Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for Data Systems and Society (IDSS)

and Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC),

Schwarzman College of Computing

Mentors: Dean Eckles, Ali Jadbabaie, and Thomas W. Malone

2025–Present

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Ph.D., Department of Operations, Information, and Decisions

Decision Processes Track

Committee: Profs. Duncan J. Watts (Advisor/Chair); Abdullah Almaatouq (External Member from MIT); Katherine L. Milkman; and Dean Knox

2021–25

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Visiting Student, MIT Sloan School of Management

Advisor: Prof. Abdullah Almaatouq

Fall 2024

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

M.S., Symbolic Systems

Computer Science + Psychology + Philosophy + Linguistics

Advisors: Profs. Melissa A. Valentine and Michael S. Bernstein

2019–21

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

B.S.H., Computer Science, Honors Program

Human-Computer Interaction Track

Advisor: Prof. Michael S. Bernstein

2016–20

IACM Technology Innovation Award

• Honors a scholar who has made innovative use of technology in research, teaching, or practice in the area of negotiation and conflict management
• Awarded in recognition of the Team Communication Toolkit

2024

Negotiation and Team Resources Institute Grant ($16,000)

2024

George James Travel Award x2 ($1,000, $800)

2023, 2025

Winkelman Fellowship, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

• Awarded to one rising 3rd year PhD student annually who has shown the greatest academic job potential across all departments at Wharton

2023–26

Analytics at Wharton Grant Recipient ($28,832)

• Project Title: “Roadmap to a Better Team: A Solution-Oriented Understanding of Team Processes” [Public Announcement]

2022

Russell Ackoff Doctoral Student Fellowship, Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center

2022

Symbolic Systems Distinguished Teaching Award, Stanford University

• Recipient of inaugural award to recognize outstanding contributions by course staff to the Symbolic Systems program [Public Announcement]

2021

Dean’s Fellowship, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

2021

Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society

• Top 20% of Class at Stanford School of Engineering

2020

Stanford Program on Democracy and the Internet Grant Recipient ($25,000)

2019

Bing Overseas Study Program at Oxford University

2019

Boothe Prize for Excellence in Writing, Stanford University

• One of 6 selected out of 1400+ first-year students

2017

Coca-Cola Scholar

• One of 150 students selected out of 87,000 applicants

2016

United States Presidential Scholar

• One of 160 students selected out of 3 million high school seniors

2016

Rich Talk: How Communication Predicts Cooperative Behavior

Xinlan Emily Hu, Mohammed Alsobay, Jared R. Curhan, and Abdullah Almaatouq.

• Oral Presentation, IC2S2 2025: 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (July 21-24, 2025)
• Symposium Presentation, AOM 2025: the 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (July 25-29, 2025)

2025

The Task Space: An Integrative Framework for Team Research
Xinlan Emily Hu, Mark E. Whiting, Linnea Gandhi, Duncan J. Watts, and Abdullah Almaatouq.

• Oral Presentation, IACM 2023: The 36th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Conflict Management (July 9-12, 2023)
• Oral Presentation, IC2S2 2023: 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science (July 17-20, 2023)
• Oral Presentation, 12th Wharton-INSEAD Doctoral Consortium (November 1-3, 2023)
• Poster Presentation, SJDM 2023: The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting (November 17-20, 2023)
• Oral Presentation, INGroup 2024: Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (July 18-20, 2024)
• Invited Oral Presentation in the Research Lab of Professor Matthew Groh, Department of Management & Organizations, Northwestern University (August 13, 2024)
• Oral Presentation, IC2S2 2025: 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (July 21-24, 2025)

2023–25

AI as Explorer: Quantifying Conversations with Natural Language Processing

Xinlan Emily Hu.

• Program on Negotiation (PON) AI Summit (March 8-9, 2025) [Video]

2025

What you say or how you say it? Predicting Conflict Outcomes in Real and LLM-Generated Conversations.
Priya Ronald D’Costa, Evan Rowbotham, and Xinlan Emily Hu†.
† Senior author; first two authors are student mentees.

• The NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Behavioral Machine Learning (December 14, 2024) [Paper]

2024

Making Robust Inferences from Text Data: LLMs and the Natural Language Processing Toolkit

Xinlan Emily Hu, Sudeep Bhatia, and Michael H. Yeomans.

• Organizer of Special Session at SJDM 2024: The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting (November 25, 2024)

2024

A Flexible Python-Based Toolkit for Analyzing Team Communication
Xinlan Emily Hu.

• Poster Presentation, IC2S2 2024: 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (July 17-20, 2024)
• Symposium Presentation, AOM 2024: the 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (August 9-13, 2024)

2024

Recipe for Success: Quantifying the Relative Influence of Teamwork Facets on Performance.
Xinlan Emily Hu, Abdullah Almaatouq, Mark E. Whiting, and Duncan J. Watts.

• Oral Presentation, ACM Collective Intelligence 2024 (June 26-29, 2024)
• Oral Presentation, IC2S2 2024: 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (July 17-20, 2024)
• Oral Presentation, INGroup 2024: Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (July 18-20, 2024)
• Symposium Presentation, AOM 2024: the 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (August 9-13, 2024)

2024

Saying the Right Thing at the Right Time: An Integrative Study of Communication Using Computational Social Science
Xinlan Emily Hu.

• Poster Presentation, IC2S2 2023: 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science (July 17-20, 2023)
• Oral Presentation, The 4th Annual Rising Scholars Conference (October 25-26, 2023)

2023

Making the Case for Diversity: How Diversity Narratives Influence
Team Performance
Xinlan Emily Hu, Linda W. Chang, and Katherine L. Milkman.

