Raiyan Abdul Baten
I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida. Previously, I completed my Ph.D. and postdoc at the Human-Computer Interaction (ROC-HCI) Lab in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester.
I build technology for soft-skills development, particularly for the social development of soft skills. I've included my detailed research statement here.
Research Areas: Computational Social Science, Network Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, Affective Computing, Data Science
Research Interests: Soft skills development, Collective performance in human ensembles, Misinformation in online networks
Address: 4202 E Fowler Avenue, ENG 116, Tampa, FL-33620
Email: rbaten@usf.edu
I'm actively seeking Ph.D. students in Computational Social Science, Network Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning/Deep Learning/AI, and Affective Computing.
Please find the full details on the Join Our Lab page.
News
[Sept 2023] I won the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the Association for the Advancement in Affective Computing (AAAC), the top professional association for researchers in Affective Computing. Grateful and happy!
[Mar 2023] Finally out of the job market! I will be joining the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida as a tenure-track assistant professor in Fall'23.
[Jan 2023] I am officially a Winter Warrior now! :D I finished Rochester's Winter Warrior Half Marathon today in 2 hours and 45 minutes. My second half-marathon! :D
[Dec 2022] I served as a panelist in the Navigating the Mentoring Relationship workshop, organized by the Warner School of Education at the University of Rochester. Mentorship is an under-discussed aspect of academia and I think these kinds of conversations should be held more widely.
[Nov 2022] Our paper "Novel idea generation in social networks is optimized by exposure to a "Goldilocks" level of idea-variability" just got accepted at PNAS Nexus!
[Sep 2022] I delivered two guest lectures on quantitative analysis methods in the HCI course at URCS (slides: part 1 and part 2).
[Aug 2022] I defended my Ph.D. thesis. Trust me, I'm a doctor!
[Jul 2022] Our paper "Predicting Future Location Categories of Users in a Large Social Platform" just got accepted at ICWSM'23. This work was done as part of my internship with the Computational Social Science group at Snap Inc.
[Feb 2022] I served as a judge in the Creative Collision Challenge, organized by the Ain Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Rochester.
[Jun 2021] ResearchGate has covered me in their Researcher Stories series. They have focused on my work and personal journey. Thanks to the RG team for the story!
Older news
[May 2021] Our paper "Cues to gender and racial identity reduce creativity in diverse social networks" got accepted at Scientific Reports! This is my pandemic work and I'm super excited!
[Feb 2021] Our paper "Technology-driven alteration of nonverbal cues and its effects on negotiation" got accepted by the Negotiation Journal. It is a special edition journal by the Harvard Law School.
[Nov 2020] Worked as a student volunteer at NeurIPS'20.
[Sep 2020] Our paper "Creativity in Temporal Social Networks: How Divergent Thinking is Impacted by One’s Choice of Peers" got accepted by the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Yay!
[Aug 2020] I got accepted for the Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), 2020!
[Oct 2019] Represented Hajim College of Engineering and talked about the work we do at the ROC-HCI Lab at the inauguration ceremony of Sarah Mangelsdorf, the 11th president of the University of Rochester.
[Sep 2019] Presented my paper, "Upskilling together: How peer-interaction influences speaking-skills development online", at ACII'19! I was also a co-author in a second paper, "LIWC into the eyes: Using facial features to contextualize linguistic analysis in multimodal communication". Visiting Cambridge, UK, was a fascinating experience.