Alexander Nwala
Assistant Professor at William & Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Nwala is a researcher and educator shaping the study of online misinformation by blending computing, network science, and media studies. As an Assistant Professor at William & Mary, he focuses on dis/misinformation diffusion, detection, and countering online manipulation, drawing on his postdoctoral work with Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media. His career spans a PhD in Computer Science from Old Dominion University and internships at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a Harvard Summer Fellowship, reflecting a strong record of interdisciplinary scholarship. He operates at the intersection of theory and practice, translating insights into approaches for safer online information ecosystems. Based in Williamsburg, Virginia, he brings a decade of research experience to his academic role.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Old Dominion University
Stackoverflow
1reputation
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1answer
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Github Skills (28)
bing-api9
bing9
boilerpipe8
traits7
classification7
file-exists6
nlp6
zones6
python6
java6
stanford-nlp6
bloc5
hyphenation5
natural-language-processing5
script5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
anwala/teaching-network-science
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:57 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
oduwsdl/sumgram
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
sumgram is a tool that summarizes a collection of text documents by generating the most frequent sumgrams (conjoined ngrams)
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 2 commits in 9 months
frequentpythonngrams
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