online. He is particularly interested in 鈥渂ad鈥 behavior and has studied how cheating spreads like a disease in a social network of gamers, mis- and disinformation, online extremism and memes. As part of this broader work, he is building practical tools and systems for large-scale data collection and analysis with the  project.  

researches the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, economics and social science in understanding individual and group preferences, how preferences are aggregated in systems composed of multiple agents, and designing algorithms to make good decisions for groups of heterogeneous agents. Some examples:
  • Designing fair and efficient algorithms for group decision-making problems like fair division and voting.
  • Learning and modeling preferences from data.
  • Understanding human behavior in a variety of social contexts including in social media streams.