Dr. Chirag Shah

PI Chirag Shah at Rutgers will direct the overall research and project management. Shah, with the help of the PhD student on this project, will coordinate all communications between the Rutgers and Stevens research teams and will be responsible for arranging regular meeting times.

Dr. Chirag Shah is an assistant professor of Information Science and an affiliate member of Computer Science at Rutgers University.

PhD in Information Science from UNC Chapel Hill

Dr. Mor Naaman

PI Naaman will supervise the development of the Explore component of SOCRATES.

Dr. Mor Naaman is an associate professor at Cornell Tech, where he is one of the first faculty at the Jacobs Technion Cornell Innovation Institute.

Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University

Dr. Winter Mason

PI Mason will focus on Analyze aspects by integrating the processes with existing crowdsourcing technologies.

Dr. Winter Mason is an assistant professor at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Indiana University Bloomington

Ziad Matni

Ziad Matni is a doctoral student at SC&I-Rutgers, doing research in Information Science. His over-arching goals include to better understand why and how we use ICTs (specifically, social media). He is interested in using social media tools in novel ways to help us understand new and interesting things about ourselves, our social networks, our communities, and our neighborhoods. Ziad has a masters of science in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California and worked in several engineering and management positions in the electronics communication industry for about 13 years before turning to academia. Personal website.

Dongho Choi

Dongho Choi is a doctoral student in Library and Information Science at Rutgers University. He is interested in people's information behavior on social media, specifically in the context of business: product/service consumption, word of mouth, corporate strategy. He has educational background in Computer Science, Economics, and Business and worked at Samsung Electronics for 3 and half years as an engineer.

Kevin Albertson

Kevin Albertson is currently an undergraduate student at Rutgers University majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. He plans on pursuing research after his undergraduate studies. His main experience is in web and game development but he continues exploring a variety of interests.