Prof. Kiran Garimella from Rutgers will be the next speaker in the Social Data Science Interest Group Webinar Series. The talk will happen over Zoom this Friday 4 March at 4pm. (Note the changed time.)
Zoom URL: https://turing-uk.zoom.us/j/91263541380?pwd=QXRPK1NmNU5YM2JMWm1SYkhqKzJ4UT09
Title: Content moderation on encrypted platforms
Abstract: I will start the talk with our recent work on collecting and analyzing data from WhatsApp. I’ll try to summarize work on how WhatsApp is used by political parties in India to spread misinformation and hate speech. Next, I will delve deep into developing solutions for content moderation on WhatsApp, which is non trivial due to the end to end encrypted nature of WhatsApp. I will present two solutions: One based on an on-device setup to content moderation, before the content is encrypted, and the second based on a crowdsourced, bottom up model for fact checking. I will end with a discussion on potential future research directions in this space.
Bio: Kiran Garimella is an assistant professor in the school of communication and information at Rutgers university. Prior to joining Rutgers, Dr. Garimella was the Michael Hammer postdoc at the Institute for Data, Systems and Society at MIT, and a postdoc at EPFL, Switzerland. His research deals with using large-scale data to tackle societal issues such as misinformation, political polarization, or hate speech. His work on studying and mitigating polarization on social media won the best student paper awards at top computer science conferences. Kiran received his Ph.D. in computer science at Aalto University, Finland, and Masters & Bachelors from IIIT Hyderabad, India. Prior to his Ph.D., he worked as a Research Engineer at Yahoo Research, Barcelona, and QCRI, Doha.
Nishanth Sastry is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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nishanth
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