id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt c821gh9697t Aastha Nigam Beyond Who and What: Data Driven Approaches for User Behavior Modeling 1904 .txt text/plain 254 12 31 To that end, the goal of this dissertation is to design data driven, context aware and user centered computational models that help us to understand, analyze, model and infer a range of individual and collective human behavior aspects from preference to engagement; from personality traits to political behaviors; from public opinion to relationship formation. Human behavior is highly complex and dependent on the interplay of various intrinsic and extrinsic variables making its study extremely challenging. cache/c821gh9697t.txt txt/c821gh9697t.txt