Pranav Goel

Dr. Pranav Goel (he/him) is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Lazer Lab at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute. He completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland. His research interests broadly span computational social science and natural language processing, viewing language as a social phenomenon and text data as a potent digital trace of societal dynamics. Dr. Goel is particularly interested in the sociopolitical phenomenon of framing (including agenda-setting) in news and social media, both as a reflection of often unquestioned and harmful defaults in society and as a force for progressive change and meaningful disruption of the status quo.