Bio: Jana Diesner is a Full Professor at the Technical University of Munich, School of Social Science and Technology, Department of Governance, with an affiliate appointment at the School of Computing, Information and Technology. She leads the Human Centered Computing group. Her interdisciplinary group works on methods from network analysis, natural language processing, machine learning and AI, and integrates them with theories from the social sciences and humanities to advance knowledge about socio-technical systems and responsible computing. Jana earned her Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon, School of Computer Science. Jana joined TUM from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, where she was a tenured professor at the School of Information Sciences. There, she served as the Director of the Ph.D. Program, Director of Undergraduate Programs, and Director of Strategic Initiatives/ Data Science.
