About Me

Hello! I'm a Research Scientist at Facebook. I am also working on finishing my PhD in Information Science at Cornell University - in which I focus on Computational Social Science. I’m a member of the Social Dynamics Laboratory, and am advised primarily by Michael Macy. Other members of my committee include: Lillian Lee & Mabel Berezin.

Prior to graduate school, I received a BA in Communications and Sociology at Rutgers University

Research Topics:

Topics: Social Polarization, Radicalization, Social Influence vs. Self-Selection, Lifestyle Politics

Research Methods: Natural Language Processing, Network Analysis, Causal Inference, Machine Learning, Online-Based Experiments

News:

▪ Started a full-time position at Facebook for 2021.
▪ Interned with Facebook Engineering for Summer, 2020.
▪ Co-authored a paper in Science Advances titled “Opinion cascades and the unpredictability of partisan polarization.” [Link]
▪ Interned on the Listener Science team at Pandora Media (Summer, 2019).

Contact:

e-mail: natalie.t.tong at gmail dot com