Hiroki Oda is a doctoral student at USC Annenberg, where his research interests lie in computational social science. His research focuses on human–machine interaction, particularly the role of algorithms and artificial agents in social networks, online communities, and organizations. Specifically, he studies how artificial agents in organizations reshape communication, network structures, and collective outcomes. To examine these questions, he draws on experiments, social network analysis, and causal inference. 
 
Before USC, Hiroki was a research assistant at the HUMANET Lab at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he worked on a field experiment studying social influence and behavioral contagion involving bots, and a data scientist at EY, where he worked on causal inference projects. He holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Tokyo and an MSc in Applied Social Data Science from LSE.