One of my areas of interest is the intersection of machine learning and social work:

• Eric Rice has used ML to improve homelessness matching for youth in LA to improve racialized outcomes, design better HIV intervention strategies, and many other work
• Desmond Patton has used NLP to understand how gang-related violence is incubated on social media (tensions build on social media and eventually result in real life drive-by shootings).
• In general, Harnessing the power of technology for good is one of the 13 Grand Challenges for Social Work, so there's a lot of emerging work on using data to have more empirically driven social work practices.