Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science
Tiago Ventura is an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. He previously worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Social Media and Politics at New York University, and a researcher at Twitter. As a computational social scientist, he has worked on substantive issues in political communication, social media, and political behavior, with a focus on studies on content activation and propagation, misinformation, and polarization in Latin American countries. Methodologically, he is interested in causal inference problems, online field and survey experiments, network models to deal with large volumes of data, and applications of natural language processing to social science problems.
For his most recent research agenda, Tiago Ventura was awarded a large research grant from the Tech & Public Policy program at Georgetown’s McCourt School to conduct multi-country field experiments focusing on the effects of misinformation exposure through social media messaging apps (particularly WhatsApp) on beliefs for misinformation and political attitudes in the Global South.
Tiago Ventura is a proud native of the North of Brazil, born and raised in Belém, the largest city in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest Region. Before moving to the United States, he lived for many years in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which is the most fun and beautiful city in the world. Like most Brazilians, Tiago is passionate about soccer, coffee, and samba.
