11, 2023: Attended the IOF Workshop: Statistical Challenges in the Analysis of Police Use of Force hosted by Carleton College, in Northfield, Minnesota.
10, 2023: Invited to serve as an in-person panelist at Morgan TechFest.
09, 2023: Invited by Mr. Steven Thomas to serve as a virtual panelist for the "How to Become a Super Scholar" panel at the 2023 Michigan State University AGEP Student Success Conference in November 2023.
09, 2023: Invited to serve as an in-person speaker at the SLOAN Series Spelman+MSU Bridge Program at Spelman College in October 2023.
09, 2023: A preprint of our paper, Are You Worthy of My Trust?: A Socioethical Perspective on the Impacts of Trustworthy AI Systems on the Environment and Human Society is released on arXiv.
09, 2023: Started a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science position at Morgan State University.
06, 2023: Invited by Dr. Marta Dark McNeese to serve as a virtual speaker at Spelman College for a seminar talk titled, "Bias and Discrimination in Natural Language Processing + Biological Data Science".
05, 2023: Started an Instructor position at Michigan State University in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering.
04, 2023: Invited by Dr. Brendon O'Connor to serve as an in-person speaker at the University of Massachusetts, LSA Summer Institute for the workshop "Bridging methods to study sociolectal variation" in July 2023. [Planned Schedule].
04, 2023: Invited by Dr. Hamid Karimi to serve as a virtual speaker at Utah State University for a talk tiltled, "Bias and Discrimination in NLP: Race and Gender".
04, 2023: Our paper "Can We Identify and Dismantle “ISMs” that Plague Our Society: An Online Approach" has been accepted at the 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2023) (Non-archival).
04, 2023: Our paper "Beyond Race and Gender: A Look at Sociodemographic Biases Toward Persons with Disabilities" has been accepted at the 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2023) for a PARALLEL TALK.
10, 2022: Awarded a full-time, on-site Research Scientist Internship at Google Research during Fall/Winter 2022.
10, 2022: Won People's Choice Awards for Best Oral and Poster Presentation at the 2022 MSU AGEP Student Success Conference.
09, 2022: Our paper, The topological shape of gene expression across the evolution of flowering plants is released on BioRxiv.
08, 2022: Our paper, Evaluating and Mitigating Inherent Linguistic Bias of African American English through Inference has been accepted to the 29th International Conferennce on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022).
06, 2022: Our paper, Detecting Harmful Online Conversational Content towards LGBTQIA+ Individuals" has been accepted to the Queer in AI Workshop hosted by NAACL 2022 [Planned Schedule].
05, 2022: Our paper, Towards a Deep Multi-layered Dialectal Language Analysis: A Case Study of African-American English has been accepted to the Second Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (HCI+NLP) hosted by NAACL 2022 [Planned Schedule].
04, 2022: Our paper, "Using Inference to Mitigate Linguistic Bias Against African American English" has been accepted to the 8th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2022) (Non-archival).
04, 2022: Our paper, "Examining Word Representations between #BlackLivesMatter Movement and its Counter Protests: 2013 to 2020" has been accepted to the 8th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2022) (Non-archival).
04, 2022: Our paper, "Understanding African American English on a Token-Level Beyond Accuracy" has been accepted to the 8th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2022) as a poster presentation.
09, 2021: A preprint of our paper, What Truly Matters? Using Linguistic Cues for Analyzing the #BlackLivesMatter Movement and its Counter Protests: 2013 to 2020 is released on arXiv.
09, 2021: Awarded a full-time, fully-remote IT & Data Analytics internship at Kimberly-Clark during the Summer of 2022.
02, 2021: Our paper, "Does Gender Matter in the News? Detecting and Examining Gender Bias in News Articles" has been accepted to the 7th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2021) (Non-archival).
02, 2021: Our paper, Does Gender Matter in the News? Detecting and Examining Gender Bias in News Articles has been accepted to the 30th International Web Conference (TheWebConf 2021) [Planned Schedule].
09, 2020: Our paper, Does Gender Matter? Towards Fairness in Dialogue Systems has been accepted to the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020).
07, 2020: Awarded an NSF Research Traineeship IMPACTS Fellowship 2020-2022.
02, 2020: Our paper, Link and Interaction Polarity Predictions in Signed Networks has been accepted for publication in Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM 2020).
09, 2019: Administered a Recommender System Dataset Repository on Github consisting of a list of compatible datasets, algorithms, tutorials, metrics and more. Note that this repository contains popular real-world datasets, and can be found [HERE].
08, 2018: Awarded a Michigan State University Enrichment Fellowship (UEF) 2018-2023.