Ritika Pandey
Applied ML / NLP Research Scientist
My research lies at the intersection of machine learning, network analysis, and natural language processing, aimed at social harm and criminal justice applications. As a Research Associate Professor at Boston College School of Social Work, I lead technical development on the Gateway Initiative, a partnership with the school and Massachusetts’s Gateway Cities to build dashboards and analytical tools from publicly available data for community and government partners.
Education
Advisors: Dr. George Mohler, Dr. James Hill
Dissertation: “Rewiring police officer training networks to reduce forecasted use of force”
Advisor: Dr. George Mohler
Thesis: “Text mining for social harm and criminal justice applications”
Experience
Research Assistant Professor Boston College, School of Social Work · Chestnut Hill, MA
Summer 2022 Data Science Intern, R&D Roche Diabetes Care · Indianapolis, IN
Teaching
Fall 2026 Adjunct Professor Messina College, Boston College · Brookline, MA
MCCS 1137, Introduction to R for Data Science
CSCI 54900 Intelligent Systems (Fall 2019, Fall 2021) · CSCI 44300 Database Systems (Fall 2022) · CSCI 48900 Data Science (Spring 2019) · CSCI 36300 Principles of Software Design (Fall 2019) · CSCI 36200 Data Structures (Fall 2018)
Publications
R. Pandey, J. Carter, J. Hill, G. Mohler. “Rewiring police officer training networks to reduce forecasted use of force.” ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2023. doi.org/10.1145/3580305.3599899
R. Pandey, P.J. Brantingham, C.D. Uchida, G. Mohler. “Building knowledge graphs of homicide investigation chronologies.” IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, Sorrento, Italy, 2020. doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW51313.2020.00115
J. Lu, S. Sridhar, R. Pandey, M. Al Hasan, G. Mohler. “Investigating transitions into drug addiction through text mining of Reddit data.” Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, 2019. doi.org/10.1145/3292500.3330737
J. Lu, S. Sridhar, R. Pandey, M. Al Hasan, G. Mohler. “Redditors in recovery: text mining Reddit to investigate transitions into drug addiction.” IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2018. arXiv:1903.04081
R. Pandey, G. Mohler. “Evaluation of crime topic models: topic coherence vs. spatial crime concentration.” IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Miami, FL, 2018. doi.org/10.1109/ISI.2018.8587384