Yulin Hswen

Dr. Hswen earned a Doctoral Degree in social and computational epidemiology from Harvard University, where their work focused on integrating computational methods with population health research.

Dr. Hswen’s research centers on social and computational epidemiology, with an emphasis on identifying authentic attitudes, feelings, and beliefs that influence behaviors and shape population health. By collecting unconventional and “underground” data from online social networks, Dr. Hswen captures unfiltered conversations to uncover the complex connections between social experiences and health outcomes.

Dr. Hswen is also the Founder and Principal Investigator of Covidseeker.com, an innovative platform that captures geospatial-temporal data from smartphones to better understand the relationship between human mobility and infectious disease risk. Through this work, Dr. Hswen advances new methods for leveraging real-world digital data to inform public health interventions and policy.