News


  1. • I was on BBC to talk about political bots
  2. • My Lab is presenting two full papers at CSCW'18 in NYC!
  3. • Invited to be a Keynote Speaker at the Mexican CHI Conference October 30th!
  4. • I was invited to give a talk in DC on Disinformation in Democratic Societies with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in conjunction with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) for September 11th.
  5. • My lab is presenting on how political trolls operate at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
  6. • My lab will be presenting our research on skill growth in crowd work at the ACM Collective Intelligence Conference
  7. • My 3 PhD Students were awarded scholarships to attend and present at the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP'18) Doctoral Consortium!
  8. • My lab is participating at a panel in RightsCon with the National Democratic Institute (NDI)
  9. • Talk at Mexico's Lab for the City on using AI for democracy and public life.
  10. • Organizing the IBM Watson Symposium at WVU to make AI more accessible for everybody, especially rural areas.
  11. • Our research on Crowd Workers' earnings won an honorable mention at CHI'18!
  12. • I will participate in a panel at the Aspen Institute on Digital Manipulation, Misinformation in the 2018 Mexican Presidential Election.
  13. • Invited to give a talk on Disinformation at the Atlantic Council!
  14. • Our blockchain based systems for helping immigrants was featured in Fortune Mexico!
  15. • Our lab had 2 full papers and one poster paper at CHI'18! Great Job HCI at WVU!
  16. • The Atlantic covered our research on Crowd Workers and their hourly wages.
  17. • Our research on detecting and counter-attacking online radicalization was selected for DOD funding conference.
  18. • Gave talk to LATAM presidencies about our blockchain based research to enable more transparent collaborations between goverments and citizens.
  19. • Honored to be named J. Wayne and Kathy Richards Faculty Fellow in Engineering.
  20. • Collaborating with the Presidency of Mexico, on Blockchain and Civic Tech!
  21. • Program Committee Member of CSCW'18
  22. • Invited Speaker with the National Democratic Institute on Disinformation and Fake News!
  23. • News Article on Political Trolls at the Conversation!
  24. • Invited Speaker at the California Consensus on Peace through Technology (CalCon)!
  25. • The Huffington Post covered our research on Online Bots, Harrasment, and Gaiming!
  26. • The Washington Post covered our research on bots and Activism!