At first glance, Jerry Zhu seems like one of the last people on the UW-Madison campus you?d expect to be engaged in research on bullying. His website explains that he?s an associate professor in the university?s computer sciences department, and that his area of expertise is in machine learning. But Zhu is one of the leaders of a UW-Madison research team that has programmed a computer to scour millions of Twitter posts each day for cases of bullying in a unique, interdisciplinary project designed to compile vast amounts of information on this hot-button topic.
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