CV
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Education
- Ph.D in Network Science, Northeastern University, 2025 (expected)
- B.S. in Humanities and Engineering with Computer Science and Comparative Media Studies, MIT, 2017
Work experience
- 2019-2021: Labs Data Scientist
- Kayak Software Corporation
- Built data pipelines and machine learning models. Led the LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group
- 2017-2019: Graph Data Engineer
- Kensho Technologies
- Built data infrastructure for graph machine learning models
Skills
- Qualitative methods
- Python data science stack
- sklearn/numpy/scipy/pandas/nltk/etc
- pytorch ecosystem
- Data infrastructure
- pyspark
- SQL
- noSQL (MongoDB, Elasticsearch)
Publications
Smith, Alyssa Hasegawa, Adina Gitomer, and Brooke Foucault Welles. 2023. “You Want a Piece of Me: Britney Spears as a Case Study on the Prominence of Hegemonic Tales and Subversive Stories in Online Media.” First Monday, December. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i12.13314.
Bhatia, Vibhu, Vidya Prasad Akavoor, Sejin Paik, Lei Guo, Mona Jalal, Alyssa Smith, David Assefa Tofu, et al. 2021. “OpenFraming: Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data.” In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, 242–50. Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic: Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-demo.28.
Smith, Alyssa. 2017. “The Discourse: An Online Debate.” Undergraduate Thesis, Cambridge, MA: MIT.
Talks
July 19, 2024
Conference presentation at International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Philadelphia, PA, USA
June 20, 2023
Conference presentation at Sunbelt, Portland, OR, USA
April 28, 2023
Conference presentation at Presented at the Greater Boston Digital Research & Pedagogy Symposium, Cambridge, MA, USA
June 18, 2022
Conference presentation at PaCSS: Politics & Computational Social Science, Cambridge, MA, USA
June 20, 2021
Workshop at PaCSS: Politics & Computational Social Science, Cambridge, MA, USA
August 13, 2020
Poster at PaCSS,
Teaching
- Fall 2024: Co-instructor for PHYS 7332 (Network Science Data)
- Spring 2023: Guest Lecturer for NULab Digital Humanities Project Seminar
- Spring 2022: Guest Lecturer for SOCL 4600 (Sociology Senior Seminar)
Service to Profession
- 2024: Reviewed for First Monday
- 2023: Reviewed for Digital Humanities Quarterly
Departmental Service & Leadership
- 2024: Led job interview practice group
- 2024: Coordinated & moderated industry careers panel
- 2024: Founded cross-disciplinary mentorship program
- 2023-2024: President/Student Liaison, Network Science Graduate Student Association
- 2023: Cohort Liaison, Network Science Graduate Student Association