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

It Has Been Handled: Hoping for Transformation in the Neoliberal University Setting

Smith, Alyssa Hasegawa. 2025. “It Has Been Handled: Hoping for Transformation in the Neoliberal University Setting.“ Journal of Autoethnography, Volume 6 Issue 2.

You Want a Piece of Me: Britney Spears as a Case Study on the Prominence of Hegemonic Tales and Subversive Stories in Online Media.

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.

OpenFraming: Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data.

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.

The Discourse: An Online Debate

Smith, Alyssa. 2017. “The Discourse: An Online Debate.” Undergraduate Thesis, Cambridge, MA: MIT.

Talks

Locating the Asymmetry in Information Flow between Local and National Media on Transgender Discourses

July 19, 2024

Conference presentation at International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Philadelphia, PA, USA

Attention Brokers: Adapting the Tertius Iungens to an Amplification Paradigm.

June 20, 2023

Conference presentation at Sunbelt, Portland, OR, USA

Pardon Our Dust: Public Data Infrastructure Under Construction.

April 28, 2023

Conference presentation at Presented at the Greater Boston Digital Research & Pedagogy Symposium, Cambridge, MA, USA

Attentional Cat-Pital: Jorts The Cat’s Disruption of Triad Closure Processes in Social Networks.

June 18, 2022

Conference presentation at PaCSS: Politics & Computational Social Science, Cambridge, MA, USA

Infograffiti

June 20, 2021

Workshop at PaCSS: Politics & Computational Social Science, Cambridge, MA, USA

Doing Data Science With Queer Identities

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