Soham De

Soham De

PhD student at UW

sohamde[AT]uw.edu

About Me

I’m a PhD student at the University of Washington advised by Martin Saveski, a Research Scientist Intern at Meta (FAIR) under Smitha Milli and Max Nickel and a research affiliate at MIT. My research interests are broadly within Computational Social Science, and span several topics including pluralistic alignment, scalable oversight and algorithms with pro-social objectives. Previously, I interned at Microsoft Research India and at the University of Michigan under Joyojeet Pal. I graduated magna cum laude from Ashoka University with a Gold Medal in Computer Science. Beyond academics, I’m a competent artist, photographer, archer and an incompetent pianist.

If you’re interested in my research (and even if you aren’t) let’s chat 💬, get coffee ☕ and/or hike up a mountain ⛰️!

Recent Research View all

Scaling Human Judgment in Community Notes with LLMs

Haiwen Li, Soham De, Manon Revel, Andreas Haupt, Brad Miller, Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter, Martin Saveski, and Michiel A. Bakker

arXiv (under submission). 2025

Supernotes: Driving Consensus in Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking

Soham De, Michiel A. Bakker, Jay Baxter, and Martin Saveski

The ACM Web Conference. 2025

Recent News View all

2025-06-02

I’ll be in New York City till mid September, interning with the FAIR Alignment team at Meta. If you’re in the area, let’s catch up!

2025-04-26

Heading to Sydney, AUS to present the Supernotes paper at WWW’25.

2025-04-05

In UMSI, organising the 5th International conference on Social Media and Society in India. This is my 4th year of involvement with this conference.

Teaching & Service View all

I serve as a reviewer and/or PC member for CHI, CSCW, WWW, ICWSM, CACM and IC2S2. I co-organise the Social Media and Society in India conference annually, where I also chair the student session. I’m a teaching assistant for IMT 573: Data Science I taught by Martin Saveski (usually, every Autumn quarter). Amelia and I are the Social Co-Chairs for the Doctoral Students’ Association at the iSchool.

I “vibe-coded” this website in a weekend drawing inspiration from Martin Saveski, Deedy Das and The MIT Visualization Group. Feel free to fork it here!