Invited Talks
- Mining Social Behavior Online: Towards Better Health and Wellness. DUB Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, April 2013.
- Mining Social Behavior Online: Towards Better Health and Wellness. Microsoft Research, New York City, NY, April 2013.
- Mining Social Behavior Online: Towards Better Health and Wellness. School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, April 2013.
- Mining Social Behavior Online: Towards Better Health and Wellness. Department of Computer Science, Lehigh University, PA, March 2013.
- Mining Social Behavior Online: Towards Better Health and Wellness. Department of Software Information Systems, UNC Charlotte, NC, March 2013.
- Mining Social Behavior Online: Towards Better Health and Wellness. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, March 2013.
- Analysis of Online Social Behavior: Towards Better Health and Wellness. School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, PA, Feburary 2013.
- Analysis of Online Social Behavior: Towards Better Health and Wellness. Computer Science Department, University of Rochester, NY, January 2013.
- Computational Social Science for Better Healthcare. GVU Brown Bag Seminar, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, December 2012. (slides)
- Enabling Emotional Intelligence Online. TEDxWomen, South Lake Union, Seattle, WA, December 2012. (slides)
- Enabling Emotional Intelligence Online. Computer Science Education Week, Microsoft Research Day of Caring, Kent, WA, December 2012.
- Mood and Emotion Mining in Social Media: Science and Applications. Data Analytics Forum, Microsoft SQL Server Team, Redmond, WA, July 2012.
- Affect and Mood Mining in Social Media. Social Research Offsite, Microsoft Bing, Bellevue, WA, October 2011.
- Social Media Comes to the Rescue of Modern Urban Planning. Transportation Research Board (TRB) Meeting, Irvine, CA, May 2011.
- Information That Matters: Investigating Relevance of Entities in Social Media Networks. School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, February 2011. (slides)
- Information That Matters: Investigating Relevance of Entities in Social Media Networks. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, January 2011. (slides)
- Information That Matters: Investigating Relevance in Social Communication Media. School of Communication & Information, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, November 2010. (slides)
- Inferring Relevance of Items in Social Media Spaces: Where Sampling Meets Cognition. Annual Watson Workshop on Emergent Leaders in Multimedia, Hawthorne, NY, October 2010. (slides)
- Sampling Social Information Spaces for Real-time Search. Social Computing Offsite, Microsoft Research, Redmond, July 2010.
- Taking Research into Private Sphere: My Experiences in Corporate Research, Summer 2009. IEEE Computer Society, ASU, September 2009.
- Inferring Relevant Network Structures from Social Communication. Key Scientific Challenges Graduate Student Summit, Yahoo! Research, Sunnyvale, September 2009.
- Dynamics of Communication in Online Social Networks. Invited talk, Avaya Labs, Basking Ridge, NJ, June 2009. (slides)
- Characteristics of Conversations in Online Social Media. CSE PhD Forum, Arizona State University, April 2009.
- Inferring Availability of Enterprise Workers based on Instant Messaging Activity. Avaya Labs, Basking Ridge, NJ, August 2006.
Conference Presentations
- Predicting Postpartum Changes in Emotion and Behavior via Social Media. CHI 2013, Paris, France, May 2013. (slides)
- "Moon Phrases": A Social Media Facilitated Tool for Emotional Reflection and Wellness. Pervasive Health 2013, Venice, Italy, May 2013. (slides)
- Social Media in Facilitating Technologies for Postpartum Wellness. Motherhood and HCI Workshop 2013, Paris, France, May 2013. (slides)
- Major Life Changes and Behavioral Markers in Social Media: Case of Childbirth. CSCW 2013, San Antonio, TX, February 2013. (slides)
- Understanding Affect in the Workplace via Social Media. CSCW 2013, San Antonio, TX, February 2013. (slides)
- How Social Information Networks Reflect Major Life Events: Case of Childbirth. WIN 2012, New York, NY, September 2012. (slides)
- Not All Moods are Created Equal! Exploring Human Emotional States in Social Media. ICWSM 2012, Dublin, Ireland, June 2012. (slides)
- Unfolding the Event Landscape on Twitter: Classification and Exploration of User Categories. CSCW 2012, Bellevue, WA, February 2012. (slides)
- Identifying Relevant Social Media Content: Leveraging Information Diversity and User Cognition. HT 2011, Eindhoven, Netherlands, June 2011. (slides)
- How Does the Sampling Strategy Impact the Discovery of Information Diffusion in Social Media? ICWSM 2010, Washington D.C., USA, May 2010. (slides)
- Inferring Relevant Social Networks from Interpersonal Communication. WWW 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina, April 2010. (slides)
- Social Synchrony: Predicting Mimicry of User Actions in Online Social Media. SocialCom 2009, Vancouver, Canada, August 2009. (slides)
- Temporal Patterns in Social Media Streams: Theme Discovery and Evolution using Joint Analysis of Content and Context. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, New York, June - July 2009.
- Connecting Content to Community in Social Media via Image Content, User Tags and User Communication. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, New York, June - July 2009. (slides)
- What Makes Conversations Interesting? Themes, Participants and Consequences of Conversations in Online Social Media. Eighteenth International World Wide Web Conference, Madrid, Spain, April 2009. (slides)
- Can Blog Communication Dynamics be correlated with Stock Market Activity? Nineteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, June 2008. (slides)
- Dynamic Prediction of Communication Flow Using Social Context. Nineteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, June 2008. (slides)
- Contextual Prediction of Communication Flow in Social Networks. IEEE/WIC/ACM international Conference on Web intelligence, Silicon Valley, California, USA, November 2007. (slides)
- Context Aware Routing of Enterprise User Communications. Fifth IEEE international Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, White Plains, New York, USA, March 2007. (slides)
- Genetic Algorithm Approach for Fuzzy Controllers. Cognizance 2004, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, March 2004.
- Remote Processes and Machine Control of Windows NT based systems (2000/XP). SPCTS 2003, IEEE Gujarat Section, September 2003.
Seminars / Symposia
- Social Media Content Exploration from a Cognitive Perspective. HCI Summer Intern Talk, Microsoft Research, Redmond, July 2010.
- Analyzing the Dynamics of Communication in Online Social Networks. Ph.D Proposal Defense, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, April 2010. (slides)
- How 'Birds of a Feather Flock Together' on Online Social Spaces. LGSA Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Symposium, Arizona State University, March 2010. (slides)
- Dynamics of Communication in Online Social Media. Reflective Living Group Meeting Seminar, October 2009. (slides)
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