News Archive
COVID-19 Vaccine and Social Media in the U.S.: Exploring Emotions and Discussions on Twitter was published in Vaccines.
Automatic Categorization of LGBT User Profiles on Twitter with Machine Learning was published in Electronics.
A Systematic Literature Review of Sexual Harassment Studies with Text Mining was published in Sustainability.
Analysis of Geotagging Behavior: Do Geotagged Users Represent the Twitter Population? was published in the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.
Investigating Diseases and Chemicals in COVID-19 Literature with Text Mining was published in the International Journal of Information Management Data Insights.
Analysis of Social Media Discussions on (#)Diet by Blue, Red, and Swing States in the U.S. was published in Healthcare.
Identifying and Analyzing Health-Related Themes in Disinformation Shared by Conservative and Liberal Russian Trolls on Twitter was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Selected as the UofSC College of Information and Communications Raising Star in 2020.
3 papers, 2 posters, and 1 workshop were presented at the ASIST 2020.
Selected as the Chair-Elect of the ASIS&T Social Media Interest Group (SIG SM).
"Exploring research trends in big data across disciplines: A text mining analysis" was published in the Journal of Information Science.
"Dietary pattern recognition on Twitter: a case example of before, during, and after four natural disasters" was published in the Natural Hazards.
Awarded the USC COVID-19 Initiative grant with Dr. Melissa Nolan to Explore Diseases and Chemicals in COVID-19 Scholarly Articles with Data Science Techniques.
"Digital nomads, coworking, and other expressions of mobile work on Twitter" was published in the First Monday.
"Unwanted advances in higher education: Uncovering sexual harassment experiences in academia with text mining" was published in the Information Processing & Management.
"Application of fuzzy clustering for text data dimensionality reduction" was published in the International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining.
Awarded the University of South Carolina Excellence Initiative grant to develop "Big Data Health Science Center."
Awarded the University of South Carolina College of Information and Communications Internal Grant for "Detecting and Characterizing Health Posts of Malicious Actors on Twitter."
Awarded the University of South Carolina ASPIRE grant for "Understand the Role of Emotions in Disaster Communication: A Computational Analysis."
Hidden in plain sight for too long: Using text mining techniques to shine a light on workplace sexism and sexual harassment with Dr. Suzanne Swan was published in the Psychology of Violence.
Exploring diseases and syndromes in neurology case reports from 1955 to 2017 with text mining with Dr. Mehdi Ghasemi, Dr. Souvik Sen, Marcos Moraes & Vishal Shah was published in the Computers in Biology and Medicine.
Wearable activity trackers, accuracy, adoption, acceptance and health impact: A systematic literature review with Dr. Jarrahi was published in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
Twitter Speaks: A Case Of National Disaster Situational Awareness with Vishal, Amit, and Dr. Vaezi was published in the Journal of Information Science
1 paper, 1 poster, and 1 workshop were accepted at the iConference 2019.
My latest interview: CIC Faculty Focus.
Frank was awarded his third grant from the honors college.
George joins the Department of Public Health Sciences at UNC Charlotte as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor.
One paper about the computational analysis of insurance online reviews was accepted at the sbp-brims 2018 with Noelle.
Marcos got a software developer position @World Acceptance Corporation.
Rachana got a software engineer intern position @Express Scripts.
Three Paper presentations and one panel session were accepted to the 2018 ASIST with Frank, Vanessa, Ehsan, and Matt.
Harshini got an internship position @ACI Worldwide.
Awarded an ASPIRE grant, "Knowledge Discovery in Sexual Discrimination and Harassment Experiences", with Suzanne.
Three poster presentations with three awards at the 2018 USC Discovery Day with Frank, Noelle, Vanessa, and Suzanne.
Frank and Matt pretend @SAIS 2018: applications of Twitter data for library and health issues of gay users.
Published "Mining Public Opinion about Economic Issues: Twitter and the U.S. Presidential Election" in the International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences.
Presented "Taming Wild High Dimensional Text Data with a Fuzzy Lash" paper in the 2017 ICDM.
Frank, Aida, and Natalie won one of the four prizes in the Queen City Hackathon for data science.
For the third year in a row, one of my honors students, Noelle, was awarded the USC Honors College SURF grant under my supervision.
For the second year in a row, one of my students, Noelle, was selected as a 2017 CRA-W GHC Research Scholar.
Twitter dataset for "Characterizing Diabetes, Diet, Exercise, and Obesity on Twitter" paper is now available on Lab's GitHub.
Selected as one of the technical committee members for International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security.
"Characterizing Diabetes, Diet, Exercise, and Obesity on Twitter" was accepted for the International Journal of Information Management.
George's dissertation was selected for the AMCIS 2017 Doctoral Consortium.
Siva got an internship from Astellas Pharma for Summer 2017.
FLSA topic modeling tool for "Fuzzy Approach Topic Modeling for Health and Medical Corpora" paper is now available on Lab's GitHub.
The Twitter dataset for "Fuzzy Approach Topic Modeling for Health and Medical Corpora" paper is now available on Lab's GitHub.
George's paper, "Computational Content Analysis of Negative Tweets for Obesity, Diet, Diabetes, and Exercise", was accepted for the ASIST 2017.
Aida got an internship at Goldman Sachs for Summer 2017.
Awarded my third USC ASPIRE I grant and my first Social Science grant for social media and big data with USC Geography and Political Science Departments.
"Fuzzy Approach Topic Modeling for Health and Medical Corpora" was accepted for the International Journal of Fuzzy Systems.
"Examining the effects of online social relations on product ratings and adoption: Evidence from an online social networking and rating site" was accepted for publication in International Journal of Web Based Communities.
Will give a short talk on Symposium on Research Computing Infrastructure, April 14th, 11 am.
Awarded USC "Two Thumbs Up Award".
Awarded the USC Magellan Scholar Program fund with Frank at the intersection of data science, social media, and health.
For the third semester in a row, I will teach a course, Information Storage and Retrieval, in the USC Honors College in Fall 2017.
I will teach Information Storage and Retrieval (SLIS 301) and Information Network (SLIS 780) in Fall 2017.
I will have a text analytics workshop with Michael Gavin on March 1st and 22nd @11 am at the USC SCPC seminar room in the Hollings Library.
I was awarded a grant fund from the USC Office of Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.
Thursday, January 19 @10:30am: I will talk in the ALISE 2017 for a panel: Information Services, Technology, and Community Values in LIS Research and Education: What the 2015 Catastrophic Flooding in SC Tells Us.
George defended his PhD proposal at the intersection of public health and data science.
I will present my flood granted project at the SC flood conference on Nov 18th.
Aida was awarded the 2016 USC Honors College SURF grant under my supervision.
For the second semester in a row, I will teach a new course, Introduction to Computer Technology and Applications for Information Environment, in the USC Honors College in Spring 2017.
Aida was selected as a 2016 CRA-W GHC Research Scholar.
I will give a talk about "Text Mining Applications in Health and Medical" at the USC Arnold School of Public Health on Aug 26th.
Our research proposal was accepted for the 2016 NSF funded Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) .
I have received the USC SMART Program Support for summer 2016.
Aida was awarded the summer grant for South Carolina Alliance for Minority Participation.
My research story was featured in the New Faculty Academy 2015-2016 Graduates.
Charissa got an internship with Equinix and London got an internship with Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
London was selected as one of the 2016 USC Discovery Day Award Winners.
I was awarded two ASPIRE grants as PI and Co-PI.
I will teach Introduction to Data Science in the USC Honors College in Fall 2016.
Lexi, my student in the USC Honors College, defended her thesis.
Yao defended her PhD dissertation in March 2016. This was my first experience as a PhD committee member.
My recent interviews with WIS TV, Carolina News, and Wach-Fox about our Twitter data analysis for the US presidential election primary candidates.
My research team analysis of the US 2016 primary elections is now available in Election Analysis.
My Recent Letter in the Baltimore Sun Newspaper: Tweets show Americans support Syria's refugees
I will teach two courses for Spring 2016: Design and Management of Databases and Digital Libraries with three of our great graduate assistants.
My Recent Letter in theState Newspaper: SC tweeters support Syrian resettlement
I'll be joining the South Carolina SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality (CHQ) at the Arnold School of Public Health as a Faculty Associate.
Got two grants from the USC, as PI and Co-PI.
My recent interview with @UofSC about my plans, interests, and research was featured in the UofSC Today's News.
I had a presentation about data collection in Twitter for the ASIS&T. To access my tutorial with London please click here; The news link is here.
One of my research team members, London Bennet, was awarded Exploration Scholars Research Grant under my supervision from South Carolina Honors College.
Starting in August 2015, I'll be joining the School of Information Science at the University of South Carolina.
I defended my PhD dissertation with my great committee members.
I will present the new version of my topic model in NAFIPS 2015.
I presented my topic models at UMBC EbiquityResearch.
I will present my papers about topic modeling and online review spam detection at the iConference 2015.
I presented my topic models in the 3rd Annual Biomedical Informatics Symposium.
I was selected to participate at BPDM workshop of KDD 2014.
I presented my paper at the 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems about SMS Spam Detection.
I will present my paper at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) , about SMS Spam Detection.
I will present my fuzzy approach topic model at the 45th Annual Meeting of Decision Science Institute (DSI) .
I presented my paper at the 2014 ACL BioNLP Wokrshop about Feature Transformation (Dimension Reduction) in Medical Corpus.