Sohan Dsouza

Sohan Dsouza offers his expertise as a consultant in the areas of computational social science research; software engineering, especially for business intelligence; and open-source intelligence investigation of misinformation and influence operations. Sohan is working on ways to solve discovery, veracity, and mobilization problems using a combination of technology and social science. His research background includes crowdsourcing, strategic cooperation, incentive mechanisms, social mobilization, AI ethics, and computer-mediated negotiation. He is interested in the intersection between disinformation and political polarization, and in AI-powered deception, and their implications for platform design and policy. He is a trained and experienced practitioner of open-source intelligence (OSINT) for exposing manipulation online, and a Visiting Researcher on the subject with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Sohan brings years of experience in academia, primarily in computational social science research, along with years of experience in industry as a software engineer. His formal education spans Computer Information Systems (BS), IT Management (MBA/PGDM), Informatics (MSc), and Media Arts and Sciences (SM). Sohan's work has been published in Nature, PNAS, Transport, and IEEE intelligent Systems, and has been covered by major media outlets including the New York Times, BBC, NPR, Guardian, New Scientist, Scientific American, and Associated Press.