Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University
Director, Data Lab
Fall 2025
Welcome to Weibin Cai who is joining our group as a new PhD student!
Sep 2025
Our paper "Analyzing Memory Effects in Large Language Models through the lens of Cognitive Psychology" is now available on arXiv.
Jul 2025
Our paper "Is Less Really More? Fake News Detection with Limited Information" has been published in SIGKDD Explorations.
May 2025
Congratulations to Jiayu Li for receiving the All University Doctoral Prize at Syracuse University!
May 2025
Congratulations to Weibin Cai for successfully defending his MS thesis on harnessing LLMs to detect hate speech. Weibin will be continuing as a PhD student at Syracuse University!
Apr 2025
I gave an invited talk "Fake news detection: Limited Ground Truth Limited Text No Understanding of Spreading Intent" at the GCI Seminar Series at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Mar 20, 2025
I have received the WSDM 2025 Test of Time Award for our paper "Sarcasm Detection on Twitter: A Behavioral Modeling Approach" (WSDM 2015). The award was presented at WSDM 2025 in Hanover, Germany.
2025
I am serving as PC Co-Chair for CogMI 2025 (International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence) and PC Co-Chair (Research Track) for DSAA 2025.
2025
I have joined the editorial board of ACM AI Letters (AILet) as an Associate Editor.
Fall 2024
Congratulations to Jiayu Li, Reyhaneh Abdolazimi, and Hao Tian for successfully defending their PhD theses! Jiayu has joined Amazon as an Applied Scientist.
Jun 2024
I gave a keynote on "Fake news detection: Limited Ground Truth Limited Text No Understanding of Spreading Intent" at the CySoc Workshop 2024 (at ICWSM 2024).
2024
I have joined the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) as an Associate Editor.
Jul 2024
Our survey "Higher-Order Networks Representation and Learning: A Survey" has been published in SIGKDD Explorations.
Fall 2023
Welcome to Zhaoyang Cao who is joining our group as a new PhD student!
May 2023
I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Syracuse University!
2023
I served as Multidisciplinary Track Co-Chair at ASONAM 2023.
Dec 16, 2022
We will be presenting a tutorial on noise at TheWebConf 2023.
Dec 5, 2022
Congratulations to Shengmin Jin and Xinyi Zhou for sucessfully defending their PhD theses!
2022
Our team was Runner Up in the US Department of Energy Solar Forecasting Competition.
2022
Our research on fake news has been highlighted in ACM's AI/ML showcase on the Kudos platform.
Apr 2022
I gave a keynote at the 2nd Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (ROMCIR 2022) at ECIR 2022.
Jan 15, 2022
We will presenting a tutorial on noise enhancement at SDM 2022 and one on interpretable network representations at WWW 2022.
Sep 2021
I gave a keynote at the 3rd Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) - Oxford Internet Institute.
Jan 14, 2020
We will present the first work on modeling the intention of fake news spreaders at WWW 2022.
Oct 1, 2020
Our survey on fake news research (ACM Computing Surveys) is now available online
Sep 24, 2020
Shengmin's paper on graph-based identification and authentication has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).
Aug 24, 2020
I have received an NSF CAREER awarded
Oct 1, 2017
We have received an NVidia Education Grant
Aug 5, 2017
Shengmin's paper on Emotions in Social Networks is accepted in CIKM' 17. We present the dual of strucutral balance theory in this paper.