I'm a Ph.D. student in Northwestern University's Media, Technology, and Society. At Northwestern, I collaborate in the Lab on Innovation, Networks, and Knowledge under the guidance of Prof. Agnes Horvat.

I'm broadly interested in misinformation, the science of science, online democracy, computational social science, and AI for social good. My work focuses on advancing online scholarly communication and promoting the democratization of science through digital science dissemination.

I obtained my master's degree in the MACSS program at UChicago. At UChicago, I worked in the Knowledge Lab with Prof. James Evans on the Misinformation Project.

Previously, I graduated from Emory University with a B.S. in Mathematics/Computer Science and Psychology/Linguistics. At Emory, I worked in the Concept Mining Lab with Prof. Phillip Wolff on investigating large language model's knowledge about the physical world.

Papers

Journal Articles & Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings

Haohan Shi and Phillip Wolff. What Transformers Might Know About the Physical World: T5 and the Origins of Knowledge. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vol. 43. No. 43, Vienna, Austria, 2021

Preprint

Junsol Kim, Zhao Wang, Haohan Shi, Hsin-Keng Ling, and James Evans. Individual misinformation tagging reinforces echo chambers; Collective tagging does not.

Posters & Presentations (Extended Abstracts)

Haohan Shi and Matthew VanEseltine. Expertise Mismatch and Academic Retraction: An Embedding-Based Analysis. International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI), National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, 2024

Matthew VanEseltine and Haohan Shi. Stealing the Spotlight or Fading into the Background: Retracted Papers and Disruption. International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI), National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, 2024

José Córdova, Toma Hirose, Haohan Shi, Daniel Romero, and Ágnes Hórvat. Early Indicators of Academic Articles’ Online Popularity. International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI), National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, 2024

Haohan Shi and Matthew VanEseltine. Disruption and Research Integrity: Insights from Retracted Papers. International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC²S²), the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2024

Junsol Kim, Hsin-Keng Ling, Haohan Shi, Zhao Wang, and James Evans. The Diffusion of Fake News in Policy. International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI), Northwestern University, Chicago, 2023

Contact

haohanshi2028[at]u[dot]northwestern[dot]edu