Sian Lee

Assistant Professor for Scholar Support and Data Services

• Faculty
• Instructor

• Email:

  slee63@olemiss.edu

• Office Location:

  Jesse L. White Room (310A)

• Phone:

  662-915-5877

Research Interests

• Computational Social Science
• Misinformation
• Applied Natural Language Processing / Machine Learning / Deep Learning
• Experiments

Biography

My Role:

As an Assistant Professor of Scholar Support and Data Services (SSDS), I teach computational methods that enhance the research capabilities of faculty, staff, and students while fostering digital literacy. My research focuses on computational social science, investigating the intersection of computational methods and human behavior analysis. Specifically, I apply data science techniques—including Statistical Inference, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning—to understand, analyze, and predict human decision-making and behavior.

Selected Publications:

• Seo, H., Lee, S., Xiong, A., & Lee, D. (2024). Reliability Matters: Exploring the Effect of AI Explanations on Misinformation Detection With a Warning. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 18(1), 1395–1407.
• Lee, S., Xiong, A., Seo, H., & Lee, D. (2023). “Fact-Checking” Fact-Checkers: A Data-Driven Approach. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review, 4(5).
• Lee, S., Seo, H., Xiong, A., & Lee, D. (2023). Associative Inference Can Increase People’s Susceptibility to Misinformation. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 17(1), 530–541.
• Xiong, A., Lee, S., Seo, H., & Lee, D. (2023). Effects of associative inference on individuals’ susceptibility to misinformation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 29(1), 1–17.
• Seo, H., Xiong, A., Lee, S., & Lee, D. (2022). If You Have a Reliable Source, Say Something: Effects of Correction Comments on COVID-19 Misinformation. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 16(1), 896–907.
• Seo, H., Xiong, A., Lee, S., & Lee, D. (2021). (In)effectiveness of Accumulated Correction on COVID-19 Misinformation. In Technology, Mind, and Behavior Proceedings 2021.
• Lee, S., Forrest, J., Strait, J., Seo, H., Lee, D., & Xiong, A. (2020). Beyond cognitive ability: Susceptibility to fake news is also explained by associative inference. In Late-Breaking Works of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–8.

Committees:

• Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Applied Statistics (GMAS) Committee
• Library Digital Scholarship Committee
• Library Artificial Intelligence Committee

Workshops Taught:

• Introduction to LaTeX / Overleaf
• Building a Resume/CV with Overleaf/LaTeX
• Introduction to Google Colab: Using Generative AI for Python Programming
• Text Data Analysis for Beginners Using Python and Kaggle Dataset (Workshop Series)