What's New
- [11/13/2023] 🔥 Check out our latest exploration on GPT-4V(ision) for social multimedia analysis tasks including sentiment analysis, hate speech detection, fake news identification, demographic inference, and ideology detection!
- [07/13/2023] In our new studies (ICWSM 2024, ICWSMW 2023), we uncover media bias in 1.8 million headlines across the political spectrum. Our findings suggest that media bias is growing. The work is also covered by StudyFinds, and shared by ScienceBlog, RealClearScience, Nation, Mirage.News, Phys.org, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) via EurekAlert!
- [03/21/2023] Our survey entitled Human Behavior in the Time of COVID-19: Learning from Big Data, is accepted for publication in the Horizons in Big Data 2022 article collection of Frontiers in Big Data.
- [03/09/2023] I was awarded the 2023 Arts, Sciences and Engineering Donald M. and Janet C. Barnard Fellowship. 🎉🎉
- [03/25/2022] Our study on the scale and scope of the influence of misinformation and fact-based news about COVID-19 vaccines on social media platforms on the vaccine uptake is covered by multiple news outlets including Medical Economics, News Medical, News Wise, UK Today News, and Medical Xpress.
- [07/06/2021] I received the Graduate Student Scholarship of SBP-BRiMS 2021.
- [05/19/2021] In a new study, we dissect the public responses to the #StopAsianHate movement using large scale Twitter data and provide findings that can help design better ways of reducing tension and misunderstandings between ethnic groups. The work is also covered by Rochester Beacon and Futurity.
- [08/12/2020] We won the first place of the University of Rochester Biomedical Data Science Hackathon Summer 2020.
- [07/23/2020] Tech Xplore reports a series of our recent studies that show Twitter mirrors our attitudes and feelings about COVID-19. These findings are shared in a lightning presentation for chairs of computer science PhD-granting departments and heads of major industrial research labs at the Computing Research Association (CRA) Virtual Conference.
- [05/30/2020] Our work on analyzing the use of controversial terms of COVID-19 on Twitter is highlighted by IEEE Spectrum, the flagship magazine and website of the IEEE. Incidentally, this story shares the headlines with the story about the successful launch of the SpaceX Dragon 2 spacecraft. Cool! This work is also covered by Tech Xplore.
- [03/26/2020] Our work on analyzing the performance of the crowdfunding campaigns on GoFundMe over a wide variety of funding categories is covered by The New York Times.
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