Two papers accepted at SDM 2026 on Spectral Analysis of Disinformation and on Characterizing Hate Speech.

Our ACM Computing Survey's paper on benefits of noise is out. See here!

Welcome to Weibin Cai who is joining our group as a new PhD student!

Our paper "Analyzing Memory Effects in Large Language Models through the lens of Cognitive Psychology" is now available on arXiv.

Our paper "Is Less Really More? Fake News Detection with Limited Information" has been published in SIGKDD Explorations.

Congratulations to Jiayu Li for receiving the All University Doctoral Prize at Syracuse University!

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!

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.

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.

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.

I have joined the editorial board of ACM AI Letters (AILet) as an Associate Editor.

Congratulations to Jiayu Li, Reyhaneh Abdolazimi, and Hao Tian for successfully defending their PhD theses! Jiayu has joined Amazon as an Applied Scientist.

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).

I have joined the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) as an Associate Editor.

Our survey "Higher-Order Networks Representation and Learning: A Survey" has been published in SIGKDD Explorations.

Welcome to Zhaoyang Cao who is joining our group as a new PhD student!

I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Syracuse University!

I served as Multidisciplinary Track Co-Chair at ASONAM 2023.

We will be presenting a tutorial on noise at TheWebConf 2023.

Congratulations to Shengmin Jin and Xinyi Zhou for sucessfully defending their PhD theses!

Our team was Runner Up in the US Department of Energy Solar Forecasting Competition.

Our research on fake news has been highlighted in ACM's AI/ML showcase on the Kudos platform.

I gave a keynote at the 2nd Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (ROMCIR 2022) at ECIR 2022.

We will presenting a tutorial on noise enhancement at SDM 2022 and one on interpretable network representations at WWW 2022.

I gave a keynote at the 3rd Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) - Oxford Internet Institute.

We will present the first work on modeling the intention of fake news spreaders at WWW 2022.

Our survey on fake news research (ACM Computing Surveys) is now available online

Shengmin's paper on graph-based identification and authentication has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).

I have received an NSF CAREER awarded

We have received an NVidia Education Grant

Shengmin's paper on Emotions in Social Networks is accepted in CIKM' 17. We present the dual of strucutral balance theory in this paper.

Shuchang Liu just received the 2017 Outstanding Graduate Student in Computer Science awarded only to one student in the college of engineering.

We have received a Google Education grant.

Shengmin Jin just received the 2016 Outstanding Graduate Student in Computer Science awarded only to one student in the college of engineering.

Souradeep Sinha successfully defended his thesis on gender inequality in online reviews

Kandarp Makwana will be joining Microsoft.

Chinese translation of our textbook, social media mining, is out. See an introduction here and the translation here