I received my B.S. in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999, and my Ph.D. in Social Psychology and Cognitive Science in 2007 from Indiana University. From 2007–2011, I was a Visiting Scientist at Yahoo! Research in the Human and Social Dynamics group in New York City, at which point I joined Stevens Institute of Technology. My research is focused on crowdsourcing, social networks, and group dynamics. Methodologically, my research spans traditional psychological methods including laboratory experiments, new methods such as online data collection with crowdsourcing, and computer science methods such as data mining.