2026 Karrie Karahalios: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	47	6412	6225	2859	2753	208	10564

Research.com Recognitions

2010 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Karrie Karahalios is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Computer Science and Social Sciences, with specific focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Science Applications, and Signal Processing.

The main topics of Karahalios's work cover a range of interdisciplinary areas: data visualization and analytics, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, ethics and social impacts of AI, mobile crowdsensing and crowdsourcing, social media and politics, misinformation and its impacts, and digital marketing and social media.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Karahalios include Hari Sundaram, Aditya Parameswaran, Motahhare Eslami, Vinay Koshy, and Eshwar Chandrasekharan.

Publication venues where Karahalios has contributed major works include:

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
arXiv (Cornell University)
Communications of the ACM
Foundations and Trends® in Human-Computer Interaction
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Karahalios include:

"Auditing Algorithms: Understanding Algorithmic Systems from the Outside In" (2021), published in Foundations and Trends® in Human-Computer Interaction
"At the End of the Day Facebook Does What It Wants" (2020), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
"Contestability For Content Moderation" (2021), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
"Auditing Race and Gender Discrimination in Online Housing Markets" (2020), published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"StreamSketch" (2021), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Karahalios's research includes analysis and auditing of algorithmic systems, exploration of race and gender discrimination in digital markets, and aspects of content moderation. Their work also addresses challenges related to misinformation and social media politics through computational and sociotechnical approaches.

They were recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2010.

Best Publications

Predicting tie strength with social media

Eric Gilbert;Karrie Karahalios

2019
Citations
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Karrie Karahalios;Andrés Monroy-Hernández;Airi Lampinen;Geraldine Fitzpatrick

871
Citations
"I always assumed that I wasn't really that close to [her]": Reasoning about Invisible Algorithms in News Feeds

Motahhare Eslami;Aimee Rickman;Kristen Vaccaro;Amirhossein Aleyasen

726
Citations
First I "like" it, then I hide it: Folk Theories of Social Feeds

Motahhare Eslami;Karrie Karahalios;Christian Sandvig;Kristen Vaccaro

405
Citations
DataTone: Managing Ambiguity in Natural Language Interfaces for Data Visualization

Tong Gao;Mira Dontcheva;Eytan Adar;Zhicheng Liu

250
Citations
Visualizing conversation

J. Donath;K. Karahalios;F. Viegas

224
Citations
Quantifying Search Bias: Investigating Sources of Bias for Political Searches in Social Media

Juhi Kulshrestha;Motahhare Eslami;Johnnatan Messias;Muhammad Bilal Zafar

215
Citations
Blogs Are Echo Chambers: Blogs Are Echo Chambers

Eric Gilbert;Tony Bergstrom;Kyratso George Karahalios

199
Citations
Communicating Algorithmic Process in Online Behavioral Advertising

Motahhare Eslami;Sneha R. Krishna Kumaran;Christian Sandvig;Karrie Karahalios

196
Citations
The network in the garden: an empirical analysis of social media in rural life

Eric Gilbert;Karrie Karahalios;Christian Sandvig

192
Citations
Conversation Clock: Visualizing audio patterns in co-located groups

T. Bergstrom;K. Karahalios

178
Citations
A path to understanding the effects of algorithm awareness

Kevin Hamilton;Karrie Karahalios;Christian Sandvig;Motahhare Eslami

176
Citations
Effortless data exploration with zenvisage: an expressive and interactive visual analytics system

Tarique Siddiqui;Albert Kim;John Lee;Karrie Karahalios

169
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User Attitudes towards Algorithmic Opacity and Transparency in Online Reviewing Platforms

Motahhare Eslami;Kristen Vaccaro;Min Kyung Lee;Amit Elazari Bar On

158
Citations
VCode and VData: illustrating a new framework for supporting the video annotation workflow

Joey Hagedorn;Joshua Hailpern;Karrie G. Karahalios

157
Citations
When the algorithm itself is a racist: Diagnosing ethical harm in the basic Components of Software

Christian Sandvig;Kevin Hamilton;Karrie Karahalios;Cedric Langbort

145
Citations
Discovery-based games for learning software

Tao Dong;Mira Dontcheva;Diana Joseph;Karrie Karahalios

141
Citations
Automation, Algorithms, and Politics | When the Algorithm Itself is a Racist: Diagnosing Ethical Harm in the Basic Components of Software

Christian Sandvig;Kevin Hamilton;Karrie Karahalios;Cedric Langbort

137
Citations
I-Living: An Open System Architecture for Assisted Living

Qixin Wang;Wook Shin;Xue Liu;Zheng Zeng

135
Citations
The network in the garden: Designing social media for rural life

Eric Gilbert;Karrie Karahalios;Christian Sandvig

132
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Aditya Parameswaran University of California, Berkeley

Eric Gilbert University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Kevin Hamilton University of Hawaii at Manoa

Hari Sundaram University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Brian P. Bailey University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

John D. Lee University of Wisconsin–Madison

Marco Caccamo Technical University of Munich

Darko Marinov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Fernanda B. Viégas Harvard University

Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

External Links

Personal website of Karrie Karahalios Google Scholar page

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