About Me

I am a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. I work in the Social Dynamics and Wellbeing Lab, and I am advised by Dr. Munmun De Choudhury. I did my undergraduate in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and hold an overall industry research experience of five years.

I am interested in the interdisciplinary areas of computational social science and social computing. By complementing multimodal datastreams with social media, I adopt methods from machine learning, statistics, natural language, and causal inference analysis to sense, predict, and examine wellbeing and psychosocial dynamics of individuals and collectives, particularly in situated contexts, such as college campuses and workplaces.

Koustuv Saha

           

Recent Highlights

Publications

2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017


2020

  • Social Media Reveals Psychosocial Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic   Preprint
    Koustuv Saha, John Torous, Eric D. Caine, and Munmun De Choudhury
  • Social and Ubiquitous Technologies for Remote Worker Wellbeing and Productivity in a Post-Pandemic World   DL  PDF
    Vedant Das Swain+, Koustuv Saha+ , Gregory D. Abowd, and Munmun De Choudhury (+ co-primary authors)
    The New Future of Work Symposium 2020.   In Highlighted Talks
  • Causal Factors of Effective Psychosocial Outcomes in Online Mental Health Communities   DL  PDF  Video
    Koustuv Saha and Amit Sharma
    Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), (Acceptance: 16%), Presented at ICWSM 2020.
  • Modeling Organizational Culture with Workplace Experiences Shared on Glassdoor  DL  PDF  Press  Video
    Vedant Das Swain+, Koustuv Saha+ , Manikanta D. Reddy, Hemang Rajvanshy, Gregory D. Abowd, and Munmun De Choudhury (+ co-primary authors)
    Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Acceptance: 24%).
  • Measuring Self-Esteem with Passive Sensing  PDF
    Mehrab Bin Morshed+, Koustuv Saha+, Munmun De Choudhury, Gregory D. Abowd, and Thomas Plötz (+ co-primary authors)
    To Appear in Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, To be presented at PervasiveHealth 2020.
  • Understanding Moderation in Online Mental Health Communities  DL  PDF  Video
    Koustuv Saha, Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala, Sarmistha Dutta, Eva Sharma, and Munmun De Choudhury
    In 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Springer LNCS, Presented at HCII 2020.
  • Improved Sleep Detection Through The Fusion of Phone Agent and Wearable Data Streams  DL  PDF
    Gonzalo J. Martinez+, Stephen M. Mattingly+, Jessica Young, Louis Faust, Anind K. Dey, Andrew T. Campbell, Munmun De Choudhury, Shayan Mirjafari, Subigya Nepal, Pablo Robles-Granda, Koustuv Saha, Aaron Striegel (+ co-primary authors)
    In Workshop on Sensing Systems and Applications Using Wrist Worn Smart Devices (WristSense), co-located with IEEE PerCom,  Best Paper Honorable Mention 