• Oral Presentation, 11th Wharton-INSEAD Doctoral Consortium
  (October 13-14, 2022)
• Poster Presentation, SJDM 2022: The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting (November 10-13, 2022)
• Symposium Presentation, AOM 2023: the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (August 4-8, 2023)
• Rapid-Fire Talk, Diversity in Management and Organizations Conference (September 5, 2023)

2022–23

Predicting and Understanding Team Outcomes Through
Digital Trace Data
Xinlan Emily Hu, Hancheng Cao, and Mark E. Whiting.

• Oral Presentation, IC2S2 2022: 8th International Conference on Computational Social Science (July 19-22, 2022)

2022

A “Distance Matters” Paradox: Facilitating Intra-Team Collaboration Can Harm Inter-Team Collaboration
Xinlan Emily Hu, Rebecca Hinds, Melissa A. Valentine, and Michael S. Bernstein.

• Stanford Symbolic Systems Public Forum (May 17, 2021)
• Guest Lecture for MS&E 184 — Future of Work: Issues in Organizational Learning and Design, Stanford University (May 19, 2021)
• Guest Lecture for Pareto (June 22, 2021)
• Guest Lecture for CS 278 — Social Computing, Stanford University
  (May 4, 2022)
• Oral Presentation, CSCW 2022: The 25th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
  (Nov 8-22, 2022)

2021–22

Can Online Juries Make Consistent, Repeatable Decisions?
Xinlan Emily Hu, Mark E. Whiting, and Michael S. Bernstein.

• Oral Presentation, 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (May 8-13, 2021)
• Oral Presentation, IC2S2 2021: 7th International Conference on Computational Social Science (July 27-31, 2021)

2021

Disarming Loaded Words: Addressing Gender Bias in Political Reporting

Irena Hwang, Dylan Grosz, Xinlan Emily Hu, Anjini Karthik, and Vivian Yang∗.

* Equal contribution.

• Politics Panel, Computation + Journalism Symposium 2021
  (February 19, 2021) [Paper]

2021

Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) Scholars Program: Synergy

• Designer and Leader of a weekly lab themed on “Synergy:” the idea that collections of humans and AI agents can be more than the sum of their parts.
  [More Information on the SERC Scholars Program]

Fall 2025 – Spring 2026

STAT/OIDD 7770 (Introduction to Python for Data Science)

• Teaching Assistant

Spring 2025

OIDD 1010 (Introduction to Operations, Information, and Decisions)

• Teaching Assistant

Fall 2023; Spring 2024

OIDD291, MGMT291, LGST206 (Negotiations)

• Teaching Assistant

Spring 2023

NETS 1120 (A Networked Life)

• Head Teaching Assistant (led 6-member staff)
• Taught “Teams and Organizations” [4.86 / 5.00 rating]

Fall 2022

SYMSYS 200 (Minds and Machines)

• Teaching Assistant

Fall 2020

CS 278 (Social Computing)

• Course Assistant and Designer of Discussion Sections

Spring 2020; Spring 2021

COMM 230A,B,C / CSRE 230C (Digital Civil Society)

• Teaching Assistant

Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

COMM 230X (Digital Civil Society +1 Series)

• Teaching Assistant and Organizer of Speaker Series

Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

CS 110 (Principles of Computer Systems)

• Course Assistant

Winter 2019

President, Wharton Doctoral Council Executive Board

Member, Wharton Doctoral Council Executive Board

• Represented Wharton Doctoral Students’ interests as liaison to the Wharton Doctoral Program office.
• Managed $12,000 budget and 14-member Executive Board.
• Collaborated across departments, schools, and organizations to support diversity and inclusivity initiatives in business academia, advocate for students’ research and funding interests, and voice students’ concerns to improve the graduate student experience.
• Organized events to facilitate greater student interaction.
• Mentored under-represented students applying to graduate school as part of the PhD Project and the Leadership Alliance.

2023–25

2021–25

Co-Chair, ACM Collective Intelligence Doctoral Colloquium 
(June 29, 2024, Boston, MA)

• Organized programming and logistics for the ACM Collective Intelligence Conference’s Inaugural Doctoral Colloquium.

2024

Planning Committee Member, 12th Annual Wharton-INSEAD Doctoral Symposium (November 1-3, 2023, INSEAD Singapore)

• Organized $60K+ budget, paper submission, programming, and logistics for a three-day interdisciplinary forum for Wharton and INSEAD PhD students to present research and foster collaboration.

2023

Director of Budget and Executive Board Member, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA) at the University of Pennsylvania

• Managed GAPSA’s $3M+ budget and the 6-member Budget Committee.
• Created open-source automated procedures to establish financial planning practices, ensure transparent reporting of finances, and equitably distribute resources to Penn’s 12 Graduate Schools, student groups, and advocacy programs.

2022–23

Representative, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA) at the University of Pennsylvania

• Represented Wharton’s doctoral students in GAPSA, the official government body for graduate and professional students at the University of Pennsylvania.

2021–22

President, Stanford Viennese Ball

• Managed $80,000+ budget and 20-member team. Directed logistics and led marketing activities for the largest social dance event in the Stanford community, with 1000+ attendees.

2019–20

Vice President, Stanford AI Group

• Led the Ethics in AI Initiative in Autumn 2019, in partnership with the Stanford Law School.

2018–20

Member-at-Large, American Parliamentary Debate Association

• Elected national representative in the 6-member governing board of all U.S. Parliamentary debate, overseeing 62 universities.
• Led Expansion Committee, responsible for integrating and providing resources to underprivileged debate teams.

2018–19

Associate Product Manager Intern, Google

2020

Program Manager Intern, Microsoft

2019

Explorer Intern (PM + Software Engineer), Microsoft

2018