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.
CV
You can view a PDF version of my CV here
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
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
An Annotated Dataset of U.S. Transgender News For Determining Agenda-Setting & Information Flows
Presentation at Computation and Journalism Symposium, Boston, MA, USA
Locating the Asymmetry in Information Flow between Local and National Media on Transgender Discourses
Conference presentation at International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Philadelphia, PA, USA
Attention Brokers: Adapting the Tertius Iungens to an Amplification Paradigm.
Conference presentation at Sunbelt, Portland, OR, USA
Pardon Our Dust: Public Data Infrastructure Under Construction.
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.
Conference presentation at PaCSS: Politics & Computational Social Science, Cambridge, MA, USA
Infograffiti
Workshop at PaCSS: Politics & Computational Social Science, Cambridge, MA, USA
Doing Data Science With Queer Identities
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