About
Doctoral researcher, sometime field-experimenter, occasional engineer. Working at the seam between computational social science and the platforms that organize public life.
I am a PhD student at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information, working with Kiran Garimella. My research follows misinformation as it moves through private messaging platforms — encrypted, hard to instrument, and increasingly the dominant medium of political talk in much of the world — alongside parallel strands on hate-speech campaigns in elections, peer fact-checking on WhatsApp, the accessibility of user-facing moderation tools, and the rules people write to govern their own online communities. Recent collaborations have taken me to the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, to Cornell Tech, and to the Security, Trust & Safety Initiative.
Before Rutgers I read computational social science at the University of Chicago, where I worked with Molly Offer-Westort and Nick Feamster on adaptive field-experimental tools for correcting misperceptions on Indian WhatsApp. Earlier still I was an engineer in Bangalore — firmware at Smarterhomes Technologies and Bosch Global Software.
Positions
- 2025–
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Research Collaborator — Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
with Carolina Coimbra Vieira and Emilio Zagheni - 2025–26
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Research Collaborator — Cornell Tech / Cornell University
with Aditya Vashistha - 2022–23
- Graduate Research Assistant — Data Science Institute, University of Chicago
- 2022
- Summer Fellow — Chicago Summer of eXistential Risk, University of Chicago
- 2019–21
- Senior Software Engineer — Bosch Global Software Technologies, Bangalore
- 2018–19
- Lead Firmware Engineer — Smarterhomes Technologies, Bangalore
Education
- 2023–
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PhD, Information Science — Rutgers University
Advisor: Kiran Garimella - 2024–
- MS, Statistics — Rutgers University
- 2021–23
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MA, Computational Social Science — University of Chicago
Thesis: Correcting Misperceptions on Indian WhatsApp with Experimental Adaptation · Advisor: Molly Offer-Westort - 2014–18
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BEng, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering — BITS Pilani
Thesis: A multi-3G/4G platform for real-time mobile applications · Advisor: Malati Hegde (IISc)
Selected publications
- 2026
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Evaluating Peer Fact-Checking on WhatsApp
Sudhamshu Hosamane, Kriti Sharma, Tanvi Goyal, Molly Offer-Westort, Kiran Garimella · Proceedings of CHI ’26 · preprint - 2025
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Hate Speech Campaigns in the 2016 Philippine Elections on Facebook
Sudhamshu Hosamane, Kiran Garimella · Proceedings of ICWSM ’25 - 2025
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A Critical Examination of the Accessibility of User-Enacted Moderation Tools on Facebook and X
Sudhamshu Hosamane, Alyvia Walters, Yao Lyu, Shagun Jhaver · Preprint · pdf - 2025
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Examining LLM-Assisted Rule Creation in WhatsApp Groups
Sudhamshu Hosamane, Farhana Shahid, Kiran Garimella, Aditya Vashistha · Preprint · pdf
Selected talks
- 2025
- A Critical Examination of the Accessibility of User-Enacted Moderation Tools on Facebook and X — Lunch Seminar, Google Research NYC
- 2025
- Evaluating Peer Fact-Checking on WhatsApp — Yale FDS Workshop: New Directions in Social Algorithms Research
- 2024
- Navigating Hate Speech and Political Influence on Philippine Social Media — Security, Trust & Safety Initiative Lunch Seminar, Cornell Tech
- 2024
- Navigating Hate Speech and Political Influence on Philippine Social Media — Plenary, IC2S2, Philadelphia
- 2024
- Navigating Hate Speech and Political Influence on Philippine Social Media — Rutgers Conference for Rising Stars in Graduate Research, New Brunswick
Honors & fellowships
- 2025
- Security, Trust & Safety Initiative Fellowship — Cornell Tech
- 2023–24
- Graduate Fellowship — Rutgers University
- 2022
- Chicago Summer of eXistential Risk Fellowship Grant
- 2021–23
- Maroon Scholarship — University of Chicago
Service
- 2024
- Program Committee — International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc)
- Reviewer
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ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2025
PNAS Nexus · ICWSM · 2024, 2026
ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) · 2024
International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) · 2022, 2023, 2024, 2026
Contact
- sh1779@rutgers.edu
- in/sudhamshu-m-hosamane
- GitHub
- sudhamshow
- @theSudhamshow