Scholar
Samar Haider
Google Scholar ID: 14Pc5EkAAAAJ
University of Pennsylvania
Citations & Impact
Citations
128
H-index
5
i10-index
4
Publications
11
Co-authors
7
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Co-chairing NAACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) 2025
- Organized the first joint SICSS and IC2S2 at Penn in 2024
- Launched the Media Bias Detector in June 2024
- Four papers accepted to IC2S2 2024
- Paper on evaluating geopolitical bias in LLMs accepted to NAACL 2024
- Received Outstanding Reviewer Award from EMNLP 2023
- Presented work on mapping the U.S. news landscape at TADA 2023
- Serving as Tutorial Chair for IC2S2 2024
- Gave a talk on LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) at PyCon Pakistan 2024
- Organizing the 2024 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) at Penn
Background
- PhD student in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania
- Research interests lie at the intersection of computational social science and natural language processing
- Focuses on using large language models to study bias in mainstream media
- Aims to understand U.S. news publishing patterns, story selection, and narrative framing
- Member of the Penn Media Accountability Project
- Scientific lead of the Media Bias Detector
