Ryan L. Boyd (Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2017) is an Associate Research Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. His research uses computational social science methods to understand how verbal behavior provides clues to how we think, feel, and behave. Dr. Boyd's research spans topics ranging from personality to society, mental health, human sexuality, and storytelling. He has authored dozens of free, open-source text analysis applications for social scientists and is one of the lead scholars behind the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software. Dr. Boyd is on the editorial boards for cross-disciplinary journals, including Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Language and Computation and Frontiers in Social Psychology: Computational Social Science; he is also member of the advisory board for the journal Psychology of Language and Communication.