Shruti Vikas Phadke

Shruti Phadke is an Assistant Professor in the Information Science Department at Drexel University's College of Computing & Informatics. Her research centers on understanding participation, social knowledge construction and disengagement in online communities that deal with problematic information, such as conspiracy theory discussion groups and extremist organizations. Recently, she has focused on the internet-mediated process of exiting problematic discussions online. Her research employs a variety of methodological approaches, including statistics, causal machine learning, natural language processing and qualitative methods. She has over a year of experience as a trust and safety research expert at a social media company and has authored several award-winning papers at the CSCW and ICWSM conferences.