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 New York, NY
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Joined May 2009
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4 lab papers at CSCW: FB feedback expectations, happn loc tracking, Airbnb trust, limits of resource sharing; see stech.nyc
I am giving an invited talk at WSDM 2016 about my research and startup experiences around events in social media. wsdm-conference.org/2016/inv…
Academic affiliation change: I am moving from Rutgers to Cornell Tech NYC. See you in New York City!
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Proud to have Mahaya included in the first ever round of the TimeSpace program at the New York Times. ow.ly/kJ3os
2 more keynotes this spring: ICMR 2013 (done) and Language Analysis in Social Media Workshop at NAACL, coming up: ow.ly/kJ3fY
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Gave a keynote address at ECIR 2013 about our work on events in social media ecir2013.org/keynotes.xml
Mahaya was the official partner of social media highlights for the 121212 Sandy Benefit concert. ow.ly/gLJNZ
TheBeat is featured and I am quoted in a New York Times article about Thanksgiving nytimes.com/2012/11/22/techn…

When Phones Come Out Long Before the Turkey (Published 2012)

Given the millions who will be using social media to record their Thanksgivings and share them with far-flung relatives, this year’s holiday could be the most documented in its history.

nytimes.com
My work on finding Twitter sources for events w/ @ndiakopoulos, @munmun10 featured on Mashable: mashable.com/2012/02/15/seri…
Belated thanks to Yahoo! for a Research Engagement Award, and overall support for data science at Rutgers SC&I! bit.ly/ThanksYahoo
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New Google Research Award to study spatiotemporal patterns in Social Media: looking for a star postdoc. Thanks Google! bit.ly/rsP9cr
Received a Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program gift. Thanks, Yahoo, for the gift, collaboration, and data! bit.ly/o1lorz
Happy to welcome Munmun De Choudhury as a new postdoc in the Social Media Information Lab, working on my Google-funded project.
Looking for fantastic new PhD students to join our social media research team: http://bit.ly/smphd
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Received NSF CAREER Award for "Reasoning about Local Communities from Social Awareness Streams Data" http://bit.ly/mncareer
Received NSF IIS Award for "Detection and Presentation of Community and Global Event Content from Social Media Sources" http://ow.ly/2OVbP
Received a Nokia "University Collaboration Funding" award to study event sharing experiences. Thanks Nokia! http://ow.ly/2BMo1
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Humbled and grateful to my colleagues for the SC&I Library and Information Science Department 2010 Research Award.
Upcoming appearances: Minnesota CSE colloquium (Apr 19th), Rutgers Yahoo ML Seminar (Apr 27), Ra'anana Hi-Tech Policy Conf (remotely, May 4)
Received a Google Research Award to study users and ranking in Social Awareness Streams like Twitter. http://bit.ly/dkWL8j
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