Detecting Pathogenic Social Media Accounts without Content or Network Structure

no code implementations • 4 May 2019 • Elham Shaabani, Ruocheng Guo, Paulo Shakarian

The spread of harmful mis-information in social media is a pressing problem.

An End-to-End Framework to Identify Pathogenic Social Media Accounts on Twitter

no code implementations • 4 May 2019 • Elham Shaabani, Ashkan Sadeghi-Mobarakeh, Hamidreza Alvari, Paulo Shakarian

Pathogenic Social Media (PSM) accounts such as terrorist supporter accounts and fake news writers have the capability of spreading disinformation to viral proportions.

Causal Inference

Anomaly Detection for an E-commerce Pricing System

no code implementations • 25 Feb 2019 • Jagdish Ramakrishnan, Elham Shaabani, Chao Li, Mátyás A. Sustik

Our system detects anomalies both in batch and real-time streaming settings, and the items flagged are reviewed and actioned based on priority and business impact.

Model Selection Outlier Detection +1

Early Identification of Pathogenic Social Media Accounts

no code implementations • 25 Sep 2018 • Hamidreza Alvari, Elham Shaabani, Paulo Shakarian

Pathogenic Social Media (PSM) accounts such as terrorist supporters exploit large communities of supporters for conducting attacks on social media.

Causal Inference Community Detection

MIST: Missing Person Intelligence Synthesis Toolkit

no code implementations • 28 Jul 2016 • Elham Shaabani, Hamidreza Alvari, Paulo Shakarian, J. E. Kelly Snyder

Each day, approximately 500 missing persons cases occur that go unsolved/unresolved in the United States.