Dominic Difranzo
Assistant Professor at Lehigh University
Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDominic Difranzo is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University with nine years of research and industry experience focused on human-computer interaction and social computing. He designs and evaluates interventions that encourage prosocial online behavior—tackling issues like cyberbullying, misinformation, and healthier digital discourse—by building realistic experimental social media platforms that offer fine-grained control over both interface and social dynamics. His work bridges design and social science, producing ecologically valid studies published in CHI, CSCW, WebSci, and WWW. Having held research positions at Cornell and the University of Southampton and started his career as a software engineer at GE Healthcare, he combines rigorous empirical methods with practical engineering. An unusual strength is his emphasis on tooling: the experimental platforms he develops are themselves research contributions that let others test interventions in complex online ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (2)
social-media10
docker1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cornellsml/truman
Apr 2017 - May 2022
Fake social, not social, network.
Contributions:1 release, 158 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 1 month
social-networkresearch-tool
cse264/final-project
Oct 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:6 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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