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General Information
| Full Name | Brian C. Keegan |
| Date of Birth | February 1984 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Citizenship | United States |
Education
- 2012
Ph.D.
Northwestern University
- Media, Technology, and Society
- High Tempo Knowledge Collaboration in Wikipedia's Coverage of Breaking News Events
- 2012
M.A.
Northwestern University
- Media, Technology, and Society
- Breaking News, Breaking Planes, and Breaking Hearts: Psycholinguistic Dynamics and Sensemaking in Collaborative Accounts of Catastrophe
- 2006
Experience
- 2016 - present
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
- Department of Information Science (primary)
- Department of Computer Science (by courtesy)
- Affiliate, Research and Education Addressing Cannabis and Health
- Affiliate, Population Center, Institute for Behavioral Research
- Affiliate, American Politics Research Lab, Department of Political Science
- Affiliate, Natural Hazards Center, Institute for Behavioral Research
- Faculty Fellow, ATLAS Institute
- 2014 - 2016
Research Associate and Data Scientist
Harvard Business School Online, Boston, Massachusetts
- 2012 - 2014
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
- 2007 - 2012
Graduate Student
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Research disciplines
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Computational social science
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Social computing
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Network science
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Computer-supported cooperative work
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Computer-mediated communication
Academic Interests
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High-tempo online collaboration
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Human-centered data science
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Cannabis informatics
Funding
- 2019 - 2023
A Genealogical Framework to Understand the Emergence of Online Groups
Cyber-Human Systems, National Science Foundation
- 2021
TEACHR: Technical Explanation of Algorithmic Choice Hierarchy and Reasoning
AWFERX
- 2018 - 2021
Social Dynamics of Organizational Behavior in Temporary Virtual Teams
Cyber-Human Systems, National Science Foundation
- 2019 - 2021
Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas as Models of High-Tempo Virtual Teams
Oracle for Research
- 2017 - 2018
Prosopographical data mining for analyzing multiple network among members of U.S. Congress since 1789
CU Boulder Research & Innovation Seed Grant Programs
Open Source Projects
- 2021 - present
wikifunctions
- A lightweight collection of scripts for retrieving data from the MediaWiki API.
Honors and Awards
- 2019
- Honorary Mention, Best Paper; ACM CSCW
- 2017
- Participant, Leadership in Science Policy Institute
- 2015
- Honorary Mention, Best Paper; ACM CSCW
- 2011
- Best Paper; ACM Conference on Web Science
- Best Paper; The Game Behind the Video Game Conference
- Best Student Paper; Communication and Technology Division, ICA
- 2010
- Honorary Mention, Best Paper; ACM CSCW
Other Interests
- Rowing, astronomy, gardening and composting, hiking, 4X games