Dr. Nathan Teblunthuis

Biography

Nathan TeBlunthuis is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin's iSchool. He is a computational social scientist whose research focuses on organizing digital environments, particularly on platforms like Wikipedia and Reddit. TeBlunthuis analyzes machine learning technologies and how they are utilized within communities by social scientists. His work emphasizes the understanding of relationships among organizations and their success in various contexts, drawing from organizational ecology. He primarily employs computational methods to work with large datasets of behavioral digital traces, emphasizing natural language processing, machine learning, and causal inference using observational data. TeBlunthuis earned his Ph.D. in 2021 from the University of Washington's Department of Communication, where he studied Peer Production, Computational Social Science, Online Communities, Statistics, Big Data, and Machine Learning. His first-authored works have been published in leading venues in computing and communication, receiving top paper awards from the Computational Methods Division of the International Communication Association for consecutive years.

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