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