Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil is an associate professor in the information science department at Cornell University. His research aims at developing computational methods that can lead to a better understanding of our conversational practices, supporting tools that can improve the way we communicate with each other. He is the recipient of several awards—including an NSF CAREER Award, the ICWSM 2025 test of time award, the WWW 2013 Best Paper Award, a CSCW 2017 Best Paper Award, and two Google Faculty Research Awards—and his work has been featured in popular media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, NBC's The Today Show, NPR and the New York Times.
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Keynote at the NLP for Positive Impact Workshop
Upcoming
Invited talk at the UW Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Invited talk at the Max Planck Institute's AICS Distinguished Speaker Colloquium
Vision talk at the Dagstuhl NLP for Mental Health seminar
Discussed approaches for providing proactive conversational support to Mental Health practitioners. Among other advances, this requires detecting in real time when a conversation reaches a pivotal moment.
Dagstuhl, September 3, 2025
ICWSM 2025 Test of Time Award
Received the Test of Time Award at ICWSM 2025 for our work on antisocial behavior in online communities.
Copenhagen, June 25, 2025.
Invited talk at the Ludwig Maximilian University
ConvoKit 3.4 Release
Added new forecasting models and more streamlined LLM integration.
Keynote at ACL Workshop on Human-Centered Large Language Modeling
ConvoWizard Featured on NPR
NPR interview on our ConvoWizard tool for helping people avoid escalation
Teaching
Contact
Office hours: you can make an appointment here
Cornell University
Gates Hall Room 209
Ithaca, NY 14853
USA