August 2018: Our paper on using Hidden Markov Models to ascertain user cognitive states was accepted at VIS 2018 Workshop on Machine Learning from User Interactions . Congratulations Mohamad!
August 2018: Our paper on Emotion Detection using CNN+LSTM was accepted at International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2018). Congratulations Malak!
July 2018: Ethan Mines compeleted his REU project on Emotional Natural Language Generation with some exciting new findings. Wish you good luck Ethan!
June 2018: Check out press coverage of our emojis of solidarity work in The Conversation and Wired magazine.
June 2018: Attended ICWSM 2018. Our group had three papers at this conference.
May 2018: This summer I am supervising an NSF REU scholar and Charlotte Research Scholar. Welcome to the lab Ethan Mines and Erfan Al-Hossami!.
March 23 2018: Joined a panel discussion at the CMU CASOS group with Dr. Kathleen Carley and colleagues in Computational Social Science.
March 22 2018: I am giving an invited talk at Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute.
March 21 2018: I gave an invited talk at the Analytics Frontiers Conference.
February 2018: I was interviewed by Heather Freeman for her documentary on Social Bots and Witch's Familiars! Watch out for the film Winter 2019. So exciting!!
February 2018: Our team won 3rd place in Arabic Emotion detection at SemEval-2018. Congrats Malak!
February 2018: I will give a talk at the UNCC Complex Systems Institute on work related to Solidarity Detection from Social Media text.
January 2018: I will be on a panel speaking about Artificial Intelligence at Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association in Charlotte.
December 2017: First student graduated from my lab! Prasanna Lalingkar (MS 2017) now at Microsoft Research!
August 2017: Story about press coverage and recent work appeared on College department webpage
August 2017: Press coverage of my work in Digital Trends magazine and Motherboard
July 2017: Talk at The Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics 2017 conference in Los Angeles, CA.
June 2017: Received seed funding for project on Modeling Emotion Contagion and Persuasion in Big Data from the Charlotte Research Institute
May 2017: Selected as 2017-2018 Data Fellow by National Data Science Consortium
April 2017: Paper on Social Distance in Language accepted at the The 3rd Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science.
March 2017: Paper on Emotion Classification accepted at the Symposia held by Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour.
February 2017: Received funding from the UNC Faculty Research Grants office.
January 2017: Received funding from the College of Computing and Information - Innovation Fund!
December 2016: Selected to be an NSF panelist for 2017
November 2016: Our tweet analysis work in press here and here!
November 2016: Traveled to EMNLP 2016 at Austin, TX.
October 2016: Became an affiliate member of Project Mosiac.
September 2016: Our tweet analysis paper is Best Paper Nominee at AHFE 2016.
August 2016: Start work at UNCC.
July 2016: Successful Defense of Thesis! Officially Dr. Shaikh.