Ben Horne is an Assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at The University of Tennessee Knoxville. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where he received the Robert McNaughton Prize for outstanding graduate in Computer Science. Dr. Horne is a highly interdisciplinary, computational social scientist whose research focuses on safety in media spaces. Broadly, this research includes analyzing disinformation, propaganda, conspiracy theories, and the like in both social media and news media. His work has been published in conference venues such as ICWSM and TheWebConference (WWW), and in journals such as ACM Transactions of Intelligent Systems Technology, ACM Transactions of Social Computing, and Computers in Human Behavior. Additionally, Dr. Horne’s work has been widely covered in news media, such as Reuters, Business Insider, Mashable, IEEE Spectrum, and YLE.
