Research Assistant Prof. @CSatUSC 💻 Lead Scientist @USC_ISI 🤖 I investigate bad stuff on the Internet 🕵🏼 (Kite-)surf amateur 🏄🏼

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In collaboration with the Financial Times, our recent analysis uncovers a network of coordinated inauthentic actors engaged in amplifying misleading news content that promotes Poilievre while attacking Carney.
Canadians bombarded with rightwing online content ahead of voting on.ft.com/3S8BFbG
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Good Morning LA ☀️ Ready for an inspiring first day of #icwsm 2026! Opening remarks with @LucaLuceri, @fredmorstatter, and @KristinaLerman
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Get ready for an inspiring day of workshops and tutorials 💡 #ICWSM workshop proceedings are now out: workshop-proceedings.icwsm.o…

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📣 Submit your work to the SocialLLM: Large Language Models for Social Reasoning and Simulation workshop (social-llm-workshop.github.i…) 📅 Submission deadline: April 1, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE 📅 Paper notifications: April 15, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE Submit here: openreview.net/group?id=ICWS…

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Only two days left to apply!
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The #ICWSM 2026 Adamic-Glance Distinguished Young Researcher Award is now accepting nominations and self-nominations! 📅 Deadline for this year's award: March 15th, 2026. Don't miss out on this great opportunity! More info: icwsm.org/2026/submit.html#i…
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🔔 The list of accepted workshops is LIVE on the website! Check out the program and call for contributions icwsm.org/2026/program.html#…
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📢 Reminder: The deadline for #ICWSM 2026 workshop proposals is Jan 30th, don’t miss your chance! Find all the details here 👉 icwsm.org/2026/submit.html#w… @gvrkiran @lespin @msaveski

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This semester I am teaching a PhD course on Understanding & Designing Social media, particularly in the age of AI I am trying to push students to think abt what social networks will look like with AI Course content and syllabus here: kiran-research2.comminfo.rut… (comments welcome)
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📢 Updated deadline: Jan 23rd! Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM’26, and prepare a Sept 2026 submission. 💥 Apply with a max 2-page proposal More details: icwsm.org/2026/submit.html#i… #icwsm @journalqd

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🌍 Are you new to #icwsm or @journalqd and based in a low- or middle-income country? 🚨 There are only 10 days left to apply to ICWSM/JQD Global Initiative! 🚀 Apply by Jan 15: icwsm.org/2026/submit.html#i…
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📨1 week left to apply! Hurry up!!
Jan 15
📢 Updated deadline: Jan 23rd! Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM’26, and prepare a Sept 2026 submission. 💥 Apply with a max 2-page proposal More details: icwsm.org/2026/submit.html#i… #icwsm @journalqd
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15 Dec 2025
🚨 Only a month left to apply for the Global Initiative! New to #ICWSM or @journalqd and based in a low- or middle-income country? This is your chance! 📢 Details and call: icwsm.org/2026/submit.html#i…

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Neurips 2025 was such a blast! We snuck a grand piano into the CreativeAI Track to demo Aria, our pretrained chat-style music model:
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🌍Are you new to @icwsm or @journalqd and based in a low- or middle-income country? 💡Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! 📢Call icwsm.org/2026/submit.html#i… 🚀Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3dgSz7

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Interested in detecting influence operations on TikTok? Check this out👇 just accepted at @icwsm 2026 🚀🚀🚀
What does coordinated inauthentic behavior look like on TikTok? We introduce a new framework for detecting coordination in video-first platforms, uncovering influence campaigns using synthetic voices, split-screen tactics, and cross-account duplication. 📄arxiv.org/abs/2505.10867
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✨ Very overdue update: I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor in CS at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Fall 2026. I will be recruiting PhD students!! Please help me spread the word! [Thread] 1/n
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🚨 New preprint 🚨 Can AI agents coordinate influence campaigns w/o human guidance? And how does coordination arise among AI agents? In our latest research, we simulate LLM-powered AI agents acting like users on an online platform, some benign, some running an influence operation
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⚠️ Significant implications for AI safety, platform governance, and digital influence ecosystems. 🧭 Curious how this plays out? An interactive dashboard lets you inspect agent behaviors, network evolution, and coordination dynamics directly.
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Great collab w/ Gian Marco Orlando, @JinyiYe6, Valerio La Gatta, Mahdi Saeedi, Vincenzo Moscato, and @emilio__ferrara 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25003 📊 Interactive Dashboard: llmxio-dashboard.vercel.app/

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