
Sohan Dsouza
Consultant | Visiting Researcher
(independent) | Max Planck Institute for Human Development
About me
Sohan Dsouza is solving discovery, veracity, and mobilisation problems using a combination of information technology, social science, and digital investigation.
Sohan's academic research background, primarily in computational social science, includes studies of crowdsourcing, strategic cooperation, incentive mechanisms, social mobilisation, AI ethics, and computer-mediated negotiation. He investigates disinformation, polarisation, and AI-powered deception, also examining their implications for platform design and policy. He is a practitioner of open-source intelligence (OSINT) towards identifying and mapping covert influence operations and misinformation spread online, and is a Visiting Researcher on the subject with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. He additionally brings extensive software tech experience from industry.
Sohan's formal education spans Computer Information Systems (BS), IT Management (MBA/PGDM), Informatics (MSc), and Media Arts and Sciences (SM). His research has been published in Nature, PNAS, Transport, and IEEE intelligent Systems. His work has been covered by the BBC, RTÉ, AFP, NPR, New York Times, New Scientist, Scientific American, and Associated Press.
Sohan's academic research background, primarily in computational social science, includes studies of crowdsourcing, strategic cooperation, incentive mechanisms, social mobilisation, AI ethics, and computer-mediated negotiation. He investigates disinformation, polarisation, and AI-powered deception, also examining their implications for platform design and policy. He is a practitioner of open-source intelligence (OSINT) towards identifying and mapping covert influence operations and misinformation spread online, and is a Visiting Researcher on the subject with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. He additionally brings extensive software tech experience from industry.
Sohan's formal education spans Computer Information Systems (BS), IT Management (MBA/PGDM), Informatics (MSc), and Media Arts and Sciences (SM). His research has been published in Nature, PNAS, Transport, and IEEE intelligent Systems. His work has been covered by the BBC, RTÉ, AFP, NPR, New York Times, New Scientist, Scientific American, and Associated Press.
Looking for
Strategising on regulation for platform transparency, interoperability, and researcher/investigator data access
Collaboration to identify and expose covert influence operations, monetised grifter networks, and scams online
Opportunities for work in investigation and research towards mitigating information disorder
Collaboration to identify and expose covert influence operations, monetised grifter networks, and scams online
Opportunities for work in investigation and research towards mitigating information disorder
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