Rajesh Sharma
Professor of Computer Science and AI at Plaksha University and lead of the Computational Social Science Group. His work explores social behavior at scale—polarization, misinformation, echo chambers, hate speech, and mental health—through modeling, measurement, and intervention design. Learn more →
News
- Travel grant co-chair and DEI co-chair at CODS 2025. CODS 2025
- Paper on "The Confidence Trap: Gender Bias and Predictive Certainty in LLMs" at AAAI 2026.
- Invited talk on Data Science for Social Good at Ashoka University, India.
- Invited Speaker and Panel co-chair for AIML Systems Conference 2025 AIML Systems 2025
- Appointed Program Chair for the CS & AI specialization at Plaksha.
Research Themes
Current projects focus on networked polarization, agent‑based simulations of social change, and data‑driven policy design for safer online ecosystems. Methods span large‑scale measurement, causal inference, and simulation. Read more →