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Ritika Pandey

Research Assistant Professor

Biography

Dr. Ritika Pandey is a Research Assistant Professor at Boston College School of Social Work, where she works as a data scientist on the Gateway Initiative-- a partnership between the school and communities in Massachusetts's Gateway Cities, drawing on publicly available data and partnering directly with community stakeholders and non-profit organizations to develop data-driven solutions with meaningful social impact. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University, where her dissertation focused on rewiring police officer training networks to reduce forecasted use of force. Her research lies at the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing, and large language models, with applications in social harm, criminal justice, and public health. Her previous work includes modeling homicide investigations using knowledge graphs and analyzing transitions in drug use and recovery through text mining of online communities.

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