
PhD Student @ USC
(she/her/hers)
Hi! My name is Julie and I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Southern California (USC), Information Sciences Institute (ISI), advised by Dr. Emilio Ferrara. I am also part of the Annenberg Game Lab. I study computational social science, developing ML techniques to empirically study human behavior on large-scale online platforms for social good . I have had the pleasure to intern at Spotify Research, Snap Research, TikTok/ByteDance, Google, and Bose. Prior to USC, I obtained my B.S. from Tufts University in 2019, where I double-majored in CS and Math.
I am honored to be on the 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 (Science) list. I was also awarded the Snap Research Fellowship in 2022.
Outside of work/school, I love playing the piano :)
Looking for full-time industry opportunities starting early 2024.
* indicates equal contribution
Julie Jiang, Xiang Ren, and Emilio Ferrara
17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2023.
Preprint
Julie Jiang, Ron Dotsch, Mireia Triguero Roura, Yozen Liu, Vítor Silva, Maarten W. Bos, and Francesco Barbieri
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2023.
Paper
Alexander J. Bisberg*, Julie Jiang*, Yilei Zeng, Emily Chen, and Emilio Ferrara
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW2 (PACM HCI), 2022.
Paper
arXiv
Julie Jiang, Nils Murrugarra-Llerena, Maarten W. Bos, Yozen Liu, Neil Shah, Leonardo Neves, and Francesco Barbieri
The 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2022.
Paper
Julie Jiang, Xiang Ren, and Emilio Ferrara
JMIRx Med, 2021.
Paper
Julie Jiang, Danaja Maldeniya, Kristina Lerman, and Emilio Ferrara
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (PACM HCI), 2021.
Paper
Video
Julie Jiang, Emily Chen, Shen Yan, Kristina Lerman, and Emilio Ferrara
Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2020
Paper
Media Coverage
Rebecca Dorn, Negar Mokhberian, Julie Jiang, Jeremy Abramson, Fred Morstatter, and Kristina Lerman
SPB-BRiMS 2023
Julie Jiang, Kristina Lerman, and Emilio Ferrara
The 11th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), 2023.
Preprint
Julie Jiang, Emily Chen, Luca Luceri, Goran Murić, Francesco Pierri, Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, and Emilio Ferrara
To appear at The 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ’23), Workshop on the Data for the Wellbeing of the Most Vulnerable.
Preprint
Julie Jiang, Jesse Thomason, Francesco Barbieri, and Emilio Ferrara
The 15th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci), 2023.
Paper arXiv
Emily Chen*, Julie Jiang*, Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Goran Muric, and Emilio Ferrara
JMIR Infodemiology, 2022.
Paper
Yuzi He, Christopher Tran, Julie Jiang, Keith Burghadt, Emilio Ferrara, Elena Zheleva, and Kristina Lerman
The 16th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG), 2021.
Paper
Julie Jiang, Kristina Lerman, and Emilio Ferrara
The 20th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Workshop on High Dimensional Data Mining, 2020.
Paper
arXiv
Julie Jiang, Li-Ping Liu, and Soha Hassoun
Bioinformatics, 2021
Paper
Code
Emiliy Chen*, Julie Jiang*, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman, and Emilio Ferrara
The 6th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), 2020, oral presentation.
Extended Abstract
Julie Jiang, Li-Ping Liu, Soha Hassoun
2020 MIT AI Powered Drug Discovery and Manufacturing (AIDM), poster presentation.
Poster
Julie Jiang, Li-Ping Liu, Soha Hassoun
2019 Machine Learning in Computation Biology (MLCB), poster presentation.
Poster
2015 - 2019
B.S. in CS and Math (magna cum laude)
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2022, Spring 2023
Teaching Fellow (Head Teaching Assistant)
Spring 2018, Fall 2018, and Spring 2019
Teaching Assistant
Spring 2018
Teaching Assistant
Spring 2017 and Fall 2017