Bao Truong

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.

Interests

Online harms and safety
Platform governance and digital policy
Social media and abuse detection
Network analysis
Natural language processing
Machine learning

Education

2025 Ph.D. in Informatics (Complex Networks and Systems track), Indiana University Bloomington, USA
2018 B.Sc. in Technological Systems Management, Stony Brook University, USA