Jana Diesner

Professor at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Social Computing, Network Science, Natural Language Processing, AI.

[Yuerong Hu @miehumie]

We @Zoe_LeBlanc @janadiesner @Ted_Underwood @gworthey @profdownie are happy to share our latest journal article “Complexities of leveraging user-generated book reviews for scholarly research: transiency, power dynamics, and cultural dependency” on @ijdl: https://t.co/lfSiGNF5eb.

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

Congrats to @iSchoolUI PhD student @JeoungSullam for winning the best paper award @trustnlp @aclmeeting for "Causal Impact of First Names on Language Models" arXiv:2306.01117! Takeaway: "To ensure model robustness, augment datasets with diverse first names during configuration".

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

Exciting to see @iSchoolUI PhD students Chieh-Li "Julian" Chin, Kanyao Han, HaeJin Lee, and Apratim Mishra each presenting their research on science of science @ICSSIConference @KelloggSchool

[JC Holbrook @astroholbrook]

I’m looking for grad students! Deadline June 30 for Sept 2023 start. You need 2 or 4 page research proposal. Are you interested in studying people & sky knowledge, astrophysicists, observatories consider Edinburgh @UoE_STIS! https://t.co/0PmOb9LNJw @STSeasst @BlackInAstro @sacnas

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

Congrats to my amazing former student @LyDinh_ , now assistant professor @USouthFlorida, and @yiyunjessica (advised by @ludaesch), now assistant professor @RutgersCommInfo, who both won the Berner-Nash Memorial Award from @iSchoolUI for their outstanding doctoral dissertations!

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

Join us for a public talk by Keith Hunter from @usfca: "Differences in network perceptions within and across groups”. Fri Apr 28, 9-10am CT, on Zoom https://t.co/nqYZe1RXpj. More on "Knowledge graphs and semantic computing" series @iSchoolUI at https://t.co/ZJHaocJgBl.

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

Join us for a talk by Dr. Erin Leahey, co-author of https://t.co/u64bfyyIoM, on "Papers and Patents are Becoming Less Disruptive over Time". Fri, Feb 17, 9-10am CT, Zoom: https://t.co/A94ZVeglBC. More on knowldge graphs and semantics series @iSchoolUI at https://t.co/ZJHaocJgBl.

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

Join us for a public talk by Dr. Jennifer D’Souza, @TIBHannover, on: "Semantic Publishing of Scientific Contributions in the Open Research Knowledge Graph.” Friday, Jan 10, 9 - 10am Central Time, Zoom https://t.co/D55FqrsdaI. @iSchoolUI

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

Join us for a public talk by Peter Gloor @pgloor: Happimetrics: Leveraging AI to Untangle the Surprising Link Between Ethics, Happiness and Business Success. Fri 1/20, 9-10am, Zoom https://t.co/AuiNiiSA6j. Schedule of Semantic Computing series @iSchoolUI: https://t.co/y6aV7vdP2I

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

Are you a social scientist interested in studying science of science in astrophysics/ big science astrophysics collaborations? Consider applying for the LSSTC Catalyst postdoc fellowship (https://t.co/EnjlxavVZd) by Jan 15, 2023. @VRubinObs

[Shubhanshu Mishra @TheShubhanshu]

Introducing PyTAIL tool and benchmark paper from my PhD thesis done in collaboration with my advisor @janadiesner at InterNLP and HiLL @NeurIPSConf workshops.

PyTAIL aims to merge active learning, online learning, and human in the loop interface.

https://t.co/bRMV0rBOZy

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

Last "Responsible AI" talk, by Dr. Anikó Hannák from @UZH_en: "New Faces of Bias in Online Platforms.” Fri, Dec 2, 9-10am CT, Zoom https://t.co/rR5P0Sy6QI. We continue in 2023 with a series on "Knowledge graphs and semantic computing" @iSchoolUI, more at https://t.co/ZJHaocJOqT.

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

Everyone is welcome to join us for a talk by Anissa Tanweer from @UW on "Data science ethics: An ethnographic perspective.” Fri, Nov 18, 9 am CT, Zoom https://t.co/GZ0DMQir0n. Abstract & details on "Responsible Data Science & AI" series
@iSchoolUI at https://t.co/ZJHaocJOqT.

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

Join us for a public talk by @fariba_k from @ceu and @CSHVienna about "Minorities in networks and algorithms.” Friday, Nov 11, 9-10 am Central Time, on Zoom (https://t.co/NiBDRXAGEb). More about "Responsible Data Science & AI" series @iSchoolUI at https://t.co/ZJHaocJOqT.

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

Signal boost!

[Shubhanshu Mishra @TheShubhanshu]

If you are recruiting for ML Researcher role (remote or Chicago)? I was Sr ML Researcher at Twitter with experience in NER, Entity Linking, ML Ethics, and Recommender systems. (DMs open)

Resume: https://t.co/F64O4ehqDm

Scholar: https://t.co/NOZh6fYiHr

#MachineLearning #NLP

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

Public talk by @manish_raghavan (winner of 2021 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award) from @MITSloan: "Challenge of Understanding What Users Want: Inconsistent Preferences and Engagement Optimization.” Fri Nov 4, 9 am CT, Zoom (https://t.co/rxXU6sNrIk). More at https://t.co/ZJHaocJgBl

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

@paulmkurtz @GhentCDH Thank you! It was a great experience meeting you guys and learning more from your comments and suggestions! Big thank you to @juliebirkholz for making this happen!

[Jana Diesner @janadiesner]

Join us for a talk by Ágnes Horvát from @NorthwesternU on "Science on the Web: How networks bias academic communication online”, Friday, Oct 28, 9am CT, on Zoom (https://t.co/K386WNOU2u). Schedule of "Responsible Data Science & AI" series @iSchoolUI at https://t.co/ZJHaocJgBl.

[Shadi Rezapour @shadi_rezapour]

🚨RT appreciated!🚨

I am looking for Ph.D. students to join my lab @DrexelCCI in Fall 2023. Areas of interest include computational social science, NLP, human-centered data science, and more. #NLProc
Email/DM your questions!
More about me and my lab: https://t.co/NmAkLqyEkK

[Shubhanshu Mishra @TheShubhanshu]

Join our tutorial today at @cikm2022 on "Information extraction from social media: A hands-on tutorial on tasks, data, and open source tools" with .
Get hands on session with Social Media IE, and other Social Media NLP tools.

Details: https://t.co/v6uAsHTjwT

#CIKM2022