Senior Research Scientist

ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy

Yelena Mejova is a Senior Research Scientist at the ISI Foundation in Turin, Italy, working in the area of Data Science for Social Impact and Sustainability. Her research concerns the use of social media and AI to understand the way people make decisions about their health and wellbeing, how science is communicated to the public, and the role of technology in mediating these processes, which she contextualizes in the social, political, and cultural spheres. Since 2023, she is a co-Editor-in-Chief of EPJ Data Science. Previously as a scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute, Yelena was a part of the Social Computing Group working on computational social science, especially as applied to tracking real-life health signals. As a post-doctoral researcher at Yahoo Research Barcelona, she was a part of Web Mining and User Engagement groups.

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