Contact Information
- 177 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
- Email: dies.s@northeastern.edu
- Phone: (203) 818-1341
- samanthadies.github.io
Education
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, expected
- M.S. in Computer Science, 2026
- Post-Secondary Teaching Certificate, 2025
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
- B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2022
Publications
- Moritz Laber*, Samantha Dies*, Joseph Ehlert*, Brennan Klein, and Tina Eliassi-Rad. Effects of higher-order interactions and homophily on information access inequality. Communications Physics (2026) [pdf]
- Samantha Dies, David Liu, Tina Eliassi-Rad. Forecasting Faculty Placement from Patterns in Co-authorship Networks. EPJ Data Science (2026) [pdf]
Preprints
- Samantha Dies, Courtney Maynard, Germans Savcisens, and Tina Eliassi-Rad. Representational and Behavioral Stability of Truth in Large Language Models. (2025) [pdf]
- Olumide Adisa, Enio Alterman Blay, Yasaman Asgari, Gabriele Di Bona, Samantha Dies, Ana Maria Jaramillo, Paulo H. Resende, and Ana Maria de Sousa Leitao. The Overlooked Need for Ethics in Complexity Science: Why it Matters. (2024) [pdf]
Posters
- Samantha Dies, David Liu, Tina Eliassi-Rad. Forecasting Faculty Placement from Patterns in Co-authorship Networks. The International Conference of Computational Social Science, July 2025.
- Samantha Dies*, Joseph Ehlert*, Mortiz Laber*, and Tina Eliassi-Rad. Higher-Order Network Effects on Information Access Efficiency and Equality. The Graph Exploitation Symposium, July 2024. [pdf]
Talks
Contributed Talks
- TENET: Satellite on Temporal Networks, NetSci 2026. Forecasting Faculty Placement from Temporal Coauthorship Networks. Boston, MA.
Conference Presentations
- NetSci 2025. Higher-order Network Effects on Informaiton Access Equality & Efficiency. Maastricht, the Netherlands.
- CCS 2023. Unraveling the Impact of Co-authorship on Faculty Placement. Bahia, Brazil.
- ACM CAPWIC 2022. Quantifying and Measuring Transparency in Computer Science Research. Online.
- ACM CAPWIC 2021. Social Media as a Driver for Social Change: Analyzing the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter Movements on Twitter. Online.
Teaching Experiencce
Project Coordinator, Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School — Summer 2025
Supervisor: Dave Feldman
Teaching Assistant, Northeastern University
- NETS 7332 / CS 7332: Graph Machine Learning — Fall 2025
Teaching Assistant, Georgetown University
- MATH 140: Introduction to Statistics — Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022
- CS 160: Data Structures — Spring 2021, Fall 2021
- CS 051-052: Computer Science I & II — Spring 2020, Fall 2020
- MATH 137: Multivariable Calculus — Fall 2019
Awards and Honors
- Khoury Fellowship, Northeastern University (September 2022 - August 2023)
- Summa Cum Laude, Georgetown University (May 2022)
- Award for Academic Excellence in Computer Science, Georgetown University (May 2022)
- Pi Sigma Mu (May 2022)
- Sigma Xi (May 2022)
- Phi Beta Kappa (May 2021)
- ACM Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing Best Flashtalk Runner-Up (March 2021)
Service
Reviewing and Program Committees
- NetSci ‘26 Program Committee
- ICWSM ‘24 Program Committee
Conference Organization
- NetSci ‘26 – Satellite Organizer, Ethics in Network Science Research and Practice
Departmental Service
- Ph.D. Open House Volunteer, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University (2023, 2025, 2026)
- Ph.D. Application Reviewer, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University (2023)
Industry Experience
- Data Science Intern, Pitney Bowes (May 2021 - August 2021)
- Data Science Intern, Pitney Bowes (May 2020 - August 2020)
Schools and Workshops
- Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School (June 2024)