Lindsay (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Deena has also worked as a Senior Research Specialist with the United Nations Development Programme. She has worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on various digital media projects at the Social Media Lab at Ryerson University. After completing her PhD, Deena got certified in data analytics, big data, and predictive analytics from Ryerson University.

Upon her graduation, Deena was awarded the 2017 Outstanding Graduating Student Award from the Canadian Sociological Association for her research that examined Twitter networks of activists during the 2011 Egyptian revolution and how the movement turned from solidarity to schism. While at MAC, she was also a fellow of the Sherman Center for Digital Scholarship.

While at McMaster she was the recipient of the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, a scholarship given to world-class doctoral students who have demonstrated leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement. Her expertise is in social network analysis and digital methods. Her research interests include big data analytics, digital activism, and political sociology. She specializes in computational sociology, data science, and digital media analytics. Deena earned her PhD from McMaster University. Deena Abul-Fottouh is an Assistant Professor in the Human Centered Data Science Concentration at the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto.

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