Awarded a Fulbright Award (2022–2023) for cross-cultural analysis of social biases in large language models in Germany
Received an ATIP award for AI-based cognitive function assessment in persons with dementia
Secured two NSF grants: one on studying discrimination against Chinese Americans during the pandemic (2020), another on fairness in healthcare resource allocation (2019)
Awarded a NIST grant on 'Differential Fairness for AI/ML Systems'
Published extensively in top venues including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, IJCAI, ICWSM, IUI, CIKM, and RecSys
Served on program committees of major conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, IJCAI, IUI, CIKM, and RecSys
Co-edited IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin special issues on Fairness and Responsible AI (2020, 2021)
Co-edited a 2019 ACM TIIS special issue on 'Data-driven Personality Modeling'
Background
Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems at UMBC
Primary research interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large-Scale Social Media Analytics, and their applications in Human Behavior Modeling
Also interested in Fair AI/ML and Human-AI Interaction
Authored 100+ peer-reviewed papers in top-tier international conferences and journals
Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS); Steering Committee member of IUI