Benjamin Horne

Benjamin D. Horne is an Assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at The University of Tennessee Knoxville. He is also a Joint Faculty Assistant Professor in The Bredesen Center's Data Science and Engineering program at The University of Tennessee Knoxville. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where he received the Robert McNaughton Prize for outstanding graduate in Computer Science. Dr. Horne is a highly interdisciplinary, computational social scientist whose research focuses on safety in media spaces. Broadly, this research includes analyzing disinformation in media and designing information interventions for said disinformation. His work has been published in conference venues such as ICWSM and WebSci, and in journals such as Computers in Human Behavior and Communications of the ACM. Additionally, Dr. Horne’s work has been covered in news media, such as Reuters, Business Insider, Mashable, IEEE Spectrum, and YLE.