SOS+CD Lab University of
Colorado Boulder

The people behind
the questions.

A shared curiosity about science. A range of perspectives on how to make it better.

Principal investigator

Daniel Acuña

Daniel Acuña

Associate Professor of Computer Science, and Information Science by courtesy, at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research examines how science works, with a focus on research integrity, peer review, and computational discovery.

He is also an entrepreneur and founder of ReviewerZero.ai, which develops AI tools for research integrity and was a winner of CU Boulder’s 2023 Lab Venture Challenge.

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Doctoral students

External research assistants

Elizabeth Novoa

External consultant from Unika Analytics, since Summer 2018.

Alumni

Postdoctoral researcher1 person
  • Qing Ke, since Fall 2020 - August 2021, now Assistant Professor School of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong
Ph.D. students4 people

  • Yifan Tian, Department of Computer Science, Fall 2025 - 2026

  • Meysam Varasteh, CS Dept, from Fall 2023 - Summer 2024 (co-advised with Robin Burke)

  • Han Zhuang, Graduate Assistant, iSchool, (Fall 2017 - Spring 2023), now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Barabasi Lab, Northeastern University

  • Lizhen Liang, Research Assistant, iSchool, Fall 2018-Spring 2020 as Master’s student, Fall 2020 - Spring 2023 as a Ph.D. student

Visiting scholar1 person
Ph.D. student practica7 people
Master's students30 people
  • Diego Muñoz, Department of Computer Science, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
  • Lin Shi, Department of Computer Science, Spring 2024 - Fall 2024
  • Guanchao (Mike) Wang, Department of Linguistics & CS, Spring 2024 - Summer 2024
  • Tyler Gorman, Department of Computer Science, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
  • Shubham Sati, Department of Computer Science, Spring 2023 - Spring 2024
  • Vinay Ramesh, Department of Computer Science, Fall 2022 - Summer 2023
  • Chao Zhou, Computer Science and Engineering, since Fall 2021 - Spring 2023, back in China
  • Tzu-Yang (Peter) Huang, Faculty Engagement Scholar, iSchool, Fall 2020 - Spring 2022, now a Data Scientist at Amazon
  • Jim Yi, iSchool, Spring 2021 - Fall 2021
  • Hanlin Zhang, Computer Science, Fall 2019 - Spring 2021, now in Ant Group (China)
  • Jian Jian, iSchool, Spring 2020 - Spring 2021, now Data Scientist at DeepCell
  • Rashika Singh, Faculty Engagement Scholar, iSchool, Fall 2019 - Spring 2021
  • Sourabh Ghosh, Faculty Engagement Scholar, iSchool, Fall 2019 - Fall 2020
  • Megha Ramesh Jakhotia, Faculty Engagement Scholar, previously with prof. Yang Wang, Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
  • Ziyue (Alan) Xiang, Computer Science, Fall 2018 - Spring 2020, now Ph.D. student at Purdue University
  • Ananth Raj GV, iSchool, Spring 2019 - Spring 2020, data scientist with Bank of America
  • Omkar Buchade, Computer Science, since Fall 2018 (in Summer 2019 internship with CBS Interactive)
  • Mengyu (Mike) Liu, Computer Science, Fall 2018 - Summer 2019
  • Priya Matnani, iSchool (IM with CAS in Data Science), Faculty Engagement Scholar, Fall 2017 - Spring 2019 (Summer 2018 internship at Airbnb, San Francisco), data scientist at Airbnb
  • Xinxuan Wei, iSchool, Spring 2018 - Spring 2019, data scientist in Shanghai, China
  • Woojin Park, iSchool (Applied Data Science program), Faculty Engagement Scholar, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019, currently at CMU
  • Zexin Yao, Computer Science, Spring 2018 - Spring 2019 (Summer 2018 internship at NetEase Games, Guangzhou City, China) - will be a software engineer for Google starting June, 2019
  • Puzhen (Price) Qian, Computer Science, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
  • Shloak Gupta, iSchool, Fall 2018
  • Kartik Nagre, iSchool, Fall 2016 - Spring 2018, Data Scientist at NewtonX
  • Ziyi Qiu, Computer Engineering, Summer 2017 - Spring 2018, looking for positions in Data Science
  • Shengjun Zhang, MS (2017), iSchool, Bytedance Inc.
  • Zhida Zhao, MS (2017), iSchool, looking for positions in Data Science
  • Manas Sikri, MS (2017), iSchool, Goldman Sachs
  • Shrutik Katchhi, MS (2017), iSchool, Ernst & Young
Undergraduate students3 people
  • Taeheun Lee, iSchool major, since Spring 2022 (SOURCE grant)
  • Chen Qiu, Computer Science major, since Spring 2022 (SOURCE grant)
  • Zachary Tyler Williams, iSchool major, since Fall 2021
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