Tracy Shen is currently a Data Scientist at AccuWeather and PhD candidate for machine learning at Penn State University. She is also a research assistant at the Computational and Spatial Analysis Core of the Population Research Center(Nation’s top 3) at Penn State. There she manages 44TB geotagged twitter database and provides twitter analysis for the university grant writing leveraging Pittsburgh Super Computer Center and Hadoop and Spark environments. Her research interest is in computational social science utilizing machine learning, natural language processing and network analysis methodology. She’s affiliated to PIKE lab at the School of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State, working on the SysFake project to detect fake news user susceptibility. Please see her full CV here.
PhD Candidate in Data Science, 2023
Penn State University
M.A in International Affairs, 2012
Penn State University
B.A in English, 2008
Zhejiang University, China
Memory Illusion lead us to believe in fake news
User Susceptibility to Fake News
I was a teaching assistant for the following courses at Penn State University:
SRA468:Spatial Analysis of Risk-Fall 2018:
DS220:Data Management-Data Science-Spring 2019: