LANGUAGE · AGENTS · NETWORKS

Information Programme Center, DSTA, Singapore

We study how language, artificial agents, and networked structures co-produce influence, deception, and collective behavior online; and build the tools to detect, simulate, and govern it.

Projects

Full list of publications on Google Scholar

DOTA: Design Of The Agents

What are agents? How can we detect them?
How do they interact with and influence humans and each other? How can we design and model realistic agents?
How can humans influence agents?

• Bots, Bias, and Influence: The Hidden Architects of Social Media
  Ng, Carley. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2026)
• Botbuster: Multi-platform bot detection using a mixture of experts
  Ng, Carley. AAAI ICWSM 17: 686–697 (2023)
• Pro or anti? A social influence model of online stance flipping
  Ng, Carley. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering 10(1): 3–19 (2022)

STARCRAFT: Social Topology & Agent Relationships: Computational Research Architecture & Framework Toolkit

Can we design realistic agentic social simulations?
Can agentic social simulations replicate relevant social theories?
How do we validate and measure our agentic social simulations?

• AuraSight: Generating Realistic Social Media Data
  Ng, Kang, Carley. Tech. Report CMU-S3D-25-109, Carnegie Mellon University (2025)
• BotSim: Mitigating the Formation of Conspiratorial Societies with Useful Bots
  Ng, Carley. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS) 29(1): 4 (2026)
• A Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Social Systems
  Ng, Cruickshank, Lim, Carley. arXiv:2605.07069 (2026)
• Are LLM-Powered Social Media Bots Realistic?
  Ng, Carley. SBP-BRiMS pp. 14–23, Springer (2025)

MINEcraft: Measuring Information & Network Emergence

How do we measure and compare networked structures?
How do we detect and analyze coordinated/ coincidental narratives?
How do we design interventions for each stage of narrative movement?

• Combined Synchronization Index
  Ng, Carley. Applied Network Science 8, 1 (2023)
• Coordinating Narratives Framework for cross-platform analysis in the 2021 US Capitol riots
  Ng, Cruickshank, Carley. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (2022)
• Star Network Motifs on X During COVID-19
  Ng, Carley. SBP-BRiMS pp. 193–202, Springer (2025)