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 what drives organizations to collaborate in disasters and emergencies, as well as how organizations can effectively communicate with and engage the public during a crisis. As of late, I've been implementing LLMs to accurately code for complex semantic features in texts ranging from organizational reports authored during a large-scale disaster response, to heterogeneous documents collected from Swedish organizations embedded in social-ecological systems.

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