Ryan Boyd
Assistant Professor Of Psychology at The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Boyd is a computational social scientist and social/personality psychologist with a decade of experience translating language data into insights about cognition, emotion, and behavior. He combines academic rigor—PhD-trained research, faculty roles at UT Dallas, Lancaster, and Stony Brook—with industry-facing impact at TikTok, Microsoft, and behavioral-tech firms, building algorithms and tools for psychological text analysis. Known for bridging interdisciplinary teams of psychologists and computer scientists, he publishes, mentors, and ships analytic platforms that profile personality and detect harmful platform behaviors. Based in Richardson, Texas, he balances scholarly curiosity with a pragmatic knack for turning natural-language signals into actionable models and policy-relevant recommendations. An oft-overlooked strength is his breadth of applied experience, from consulting and product-focused roles to traditional professorial duties, giving him fluency across research, engineering, and real-world deployment.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Social/Personality Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Social/Personality Psychology at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor’s Degree, Psychology, Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology at Indiana University—Purdue University Fort WayneMaster of Science - MS, Social/Health Psychology, Master of Science - MS, Social/Health Psychology at North Dakota State University
Github Skills (18)
epub7
mobile-application6
csharp5
android5
phonetics5
ios5
chatgpt4
openai4
acl4
webui4
natural-language-processing4
computational-linguistics3
dotnet3
stanford-nlp3
feed2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ryanboyd/KoToken
Apr 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
ryanboyd/PlugNChug
Mar 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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