[2/2023] One paper is accepted in TheWebConf 2023.

[1/2023] One paper is accepted in EACL 2023.

[11/2022] Selected for the AAAI-2023 New Faculty Highlights Program.

[10/2022] Received a DARPA grant on modeling misinformation pathways, joint with Charles River Analytics.

[9/2022] Invited to talk (remotely) at Tsinghua University and Georgetown University.

[9/2022] Invited to talk at Cisco Research Responsible AI Summit.

[8/2022] Received two IIT ACT Center Computational Interdisciplinary Seed Funding to study disinformation and pandemic modeling [IIT News].

[7/2022] Invited to serve as a Senior PC for AAAI 2023.

[6/2022] Invited to talk at Cisco Research on fair machine learning.

[5/2022] One paper is accepted in KDD 2022.

[4/2022] Our 2017 fake news survey paper is the most popular article in SIGKDD Explorations.

[4/2022] One paper is accepted in NAACL 2022.

[4/2022] Received a Cisco Research Award to support our research on explainable AI with fairness and privacy.

[3/2022] Keynote invitation in SocialNLP 2022 workshop, collocated in TheWebConf'22

[3/2022] Invited to participate in a panel on How Data Science Impacts Industry, Education, and Society, College of Computing Speaker Series.

[2/2022] AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention (Data Mining), Aminer 2022.

[1/2022] Two papers are accepted in TheWebConf 2022.

[12/2021] Finalist, Meta (Facebook) Research Faculty Award.

[12/2021] Invited to talk at The University of Chicago on Combating Disinformation on Social Media.

[11/2021] Finalist, the 2021 BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.

[11/2021] Received the 2021 Google Cloud Research Credits Award.

[10/2021] Two papers are accepted in IEEE BigData 2021.

[10/2021] One paper is accepted in WSDM 2022.

[9/2021] Computer Science Professor to Apply Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Help Diagnose Diabetes Patients

[9/2021] One paper is accepted in ICONIP 2021.

[9/2021] Received a seed grant from Illinois Institute of Technology, joint with IIT Chem. and Bio. Engineering.

[8/2021] Received a seed grant from Discovery Partners of Institute, joint with UIC Medicine.

[8/2021] Grateful to receive a NSF grant to study the intersection of HPC and AI.

[8/2021] One journal paper is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).

[7/2021] Interviewed by the George Washington Today on recent disinformation research.

[5/2021] Invited to serve as a PC member for CIKM 2021, WSDM 2022.

[5/2021] Two papers are accepted in SIGKDD 2021.

[4/2021] Invited to serve as a PC member for EMNLP 2021.

[4/2021] One paper is accepted in SIGIR 2021.

[3/2021] Happy to participate in a panel on social ethics with Women and Gender Minorities in S.T.E.M. (WiSTEM) at IIT.

[3/2021] Invited to participate in the panel on AI bias and fairness.

[3/2021] Research is featured in collegegazette: The 10 Best Technology Colleges in the US.

[2/2021] Invited to serve as the PC Chair for ASONAM 2021.

[1/2021] Received the IDDP Research Fellowship Award from GWU to support research on disinformation.

[1/2021] Computer Science Professor to Expand Award-Winning Fake News Research

[1/2021] Invited to serve on the editorial board of SNAM journal.

[12/2020] Invited to serve as a PC member for KDD 2021, ACL 2021.

[12/2020] One paper is accepted in AAAI 2021.

[11/2020] Invited to review research proposal for Swiss National Science Foundation.

[11/2020] Invited to (remotely) talk at Hohai University, China.

[11/2020] Received the Dean's Dissertation Award, ASU Fulton Schools of Engineering [Certificate].

[11/2020] Invited to co-chair ICWSM 2021 Data Challenge.

[9/2020] One paper is accepted in EMNLP 2020.

[8/2020] Invited to talk at the 5th China National Conference on Big Data & Social Computing (BDSC 2020). Received the Rising Star Award (Certificate in Chinese).

[8/2020] Invited to serve as a PC member for AAAI 2021.

[8/2020] Invited to talk (remotely) at Pinterest ML Lunch talk.

