Koustuv Saha
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · United States
UIUC HCI and social computing researcher: trust in AI advice, online mental health support, and AI companion well-being
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works · OpenAlex
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h-index · OpenAlex
Bibliometric figures come from OpenAlex (2026-10-17) and cover the author's entire public record, not just the papers listed here. Reproducibility signal comes from Evolve's own reviews.
Research profile
Output—
This axis would measure publication volume and productivity over time. The current OpenAlex snapshot lacks a year-by-year output series sufficient to score it, so no output score is given; the visible records cover only a single recent period rather than a full career trajectory.
Impact—
This axis would measure citations, h-index trajectory, and scholarly uptake of the work. The snapshot reports h-index 1 and i10-index 0 — too thin, and possibly lagged by name resolution, to support a fair impact score — so the axis is left unscored rather than estimated.
Focus0/100
The focus axis scores at the bottom of the scale, consistent with a field distribution split exactly one third each across HCI/computational social science, human-AI decision making, and HCI/social computing. Topic counts reinforce this breadth: ethics and social impacts of AI (6), innovative human-technology interaction (4), and topic modeling, information retrieval, and decision-making (2 each). The portfolio is deliberately interdisciplinary rather than concentrated in a single subfield.
Collaboration65/100
The collaboration dimension scores 65, backed by 25 distinct coauthors in the recent OpenAlex record. Authorship roles alternate: last author on the FinAInce trust experiment and PeerPen, middle author on the larger cross-platform AI-companion disruption team. This suggests a mix of leading small HCI studies and contributing to group projects with collaborators such as Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Talayeh Aledavood, Renwen Zhang, and Daniel Kang.
Activity83/100
This is the strongest dimension at 83. The OpenAlex record lists 16 works in the last three years, and the only year given in the counts-by-year series — 2026 — already shows 16 publications, all appearing as arXiv preprints in this catalog. Such a concentrated burst indicates a highly productive current period, though single-year coverage prevents judging longer-term cadence.
Reproducibility32/100
Reproducibility scores 32, the mean over three assessed papers. Evolve rates the preregistered FinAInce experiment (N=285) and the PeerPen interview study as low reproducibility readiness, and the Bayesian interrupted time-series companion-disruption analysis as medium. Methodologically rigorous designs — preregistration, hierarchical Bayesian modeling — coexist with artifacts that are hard to replicate, such as interview corpora and proprietary platform data.
Research summary
Koustuv Saha is a researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign whose work sits at the intersection of human-computer interaction, computational social science, and social computing. The OpenAlex-derived field distribution splits evenly across three clusters — HCI/computational social science, human-AI decision making, and HCI/social computing — reflecting a portfolio that studies how people judge and rely on AI systems and how AI reshapes online communities. Recent cataloged papers include a preregistered experiment (N=285) showing that the style of AI-mediated financial advice matters more than source labels for trust and intended reliance; a cross-platform interrupted time-series analysis linking AI companion disruptions to increased anxiety, stress, and suicidal expression on Reddit; and PeerPen, an interview study (n=15) of AI-assisted writing in online mental health peer support that finds reduced writing effort but tensions over authorship and community trust. A fourth 2026 paper applies an evidence-linked multi-agent workflow to oncology feature extraction for tumor boards. The OpenAlex record lists 16 works in the last three years and 25 distinct coauthors, with topic weight concentrated in ethics and social impacts of AI (6) and innovative human-technology interaction (4). Citation indicators (h-index 1, i10-index 0) point to an early-stage profile, and the output and impact dimensions remain unscored.
Collaboration pattern
Saha's recent record lists 25 distinct coauthors (collaboration score 65). Recurring names include Yunhao Yuan, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Soorya Ram Shimgekar, Chau Do, Renwen Zhang, Talayeh Aledavood, Aryan Ramchandra Kapadia, Daniel Kang, Michelle Hu, Shayan Vassef, and Yufan Wang. Authorship patterns alternate between last-author leadership on HCI studies (FinAInce, PeerPen) and middle-author contributions to larger quantitative team projects, consistent with a hub role across several small working groups rather than a single lab.
Research keywords
Highlights
Advice style beats source labels in judging AI financial advice
AI companion disruptions linked to psychosocial distress spikes
PeerPen probes AI-assisted writing in mental health peer support
Timeline
- 2026Last-author preregistered experiment (N=285) on how AI-mediated financial advice is judged appears as an arXiv preprint.
- 2026Co-authors a cross-platform Bayesian interrupted time-series study linking AI companion disruptions to psychosocial distress on Reddit.
- 2026Last-author PeerPen interview study (n=15) examines AI-assisted writing in online mental health peer support.
- 2026Contributes to an evidence-linked multi-agent workflow paper for oncology feature extraction in tumor boards.
Papers in the Evolve catalog
Frequent co-authors
About this profile
This profile is AI-structured by Evolve.Pub from public bibliographic data (OpenAlex) and Evolve's own paper reviews. It is not written or endorsed by the researcher unless the profile is claimed. Radar dimensions are computed from real bibliometrics with fixed formulas — raw figures are shown alongside; missing dimensions mean insufficient data, never zero. Errors? Claim the profile to correct or hide it.
- Bibliometrics come from an OpenAlex snapshot only; no ORCID is linked, so name-resolution error is possible and citation counts may lag recent work.
- The output and impact dimensions are unscored because the underlying citation data is insufficient in the current snapshot.
- Only three of four cataloged papers carry an Evolve review; the oncology multi-agent workflow paper has no verdict, keywords, or reproducibility rating yet.
- All four cataloged papers are 2026 arXiv preprints; peer-reviewed venue acceptance is not reflected in this data.
