Shubham Atreja

Shubham is passionate about helping students build data science skills through real-world problems, but not so much about grading their assignments. In the classroom, he emphasizes curiosity, inclusive participation, and the importance of responsible innovation in data work. He brings over eight years of experience designing and conducting data-driven research, focusing on online news and social media data. For his dissertation, he designed AppealMod, an open-source tool that helps Reddit moderators handle user appeals. His research has been published in leading venues including CHI, CSCW, NAACL, ICWSM, and IUI, and he holds two granted patents. When he’s not teaching or debugging his tools, you’ll find him hiking, reading science fiction, or collecting passport stamps in search of the perfect street food.

• Data engineering
• Data science
• Machine learning
• Human-computer interaction

• Online trust and safety
• Social computing
• Human-centered design

• University of Michigan, PhD in Information, 2025
• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, BTech in Electrical Engineering, 2016

• Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology (2019-2020)
• Research Engineer, IBM Research India (2016-2019)

• Atreja, S., Ashkinaze, J., Li, L., Mendelsohn, J., & Hemphill, L. (2025, June). What's in a Prompt?: A Large-Scale Experiment to Assess the Impact of Prompt Design on the Compliance and Accuracy of LLM-Generated Text Annotations. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (Vol. 19, pp. 122-145).
• Atreja, S., Im, J., Resnick, P., & Hemphill, L. (2023). AppealMod: Shifting Effort from Moderators to Users Making Appeals. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1), 1-35.
• Atreja, S., Srinath, S., Jain, M., & Pal, J. (2023, April). Understanding Journalists’ Workflows in News Curation. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).
• Atreja, S., Hemphill, L., & Resnick, P. (2023). Remove, Reduce, Inform: What Actions do People Want Social Media Platforms to Take on Potentially Misleading Content?. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW), 1-33.
• Atreja, S., Aggarwal, P., Mohapatra, P., Dumrewal, A., Basu, A., & Dasgupta, G. B. (2018, March). Citicafe: An interactive interface for citizen engagement. In 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 617-628).