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Dr. Pranav Goel (he/they) is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Lazer Lab at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests span computational social science & natural language processing, including text-as-data applications in computational political science, analyzing framing in news and social media, understanding misinformation narratives, and improving topic model evaluation and their ability to assist practitioners. Currently, he is exploring news consumption patterns across a variety of online platforms, seeking to improve our understanding of the digital local news landscape, and studying the interaction between self-reported survey data and behaviors drawn from observed trace data. His research has been published at top conferences and research venues, including winning the "Outstanding Study Design" award at ICWSM 2023.