Lei Guo, along with PI Margrit Betke and Co-PI Prakash Ishwar, have received a $88,301 Google Faculty Research Award for their work on online political news.
The goal of the project is to develop methods for news aggregators to ensure they present balanced real-time content representing diverse political perspectives to their users – not just left- and/or right-leaning content, but content that samples the full political landscape in the U.S. Dr. Lei Guo will be working with Dr. Margrit Betke from Computer Science and Dr. Prakash Ishwar from Electrical and Computer Engineering and students from different departments at BU including Kate Mays, a Ph.D. student of Emerging Media Studies.