[7/2020] Invited to serve as a PC member for TheWebConf 2021.

[7/2020] Two papers are accepted in CIKM 2020.

[7/2020] An algorithm to detect fake news-ASU Knowledge Enterprise.

[7/2020] Invited to serve as a PC member for SDM 2021.

[6/2020] Invited to speak at the 1st WHO Infodemiology Conference.[Where is Kai?]

[6/2020] Received the Best Reviewer Award in ICWSM 2020.

[6/2020] Invited to serve as a PC member for WSDM 2021.

[6/2020] Two papers are accepted in ECML-PKDD 2020.

[5/2020] FakeNewsTracker is among the Top ML Projects To Fight Fake News Fatigue During COVID-19.

[5/2020] One paper is accepted in IEEE Intelligent Systems. Media coverage: Venturebeat, Digital Information World, Report Door.

[5/2020] Invited to deliver research talks (remotely) in Google Research, Illinois Tech, and ICT, CAS.

[5/2020] Co-presented (remotely) a keynote talk in the Workshop on Data Science for Fake News at PAKDD 2020.

[4/2020] One paper is accepted in SIGIR'20.

[4/2020] Microsoft claims its AI framework spots fake news better than state-of-the-art baselines.

[3/2020] Received the ASU CIDSE Doctoral Fellowship.

[3/2020] The Springer book is officially out! - Disinformation, Misinformation, and Fake News in Social Media. [ToC]

[11/2019] One paper is accepted in ICWSM'20

[9/2019] Fires in the Amazon: Arizona researchers determine what’s true, what’s not, an interview with Arizona PBS Cronkite News on AI and fake news [video].

[9/2019] AI Squares Off Against Fake News. -- feature news about KDD'19 tutorial.

[8/2019] Clickbait Secrets Exposed! Humans and AI team up to improve clickbait detection.

[8/2019] Invited talk (remotely participating) at Microsoft AI on Learning with Weak Supervision.

[8/2019] Invited to serve as a PC member for AAAI'20.

[7/2019] Our book Detecting Fake News on Social Media is online.

[6/2019] Invited talk at Microsoft Research AI Power Lunch talk series on fake news detection.

[6/2019] Received the student travel award for KDD'19.

[6/2019] Two papers are accepted in ASONAM'19.

[4/2019] One paper on "Explainable Fake News Detection" is accepted in KDD'19.

[4/2019] Our tutorial on "Fake News Research: Theories, Detection Strategies, and Open Problems" is accepted in KDD'19. See you in Anchorage, Alaska!

[3/2019] One paper on exploiting emojis for sarcasm detection got accepted at SBP.

[3/2019] Invited to serve as PC member in ASONAM'19.

[2/2019] Students’ Fresh Perspectives Lead ASU Researcher to Success.

[1/2019] Invited blog post on Can AI help discern fact from fake on social media?.

[12/2018] I demonstrated FakeNewsTracker in the Global Engagement Center (GEC)'s Tech Innovation Program by the US Department of State.

[11/2018] I gave an invited talk on "Fake News on Social Media: Characterization and Detection", at the Second International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Optimization (WAIO 2018).

[11/2018] One paper is accepted in AAAI 2019.

[10/2018] 2 papers and 1 tutorial are accepted in WSDM 2019. Check here for more details for the tutorial.

[08/2018] I was interviewed by Data Skeptic, the most downloaded data related podcast on iTunes, talking about our research on fake news detection.

[07/2018] FakeNewsTracker was awarded the Challenge Winner for the disinformation challenge in SBP 2018.

[07/2018] We released a tool FakeNewsTracker, for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing of fake news and the related dissemination on social media. Check it out!

[03/2018] ''The data defenders'', ASU Now.

[02/2018] I attended WSDM 2018 and gave a spotlight presentation. The datasets will be available soon!

[01/2018] Received a NVIDIA GPU Grant.

[12/2017] The FakeNewsNet dataset is available now! Github, Kaggle.

[10/2017] Our blog on fake news detection is among the most shared last week in KDNuggets! Blog in Chinese, Korean.

[10/2017] Our survey about fake news detection on social media is featured in KDNuggets!