Meena Nagarajan

Meena Nagarajan, 28, of Chennai, India, is a graduate student in computer science who is doing research with the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis). Nagarajan is investigating how people are using online social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter. She studies what people are talking about online, their choice of words, and their motivations for sharing information. She believes her work will help understand the dynamics of online human behavior and build systems that enrich online experiences for users. “As a community, we have only scratched the surface in terms of understanding microlevel nuances of user-generated online content,” she said. “What you can do with such an understanding of the pulse of a populace on practically any subject matter is simply exciting.”