Dibyendu Mishra

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Hi! I am a PhD Student in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science where I research socio-technical systems and their governance. I am motivated by issues of social justice and focus my inquiries on public sector algorithms and social media. My current interests include: (a) organisational and social dynamics of realising ethical principles in AI development and (b) public accountability of algorithmic systems.

In the past, I was a Data Scientist at the Ministry of Rural Development (Govt. of India) where I studied and designed in-situ algorithmic systems by interfacing with administrators and beneficiaries alike, to improve service delivery of government welfare programs. Prior to that, I worked with Joyojeet Pal at Microsoft Research India on political polarisation, crisis informatics, and disinformation on social media. I received my Bachelors in Computer Science from Ashoka University in India.

Email: dm926 [at] cornell [dot] edu

Publications

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  1. Explorable Explainable AI: Improving AI Understanding For Community Health Workers in India
    Ian René Solano-Kamaiko, Dibyendu Mishra, Nicola Dell, and Aditya Vashistha
    ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24) 2024
  2. [Poster] Use of Algorithms in the Public Sector: Decision Support or Control Systems?
    Sanjana Malhotra, Harsh Nisar, Dibyendu Mishra, and Richa Marwah
    Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’22) 2022
  3. Sporting the government: Twitter as a window into sportspersons’ engagement with causes in India and USA
    Dibyendu Mishra, Ronojoy Sen, and Joyojeet Pal
    Digital Politics in India: A Global Perspective for the Global Policy Journal 2022
  4. Voting with the Stars: Analyzing Partisan Engagement between Celebrities and Politicians in India
    Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Dibyendu Mishra, Sachita Nishal, Faisal M. Lalani, and Joyojeet Pal
    Proceedings of the ACM (PACM): Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW ’22) Apr 2022
  5. Virality and the Virus: COVID-19 Cures on Twitter in India
    Dibyendu Mishra, Syeda Zainab Akbar, Gazal Shekhawat, and Joyojeet Pal
    In Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS ’22) Jan 2022

    Best Paper Nominee

  6. Divided We Rule: Influencer Polarization on Twitter during Political Crises in India
    Saloni Dash, Dibyendu Mishra, Gazal Shekhawat, and Joyojeet Pal
    Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ’22) May 2022
  7. DISMISS: Database of Indian Social Media Influencers on Twitter
    Arshia Arya*, Soham De*, Dibyendu Mishra*, Gazal Shekhawat*, Ankur Sharma, and 10 more authors
    Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ’22) May 2022
  8. Devotees on an Astroturf: Media, Politics, and Outrage in the Suicide of a Popular FilmStar
    Syeda Zainab Akbar, Ankur Sharma, Dibyendu Mishra, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Himani Negi, and 3 more authors
    In ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS ’22) May 2022
  9. Insights Into Incitement: A Computational Perspective on Dangerous Speech on Twitter in India
    Saloni Dash, Rynaa Grover, Gazal Shekhawat, Sukhnidh Kaur, Dibyendu Mishra, and 1 more author
    In ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS ’22) May 2022

    Honorable Mention for Best Paper

  10. Rihanna versus Bollywood: Twitter Influencers and the Indian Farmers’ Protest
    Dibyendu Mishra, Syeda Zainab Akbar, Arshia Arya, Saloni Dash, Rynaa Grover, and 1 more author
    May 2021
  11. NivaDuck - A Scalable Pipeline to Build a Database of Political Twitter Handles for India and the United States
    Anmol Panda, A’ndre Gonawela, Sreangsu Acharyya, Dibyendu Mishra, Mugdha Mohapatra, and 2 more authors
    In International Conference on Social Media and Society (SMSociety ’20) May 2020

Blog Posts

  2. Modi’s 2021 Cabinet Reshuffle: The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same
    Dinsha Mistree, Dibyendu Mishra, Arshia Arya, Parantak Singh, and Joyojeet Pal
  5. Political partisanship and COVID response in India
    Dibyendu Mishra, Anmol Panda, and Joyojeet Pal
  6. Koo and the attempt to create a ‘nationalist Twitter’
    Arshia Arya, Dibyendu Mishra, and Joyojeet Pal
  7. Freedom of press and social media partisanship in India
    Dibyendu Mishra, and Joyojeet Pal
  9. Indian journalists’ influence on Twitter
    Dibyendu Mishra, and Joyojeet Pal
  10. Indian politicians and the journalists they prefer
    Dibyendu Mishra, and Joyojeet Pal
  12. Polarity of News Sources among Indian Politicians
    Dibyendu Mishra, and Joyojeet Pal
  13. Influencers in Indian political journalism
    Somya Sagarika, Dibyendu Mishra, and Joyojeet Pal

The blogposts along with the aforementioned publications been covered widely in the media including The Business Standard, LiveMint, Bloomberg Quint, The Wire, The Print, The Times of India, Scroll and Quartz India