1st October 2022
Started as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University.
15th March 2020
Our paper titled "Empirical Evaluation of Three Common Assumptions in Building Political Media Bias Datasets" accepted at the AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), June 2020.
11th - 14th June 2019
Received Best Reviewer Award at ICWSM 2019.
4th - 6th June 2019
Attended the onboarding workshop at Facebook HQ, Menlo Park for our Social Science One grant - SHARENEWS: Predicting the Shareworthiness of ‘Real’ and ‘Fake’ News in Europe.
5th December 2019
Co-chaired Dataset Challenge to be held with European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science, 2018.
23rd October 2018
Our paper titled "Analyzing Biases in Perception of Truth in News Stories and their Implications for Fact Checking" accepted at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*), Atlanta, Georgia, US, January 2019.
21st August 2018
Our paper titled "Search bias quantification: investigating political bias in social media and web search" published in Information Retrieval Journal (2018).
25th June 2018
Co-organized Algorithmic Personalization & News workshop at ICWSM 2018 in Stanford, USA, with Nicholas Diakopoulos, Aniko Hannak and Cornelius Puschmann.
24th - 28th May 2018
Attended Annual Conference of the International Communications Association (ICA) in Prague, Czech Republic as a panelist on "Measuring Diversity in Algorithmically Personalized News Environments".
April 2018
Joined as a postdoctoral researcher at the Computational Social Science department at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany.
25th January 2018
Attended International Conference on Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection (CPDP) in Brussels, Belgium, as an invited panelist on "Can Democracy Survive Big Data and Micro-Profiling in Elections?"
23rd January 2018
Attended Annual Privacy Camp in Brussels, Belgium as an invited panelist on "Investigating algorithmic systems: Algorithm auditing".