Amira Ghenai
Scholar

Amira Ghenai

Google Scholar ID: 7GiUcaEAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management
Social Media AnalysisInformation RetrievalBias and FairnessAccessibilityDesign for Older
Citations & Impact
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Citations
583
 
H-index
7
 
i10-index
7
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
16
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 2025: Paper 'AGECovP: identifying ageism and analyzing COVID-19 discourse on older adults in YouTube' accepted by EPJ Data Science
  • 2025: Paper 'The Impact of Listening to Music on Stress Level for Anxiety, Depression and PTSD' accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
  • 2025: Paper 'Twitter-MusicPD: Melody of Minds' accepted by EPJ Data Science
  • 2025: Paper 'Exploring Hate Speech Dynamics' accepted by Information Processing and Management
  • 2024: Paper 'User-centric Modeling of Online Hate' accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
  • 2023: Paper 'How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread on Twitter' accepted by HICSS
  • 2023: Paper 'Guidelines for Designing Social Networking Sites for Older Adults' accepted by ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)
  • 2022: Awarded NSERC Discovery Grant
  • 2021: Paper 'E-Health for Older Adults: Navigating Misinformation' accepted by ICT4AWE
  • 2020: Paper 'Addressing Misinformation in Online Social Networks' accepted by Information Journal – Special Issue on Tackling Misinformation Online
Background
  • Assistant Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
  • Research interests include Social Media Analysis, Data Science and Analytics, Fairness in Artificial Intelligence, Accessibility, Inclusive Design, and Human-Computer Interaction
  • Focuses on understanding the spread of health-related misinformation and improving digital accessibility for older adults and neurodiverse populations
  • Leads a funded research program on misinformation and bias, and supervises graduate students on topics such as hate speech propagation, online misinformation, and neurodiversity support tools