Katherine Ognyanova
Associate Professor
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolKatherine Ognyanova is an associate professor and computational social scientist based in the New York City area with 11 years of experience studying how networks and digital platforms shape civic behavior, misinformation dynamics, and political participation. She combines rigorous network science, computational methods, survey design, and information visualization to bridge theory and empirical work using both digital trace and self-reported data. At Rutgers and in prior fellowships at Harvard, Northeastern, and USC she has translated interdisciplinary training—spanning communication and computer science—into methodological advances for studying mediated social influence. Her background as a journalist informs a pragmatic orientation toward real-world information ecosystems and public communication. She is particularly noted for applying visualization and network analytic tools to reveal how interpersonal ties and platform affordances jointly alter what people believe and how they act.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Communication, PhD, Communication at University of Southern CaliforniaSummer Doctoral Program, Oxford Internet Institute, Summer Doctoral Program, Oxford Internet Institute at University of OxfordMA, Computer Science, MA, Computer Science at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Bulgarian, English, Russian
Github Skills (11)
network-visualization10
r-package10
python9
science9
data-visualization9
visualization9
computational-social-science9
development-environment5
ide5
rstudio4
editor3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kateto/PolitwoopsR
Mar 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
kateto/covidstates
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:30 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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