Winter Mason
Research Scientist Manager at Meta
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolWinter Mason is a research scientist manager with 14 years of experience investigating how micro-level cognitive and social processes aggregate into macro social outcomes, currently leading research at Meta. With a PhD in social psychology and cognitive science and prior roles as an assistant professor and visiting scientist at Yahoo! Research, Winter blends rigorous academic methods with industry-scale data science. Their work focuses on social computing, crowdsourcing, social network analysis, and social media, translating theory into measurable insights for product and policy. Based in Gaithersburg, MD, they have a long-standing track record of bridging social science and computational methods across academia and large tech. An underappreciated strength is their ability to operationalize psychological constructs for large-scale observational and experimental studies, enabling practical interventions grounded in theory.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Social Psychology, Cognitive Science, Ph.D., Social Psychology, Cognitive Science at Indiana University BloomingtonCarnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Science, Psychology; Cognitive Psychology, Bachelor of Science, Psychology; Cognitive Psychology at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (8)
java7
spring7
spring-boot7
pinterest5
elasticsearch5
analytics4
python3
web-analytics3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
winteram/IAT
Jan 2013 - May 2016
Online IAT
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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winteram/FashionPins
Oct 2012 - Sep 2015
Contributions:63 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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