Sabina Tomkins
Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information and Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research
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Sabina Tomkins joined UMSI as assistant professor in Fall 2021. Her research applies computational methods to advance understanding in policy relevant domains. Her methods interests include responsible AI, survey design, and causal inference, and she currently works in the domains of computational sustainability, political science, and education policy. She is also an affiliate of the Center for Political Studies.
- Van Berkel, Derek, Gautam, Nilay, Carter, Neil H., Di Minin, Enrico, Zhang, Yifei, Mei, Hongfei, Yin, Sally, Sabina Tomkins. 2026. YouTube content on wildlife engages audiences but rarely drives meaningful conservation action. Communications Sustainability 1:26.
- Maxwell Woody, Sally Yin, Antara Green, Christian Hitt, Alexander Liu, Sabina Tomkins, Gregory A Keoleian. 2026. Total cost of ownership of electric and gasoline used vehicles. Environmental Research Letters 21(2):024022.
- Jason Yan, Kerri Milita, Yanna Krupnikov, Sabina Tomkins. 2025. What Do You Learn About Hard News from Soft News Outlets - A Case Study from People Magazine Online. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 19:2089-2105.
- Ge, Chang, Zhang, Justine, Xu, Haufei, Yanna Krupnikov, Bednar, Jenna, Sabina Tomkins. 2025. What does the public want their local government to hear? A data-driven case study of public comments across the state of Michigan. ArXiv
- Sabina Tomkins, Isley, S, London, B., Getoor, L.. 2025. Sustainability at scale. Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems :214-218.
- Grossman, Joshua, Sabina Tomkins, Page, Lindsay, Goel, Sharad. 2024. The disparate impacts of college admissions policies on Asian American applicants. Scientific Reports 14(1):1-10.
- Fox, Nathan, Di Minin, Enrico, Carter, Neil, Sabina Tomkins, Van Berkel, Derek. 2024. Artificial Intelligence and Crowdsourced Social Media Data for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation. Advancements in Architectural, Engineering, and Construction Research and Practice :43-50.
- Tong Lin, Jason Yan, David Jurgens, Sabina Tomkins. 2024. Tab2Text - A framework for deep learning with tabular data. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 :12925-12935.
- Sabina Tomkins, Joshua Grossman, Lindsay Page, Sharad Goel. 2023. Showing high-achieving college applicants past admissions outcomes increases undermatching. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(45):e2306017120.
- Joshua Grossman, Sabina Tomkins, Lindsay C. Page, Sharad Goel. 2023. The Disparate Impacts of College Admissions Policies on Asian American Applicants.