Alexander Nwala
Assistant Professor at William & Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Nwala is an assistant professor and former postdoctoral researcher specializing in the intersection of computing, network science, and media studies to study dis/misinformation diffusion and online manipulation. With 11 years of experience spanning academia and prominent fellowships at Harvard and the Berkman Klein Center, he blends empirical analysis with computational methods to detect and counter information operations. His work at Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media and a PhD from Old Dominion underpin a research agenda grounded in large-scale network measurement and practical interventions. Based in Williamsburg, VA, he is known for translating complex networked phenomena into actionable insights for scholars, platforms, and policymakers.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Old Dominion UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Elizabeth City State University
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Github Skills (28)
bing-api9
boilerpipe8
hyphenation8
traits8
bing7
classification7
python7
file-exists6
java6
stanford-nlp6
modeling5
nlp5
social-media5
text-extraction5
text-processing5
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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