I am Sabrina Mai, PhD,
computational social scientist,
NLP practitioner,
and social network analyst.

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS), a joint initiative between the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) and the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) at Linköping University. Prior to my time at SweCSS, I completed my PhD in Sociology at the University of California - Irvine, receiving formal training as a member of the Networks, Computation, and Social Dynamics Lab and as a Graduate Fellow with the Center for Networks and Relational Analysis. I also hold a Bachelors of Mathematics from the University of Central Florida as a Provost Scholar.

My research analyzes large-scale disaster communications using social network analysis, large language models (LLMs), and mathematical sociology. My aim is to build a better understanding of how organizations can effectively communicate with and engage the public during a crisis, as well what drives organizations to collaborate in a disaster response. As of late, I've been experimenting with both known and novel methods in improving the accuracy of LLMs in coding complex semantic features in text in comparison to human coders.

I invite you to view my curriculum vitae for details on my professional works: