is a group of researchers who study, analyze, and build different aspects of social systems (e.g. social web systems like Twitter, Facebook), including their security and privacy. By understanding and measuring complex networks, we try and build solutions for social good. Our work primarily derives from Data Science, Computational Social Science, Social Computing, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing.

May 2022: Our paper "Erasing Labor with Labor: Dark Patterns and Lockstep Behaviors on Google Play" accepted at the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT ’22) | Paper

April 2022: Our paper "Ask It Right! Identifying Low-Quality questions on Community Question Answering Services" accepted at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2022) | Pre-Print

April 2022: Our poster "Urbanization and Literacy as factors in Politicians’ Social Media Use in a largely Rural State: Evidence from Uttar Pradesh, India." accepted at COMPASS '22 | Poster

March 2022: Our paper "A Tale of Two Sides: Study of Protesters and Counter-protesters on #CitizenshipAmendmentAct Campaign on Twitter" accepted at WebSci-2022 | Pre-Print

March 2022: Our paper "VacSIM: Learning Effective Strategies for COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution using Reinforcement Learning" accepted at the Journal of Intelligence-Based Medicine. 2022. | Pre-Print

March 2022: Our paper "TweetBoost: Influence of Social Media on NFT Valuation" accepted at FinWeb-2022 (Workshop at WWW '2022) | Pre-Print

March 2022: Our work "Twitter-STMHD: An Extensive User-Level Database of Multiple Mental Health Disorders." accpeted at the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM' 22). | Pre-Print

March 2022: Our work "Effect of Popularity Shocks on User Behaviour." accepted at the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). | Pre-Print

March 2022: Our work "FactDrill: A Data Repository of Fact-checked Social Media Content to Study Fake News Incidents in India." accepted at the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). | Pre-Print

Feb 2022: Our work "Leveraging Intra and Inter Modality Relationship for Multimodal Fake News Detection" accepted at MUWS, co-located with The WebConf (WWW) 2022 | Pre-Print

Feb 2022: Our paper "TweetBoost: Influence of Social Media on NFT Valuation" accepted at FinWeb-2022 (Workshop at WWW '2022) | Pre-Print

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