I am the CCI Board of Visitors Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences in the College of Communication and Information at The University of Tennessee Knoxville. I am also Joint Faculty in The Bredesen Center's Data Science and Engineering program, a Founding Fellow of the CCI Information Integrity Institute, an Affiliate of the Center for National Security and Foreign Affairs at the Baker School for Public Policy and Public Affairs, and a member of the Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity within the College of Arts and Sciences.

I am a highly interdisciplinary, computational social scientist who broadly studies media ecosystems. I typically study trust in these ecosystems, particularly when automated/AI interventions for mis/dis/malinformation are introduced. I like to think about this work within the pipeline shown in the Figure below, where I study various facets of media production, the humans who consume it, and interventions in between.