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Munmun De Choudhury

Munmun De Choudhury is a Georgia Tech computer scientist who uses social media data, machine learning and language analysis to understand mental health and well-being. Raised in a small town in Tripura, in northeast India, she earned a bachelor's degree at the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology in 2005 and a doctorate in computer science at Arizona State University in 2011, then did postdoctoral research at Microsoft Research before joining Georgia Tech in 2014. Her 2013 paper on social media as a measurement tool of depression, written with Scott Counts and Eric Horvitz, won the inaugural Web Science Trust Test of Time Award in 2022, and she received the ACM-W Rising Star Award in 2021 and the SIGCHI Societal Impact Award in 2023. In 2025, she became a full professor and joined OpenAI's Expert Council on Well-Being and AI. She is a professor in the School of Interactive Computing and directs the Social Dynamics and Wellbeing Lab, whose questions now include the effects of generative AI tools.

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Timeline

  1. 2005–2011

    A PhD at Arizona State

    She grows up in a small town in Tripura, in northeast India, and earns a bachelor's degree from the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology in Bhopal in 2005. She completes a Ph.D. in computer science at Arizona State University in 2011, with Hari Sundaram as her doctoral supervisor.

  2. 2011–2013

    Postdoc at Microsoft Research

    From 2011 to 2013, she is a postdoctoral researcher in the neXus group at Microsoft Research in Redmond. In 2013, she writes 'Social Media as a Measurement Tool of Depression in Populations' with Scott Counts and Eric Horvitz.

  3. 2014–2020

    Assistant professor at Georgia Tech

    In 2014, she joins the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing as an assistant professor, and in the academic year 2014–15 she is also a faculty associate with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. She is promoted to associate professor in 2020.

  4. 2019–2021

    Rising Star and ICWSM chair

    She receives the Complex Systems Society Junior Scientific Award in 2019. In 2020, she serves as General Chair of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), and in 2021 she receives the ACM-W Rising Star Award, which recognizes early-career research with a significant impact on computing.

  5. 2022–2024

    Test of Time and SIGCHI honors

    In 2022, her 2013 paper with Scott Counts and Eric Horvitz receives the inaugural Web Science Trust Test of Time Award, presented at the ACM Web Science Conference. She receives the SIGCHI Societal Impact Award in 2023 and is inducted into the SIGCHI Academy in 2024.

  6. 2025

    J. Z. Liang Professorship

    In January 2025, she receives the J. Z. Liang professorship in the School of Interactive Computing, and she is promoted to full professor effective August 2025.

  7. October 2025

    OpenAI's well-being council

    In October 2025, OpenAI announces its Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, a group of eight experts that includes her. The council advises the company on ChatGPT and Sora and helps define what healthy AI interactions look like.

  8. As of October 2026

    Directing the SocWeB Lab

    She is the J. Z. Liang Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and directs the Social Dynamics and Wellbeing Lab, which she founded. The lab asks whether social media can serve as a window into mental health, how engagement with social media and generative AI tools affects it, and whether online technologies can be designed to support it safely and ethically. She also co-leads the Patient-Centered Care Delivery research pillar at the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center at Georgia Tech.

Career

  1. Since 2014Georgia Institute of TechnologyAssistant Professor, Associate Professor
  2. 2011–2013Microsoft ResearchPostdoctoral Researcher

Education

  1. 2011Arizona State UniversityPhD
  2. 2005Maulana Azad National Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree

From the biography.

  1. 23% of people shaping AI who left a university for a company later returned to a universityIncludes Munmun De Choudhury. We estimate that 468 of the 2,011 people shaping AI who left a university for a company (23%) later returned to a university after a median of 5 years, and 163 of 829 (20%) made the reverse round trip.
  2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  3. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  4. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.

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  1. Munmun De Choudhury - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Home | munmund munmund.net. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. ACM-W Rising Star Award Recipient: Munmun De Choudhury women.acm.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Munmun De Choudhury | Research Community people.research.gatech.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. OpenAI adds expert council to boost safety measures after FTC inquiry cnbc.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Social Dynamics and Wellbeing Lab socweb.cc.gatech.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.