Jana Diesner

Jana Diesner is a Full Professor at the Technical University of Munich, School of Social Science and Technology, with a joint appointment at the School of Computation, Information and Technology. She leads the Human-Centered Computing group. Her group works on methods from network science, natural language processing, machine learning, and AI, and integrates them with theories from the social sciences and humanities to advance our understanding of theories and patterns of complex societal systems. Their work considers cultural contexts and ethical concerns to advance responsibility in computational sciences. Before joining TUM in 2024, Jana was a tenured professor at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, School of Information Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon, School of Computer Science.

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