Bao is a postdoc in the junior research group “Computational Social Science”. Her research focuses on the development of technological and policy interventions to reduce online harms. These include: methods to detect abuse of social media, tools to evaluate platform policies and governance, and design heuristics that promote social cohesion and well-being. She approaches these questions using quantitative methods, studying large-scale datasets, network analysis, natural language processing, and machine learning.
Ph.D. in Informatics (Complex Networks and Systems track), 2025
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
B.Sc. in Technological Systems Management, 2018
Stony Brook University, USA