Alexander C. Nwala
@acnwalaAssistant professor @williamandmary @WMdatascience. Postdoc @OSoMe_IU. PhD @WebSciDL @odu. Built @storygraphbot @localmem @icanhazmemento @_wdill
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Yesterday, I defended my PhD dissertation: twitter.com/phonedude_mln/… I'm very grateful for God's grace to come this far. So many people made valuable contributions to make this possible. I will attempt in this thread to identify some.
Our paper “Coordinated Reply Attacks in Influence Operations: Characterization and Detection” is also accepted to ICWSM without revision 🎉 🎉 🎉 Congratz @manitapote Alessandro Flammini Fil Menczer @OSoMe_IU Wow what a day! arxiv.org/abs/2410.19272
[1] Industry track: "RESTful-Llama: Connecting User Queries to RESTful APIs" that uses LLMs to generate RESTful API code instructions. [2] WiNLP workshop: "Focused ReAct: Improving ReAct through Reiterate and Early Stop" on improving LLM-based reasoning agents like ReAct.
Our next OSoMe Awesome Speaker: @KristinaLerman from USC! Don't miss her talk "Collective Psychology of Social Media: Emotions, Conflict & Mental Health in the Digital Age" on 13 Nov at 12pm ET Register: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist… OSoMe Awesome Speakers: osome.iu.edu/events/speaker…
Researching largely unexplored parasitic phages led to big wins for @williamandmary's @iGEM team at the Grand Jamboree in Paris. They won gold and finished in the top 10 worldwide. news.wm.edu/2024/11/04/wm-…
Our cultural heritage erodes over time without active preservation. Books. Music. Movies. Television. And more are all at risk. That’s where @internetarchive comes in. 👏
Day 5 at #CIKM2024 Excited to present my dissertation research at the PhD Symposium today @BoiseCentre "Evaluating Social Media Reach via Mainstream Media Discourse" DOI: doi.org/10.1145/362767… 🛝: slideshare.net/slideshow/eval… @weiglemc @phonedude_mln @acnwala @WebSciDL @cikm2024
🧵 1/ Redirects often lead to useful pages or dead links, but sometimes... you get pranked! 👀🎶 Check out our @WebSciDL blog revealing how meme culture impacts the web: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/10/2024-1… @internetarchive @FilFoundation @oducs #WebArchiveWednesday #Memes
Thrilled to present our research resource paper at 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management #CIKM2024 in the Resource Track! @cikm2024 @BoiseCentre dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…
It’s Not Your Parents' Web anymore … The Internet isn’t as permanent as you might think. A new study shows: – 2.3 year median lifespan for web pages – 1 in 5 pages from 2021 already gone – 10% of root URLs disappear within a year 👉 Time to rethink preservation of digital…
Last summer, I had the privilege of working as a data scientist intern with the Alexa-Cert-Team at Amazon. You can get more details about my experience and projects from my blog post. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/10/2024-1… @WebSciDL @amazon
Make sure to join us for @JosephineLukito's free virtual talk tomorrow at noon: 💥 Challenges and Solutions for Multi-Platform Studies of Election Discourse 💥 could not be more relevant right now! Register here: osome.iu.edu/events/speaker…
OSoMe Awesome Speakers returns next week! We're starting off strong with a talk from Josephine (Jo) Lukito, "Challenges and Solutions for Multi-Platform Studies of Election Discourse" Register here: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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OSoMe Awesome Speakers returns next week! We're starting off strong with a talk from Josephine (Jo) Lukito, "Challenges and Solutions for Multi-Platform Studies of Election Discourse" Register here: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Cc my Privacy and AI Law students
Excited to share that our paper on Twitter accounts using AI-generated faces has been published in @journalsafetech I'll present it at the Trust and Safety Research Conference this Thursday. Happy to chat if you are also at the conference!
Latest publication w/@yang3kc & @danishjeetsingh 🧪 Characteristics and Prevalence of Fake Social Media Profiles with AI-generated Faces doi.org/10.54501/jots.… tl;dr: At least 9-18k daily active X accounts use AI profiles to spread scams, spam, amplify coordinated messages, etc.
Some webpages are immortal, but most are ephemeral. Our preliminary report on our study of 27M webpages archived by @WaybackMachine @WebSciDL @internetarchive @FilFoundation @oducs 🧵 1/ ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/09/2024-0…
I'll be presenting this paper about LLM fact checking (with @YyjHarry @yang3kc and @OSoMe_IU) at Stanford next week for the Trust and Safety conference (Media Literacy session). doi.org/10.48550/arXiv… I can only stay for the first day so say hi if you'll be there!
Excited to be at Stanford next week for the Trust and Safety conference conferences.law.stanford.edu/tsrc/agenda202… Looking forward to presenting our work on WhatsApp, including WhatsApp monitoring for the US elections. Say hi if you are around! Here's an AI generated image of how I'll look:
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