CS professor Koustuv Saha from The Grainger College of Engineering Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was awarded the Adamic-Glance Distinguished Early Career Award by AAAI ICWSM, June 23-26, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark. As the awards committee cited, “the Award recognizes a person who has distinguished themselves through creativity and rigor in identifying and addressing important computational social science research topics of societal impact. We are pleased to present the 2025 ICWSM Adamic-Glance Award to Dr. Koustuv Saha, recognized for foundational work in using social media and multimodal sensing data to measure and improve well-being in situated contexts, and methodological advances in causal inference for observational social data”.
Saha also contributed to the lightning talk “Mental Health Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on College Students: A Quasi-Experimental Study on Social Media” at the conference.
Grainger Engineering Affiliations
Koustuv Saha is an Illinois Grainger Engineering professor of computer science.