Ata Uslu

Hi! Ata here. I’m a computer scientist and a doctoral researcher in network science at Northeastern University. I study the societal impact of technology, especially social networks and artificial intelligence, using computational social science methods. My work has appeared in Nature, JAMA, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and more. I double-majored in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Koc University in Istanbul. I love everything about social networks and politics, and on an average day, I try to make sense of them with large amounts of data. My advisor and mentor is David Lazer.

Before my adventure in Boston, I used to be a software development intern at BMW in Munich (2016), and a team leader for Turkish Airlines IT governance&security department in Istanbul (2018-2020). Then I returned to academia.

I conducted my first research in 2014, in the field of Combinatorics, and my novel findings and resulting formulas were awarded the Karl Menger Award by American Mathematical Society in Los Angeles, and by the Scientific Research Council of Turkey in Ankara. Now, after a decade, my work (particularly for the NSF-funded CHIP50 project) is covered by the Atlantic, CNN, NYT, WP and some others.

This was just a quick summary. For fun: here is what AI thinks about me (v: GPT-4o).