Michael Yoder
Teaching Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Yoder is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh with 11 years of experience applying data science and NLP to study social interaction, identities, and ideology in online spaces. His work blends computational text analysis, quantitative methods, and social science insight to develop tools for tracking and detecting hate speech and other forms of harmful discourse. He has transitioned from hands-on research roles at Carnegie Mellon—where he contributed to interdisciplinary centers focused on targeted violence and social cybersecurity—to teaching data science to diverse student populations in both in-person and online formats. Michael also engages with the ethical and societal implications of computational technologies, bringing a practice-oriented perspective informed by prior experience building multilingual named-entity mapping and GIS applications.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Goshen CollegeMaster's of Science (M.S) Language Technologies, Master's of Science (M.S) Language Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University
Spanish, Arabic
Stackoverflow
31reputation
2kreached
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Github Skills (13)
acl10
twitter10
computational-linguistics10
phonetics10
twitter-api10
natural-language-processing9
pipeline9
python9
nlp9
google-scholar7
pdb6
scraper3
scrapy3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
michaelmilleryoder/michaelmilleryoder.github.io
Nov 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:87 commits, 17 PRs, 462 pushes in 3 years 3 months
michaelmilleryoder/hate_speech_identities
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:60 commits, 102 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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