Benjamin Horne
Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Horne is an Assistant Professor and computer scientist with 11 years of experience combining machine learning research, teaching, and applied systems work. His research focuses on news credibility detection, explainable and human-centered ML for media, and addressing real-world challenges like concept drift and modeling producer intentions; he also brings a recurring interest in sports analytics. Trained at Rensselaer (PhD) and Union University (BS, BBA), he translates theoretical models into usable tools and has experience deploying practical IT solutions in industry. Benjamin has collaborated with government and research labs (NSF, U.S. Army Research Laboratory) and emphasizes explanations that align with human heuristics to reduce bias in decision-making—melding technical rigor with social impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Union UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (19)
text-mining10
language-features10
crossword9
lda9
topic-modeling9
nlp8
landscape7
natural-language-processing7
data-analysis6
python6
tandem4
networked3
snap2
trust2
decision-making2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MELALab/MELALab.github.io
May 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
BenjaminDHorne/The-NELA-Toolkit
Nov 2017 - Oct 2020
The News Landscape Toolkit (NELA)
Contributions:86 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 11 months
crossworddata-analysispythondataminingtoolkit
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