2019

  • LibRA: On LinkedIn based Role Ambiguity and Its Relationship with Wellbeing and Job Performance  DL  PDF  Slides
    Koustuv Saha, Manikanta D. Reddy, Stephen M. Mattingly, Edward Moskal, Anusha Sirigiri, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (PACM HCI), (Acceptance: 31%), Presented at CSCW 2019.
  • The Language of LGBTQ+ Minority Stress Experiences on Social Media  DL  PDF  Slides
    Koustuv Saha, Sang Chan Kim, Manikanta D. Reddy, Albert J. Carter, Eva Sharma, Oliver L. Haimson, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (PACM HCI), (Acceptance: 31%), Presented at CSCW 2019.
  • A Social Media Study on the Effects of Psychiatric Medication Use DL  PDF    Slides
    Koustuv Saha, Benjamin Sugar, John Torous, Bruno Abrahao, Emre Kiciman, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the 13th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), (Acceptance: 18%), Presented at ICWSM 2019,   Outstanding Study Design Paper 
  • Imputing Missing Social Media Data Stream in Multisensor Studies of Human Behavior  DL  PDF  Slides
    Koustuv Saha, Manikanta D. Reddy, Vedant Das Swain, Julie M. Gregg, Ted Grover, Suwen Lin, Gonzalo J. Martinez, Stephen M. Mattingly, Shayan Mirjafari, Raghu Mulukutla, Kari Nies, Pablo Robles-Granda, Anusha Sirigiri, Dong Whi Yoo, Pino Audia, Andrew T. Campbell, Nitesh V. Chawla, Sidney K. D'Mello, Anind K. Dey, Kaifeng Jiang, Qiang Liu, Gloria Mark, Edward Moskal, Aaron Striegel, and Munmun De Choudhury (Non first 3 authors are listed alphabetically)
    Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), (Acceptance: 18%), Presented at ACII 2019.
  • Prevalence and Psychological Effects of Hateful Speech in Online College Communities  DL  PDF  Slides
    Koustuv Saha, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci), (Acceptance: 31.5%), Presented at WebSci 2019
  • A Multisensor Person-Centered Approach to Understand the Role of Daily Activities in Job Performance with Organizational Personas  DL  PDF
    Vedant Das Swain, Koustuv Saha, Hemang Rajvanshy, Anusha Sirigiri, Julie M. Gregg, Suwen Lin, Gonzalo J. Martinez, Stephen M. Mattingly, Shayan Mirjafari, Raghu Mulukutla, Subigya Nepal, Kari Nies, Manikanta D. Reddy, Pablo Robles-Granda, Andrew T. Campbell, Nitesh V. Chawla, Sidney K. D'Mello, Anind K. Dey, Kaifeng Jiang, Qiang Liu, Gloria Mark, Edward Moskal, Aaron Striegel, Louis Tay, Gregory D. Abowd, and Munmun De Choudhury (Non first 4 authors are listed alphabetically)
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT), 2019.
  • Prediction of Mood Instability with Passive Sensing  DL  PDF
    Mehrab Bin Morshed, Koustuv Saha, Richard Li, Sidney K. D'Mello, Munmun De Choudhury, Gregory D. Abowd, and Thomas Plötz
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT), 2019.
  • A Computational Study of Mental Health Awareness Campaigns on Social Media DL  PDF
    Koustuv Saha+, John Torous+, Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala, Conor Rizuto, Amanda Stafford, and Munmun De Choudhury (+ co-primary authors)
    Translational Behavioral Medicine (TBM), (Impact Factor: 2.5), 2019.
  • JobLex: A Lexico-Semantic Knowledgebase of Occupational Information Descriptors DL  PDF  Lexicon
    Koustuv Saha, Manikanta D. Reddy, and Munmun De Choudhury
    11th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2019)
  • Social Media as a Passive Sensor in Longitudinal Studies of Human Behavior and Wellbeing  DL  PDF  Slides
    Koustuv Saha, Ayse Elvan Bayraktaraglu, Andrew T. Campbell, Nitesh V. Chawla, Munmun De Choudhury, Sidney K. D'Mello, Anind K. Dey, Ge Gao, Julie M. Gregg, Krithika Jagannath, Gloria Mark, Gonzalo J. Martinez, Stephen M. Mattingly, Edward Moskal, Anusha Sirigiri, Aaron Striegel, and Dong Whi Yoo (Non first authors are listed alphabetically)
    Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI 2019 Case Study), (Acceptance: 30%), Presented at CHI 2019.
  • Differentiating Higher and Lower Job Performers in the Workplace using Mobile Sensing  DL  PDF
    Shayan Mirjafari, Kizito Masaba, Ted Grover, Weichen Wang, W., Pino Audia, Andrew T. Campbell, Nitesh V. Chawla, Vedant Das Swain, Munmun De Choudhury, Anind K. Dey, Sidney K. D'Mello, Ge Gao, Julie M. Gregg, Krithika Jagannath, Kaifeng Jiang, Suwen Lin, Qiang Liu, Gloria Mark, Gonzalo J. Martinez, Stephen M. Mattingly, Edward Moskal, Raghu Mulukutla, Subigya Nepal, Kari Nies, Manikanta D. Reddy, Pablo Robles-Granda, Koustuv Saha, Anusha Sirigiri, and Aaron Striegel (Non first 4 authors are listed alphabetically)
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT), 2019.
  • The Tesserae Project: Large-Scale, Longitudinal, In Situ, Multimodal Sensing of Information Workers  DL  PDF
    Stephen M. Mattingly, Julie M. Gregg, Pino Audia, Ayse Elvan Bayraktaraglu, Andrew T. Campbell, Nitesh V. Chawla, Vedant Das Swain, Munmun De Choudhury, Sidney K. D'Mello, Anind K. Dey, Ge Gao, Krithika Jagannath, Kaifeng Jiang, Suwen Lin, Qiang Liu, Gloria Mark, Gonzalo J. Martinez, Kizito Masaba, Shayan Mirjafari, Edward Moskal, Raghu Mulukutla, Kari Nies, Manikanta D. Reddy, Pablo Robles-Granda, Koustuv Saha, Anusha Sirigiri, and Aaron Striegel (Non first two authors are listed alphabetically)
    Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI 2019 Case Study), (Acceptance: 30%).
  • Automated Tracking of Components of Job Satisfaction via Text Mining of Twitter Data  PDF
    Louis Hickman, Koustuv Saha, Munmun De Choudhury, and Louis Tay
    ML Symposium, colocated with 34th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference (SIOP 2019).
  • On Microtargeting Socially Divisive Ads: A Case Study of Russia-Linked Ad Campaigns on Facebook  DL  PDF  Slides
    Filipe N. Ribeiro+, Koustuv Saha+ , Mahmoudreza Babaei, Lucas Henrique, Johnnatan Messias, Fabricio Benevenuto, Oana Goga, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Elissa M. Redmiles (+ co-primary authors)
    Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*), (Acceptance: 24%), Presented at FAT* 2019.

2018

  • A Social Media Based Examination of the Effects of Counseling Recommendations After Student Deaths on College Campuses DL  PDF  Slides
    Koustuv Saha, Ingmar Weber, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), (Acceptance: 16%), Presented at ICWSM 2018.
  • Modeling Stress with Social Media Around Incidents of Gun Violence on College Campuses  DL  PDF  Slides  Blog  Press
    Koustuv Saha and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (PACM HCI), (Acceptance: 27%), Presented at CSCW 2018.

2017

  • Inferring Mood Instability on Social Media by Leveraging Ecological Momentary Assessments  DL PDF  Slides
    Koustuv Saha, Larry Chan, Kaya de Barbaro, Gregory D. Abowd, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT), (Acceptance: 8%), Presented at Ubicomp 2017.
  • Characterizing Awareness of Schizophrenia Among Facebook Users by Leveraging Facebook Advertisement Estimates DL PDF  Slides
    Koustuv Saha, Ingmar Weber, Michael L. Birnbaum, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), (Impact Factor: 5.1), 2017, Presented at Mental Health Symposium, CHI 2017
  • Analyzing Ideological Discourse on Social Media: A Case Study on the Abortion Discourse DL PDF
    Eva Sharma+, Koustuv Saha+, Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala+, Sucheta Ghoshal+, and Munmun De Choudhury (+ co-primary authors)
    Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas (CSS 2017).

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