Munmun De Choudhury, Ph.D.

Munmun De Choudhury is an Associate Professor at the School of Interactive Computing in Georgia Institute of Technology. Trained as a computer scientist, Dr. De Choudhury is passionate about how novel forms of social interaction online might shape, benefit, or harm our health and well-being. Dr. De Choudhury is best known for laying the foundation of a new line of research that develops human-centered computational techniques to understand and improve mental health outcomes, based on ethical analyses of social media. She has been recognized with the 2023 SIGCHI Societal Impact Award, two Test-of-Time Awards, from ICWSM and from the Web Science Trust, the 2021 ACM-W Rising Star Award, the 2019 Complex Systems Society – Junior Scientific Award, as well as nearly two dozen paper awards. Dr. De Choudhury's research has also resulted in many practical and policy implications. These range from collaborating with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on suicide prevention, to supporting mental health and gun control advocacy non-profit organizations, and to contributing to a consensus report by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the impact of social media on the wellbeing of young people. Last year, Dr. De Choudhury was an invited contributor to the Office of U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory on The Healing Effects of Social Connection.