Greta Brown

Computer Science Graduate Student, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

brow6802 [AT] umn.edu

Bio

My research develops tools for analyzing large-scale social data, aiming to provide a better understanding of social structure and behaviors online while also impacting the design of digital social systems. My recent work has focused on social media algorithms [ArXiv'24, JOTS'23], reducing political polarization online [ICWSM'22a, ICWSM'22b, WSDM'21, WWW'18], improving the health of online conversations [WWW'21, CSCW'21], and causal inference in social systems [ICML'24, NeurIPS'23, KDD'17, Biometrika'19]. My research often falls at the intersections of Social Networks, Machine Learning, and Causal Inference.

I'm an Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. Before joining UW, I was a Postdoc at Stanford University, mentored by Johan Ugander. I received my Ph.D. from MIT in 2020 under the supervision of Deb Roy. Prior to coming to MIT, I spent one year in Paris and one year in Barcelona doing a M.Sc. in Data mining and Knowledge Management. I got my B.Sc. from Staffordshire University with First Class honors in Computer Science. Throughout my graduate studies, I spent several summers doing internships in industry, including Yahoo! Labs, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

Publications

Most recent publications on Google Scholar.
‡ indicates equal contribution.

Model-Free Subsurface Anomaly Detection using Subspace Analysis Techniques for Sparse Telemetry for Extraterrestrial Drilling Robots

S. Boelter, G. Brown, E. Temesgen, L. Weber, T. Stucky, B. Glass, M. Gini

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026.

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Diagnostics for Drilling Fault Prediction in Planetary Drills

S. Boelter, G. Brown, T. Stucky, E. Forberger, G. Wilson, M. Gini, B. Glass

9th International Symposium on Ice Drilling Technology, 2025.

Paper

A Concept for Planetary Drilling Autonomy

S. Boelter, E. Temesgen, G. Brown, M. Jerez, E. Forberger, B. Glass, M. Gini

ICRA Workshop on Field Robotics, 2025

Paper

Geofenced Unmanned Aerial Robotic Defender for Deer Detection and Deterrence (GUARD)

E. Temesgen, M. Jerez, G. Brown, G. Wilson, S. Divakarla, S. Boelter, O. Nelson, R. McPherson, M. Gini

ICRA Workshop on Novel Approaches for Precision Agriculture and Forestry with Autonomous Robots, 2025.

Paper

Vitæ

Full Resume in PDF.

Website Design

Since I made this website, many people have found this Jekyll template useful [ ]. You can find all the code needed to build your website in this GitHub repo. Feel free to use it.
If you end up using it, please link to here and drop me an email. I'm always happy to see people using it.
Greta Brown
brow6802 [AT] umn.edu