alexandra@aolteanu.com

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I am part of Microsoft Research's group on Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE).

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November 2018
• The list of accepted tutorials at 2019 ACM FAT* is now online. Emre and I are excited about the program!


October 2018
• Humbled to be included in the SAGE Ocean's list of "39 women doing amazing research in computational social science, " and grateful for the shoutout from my MSR colleagues.


September 2018
• Our workshop proposal on AI-Powered Information Ecosystems and Democracy was selected as one of the four winning CIFAR AI and Society Workshops (10% acceptance rate).


August 2018
• Excited to join the MSR Montreal's group on Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics!
• Our proposal for Suplier's Declarations of Conformity for AI Services was covered by VentureBeat, ZDNet, Futurism, and many others.
• The pre-print of our paper on Suplier's Declarations of Conformity for AI Services is now available on arxiv.


June 2018
• Emre Kıcıman and I will serve as Tutorials Co-chairs for the 2019 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*), Atlanta, Georgia.
• Miguel presented our paper on the effect of extremist violence events on the prevalence and type of hateful speech online (check the paper and the slides! or some of the tweets here and here and here). Sad I couldn't make it!


May 2018
• I was a panelist on the "Humanitarian Technology and Innovation: Building Safer and Resilient Cities," a side event to the United Nation’s 2018 Integration Segment of ECOSOC organized by Committee on Human Settlements, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. As part of the panel, I also gave a short talk on "Social Media Use in Humanitarian Emergencies and Disasters"


April 2018
• I was honored to give the keynote address on "Social Data for Social Good and a Biased Perspective on Research Impact" at the The Second Women in Data Science (WinDS) Workshop, co-located to The Web Conference. Slides available here.
• Attended The Web Conference'18, and Carlos and I were super excited to offer again our Tutorial on Social Data limits.
• The pre-print of the SWIRL report is now online.
• Gave an invited talk on "A Brief Overview of Sources and Manifestations of Biases When Working with Social Data" at Spotify, New York. This was a short version of our tutorial at The Web Conference.


March 2018
• Our paper on "The Effect of Extremist Violence on Hateful Speech Online" was accepted for at ICWSM'18 (16% acceptance rate). Pre-print of camera ready version is now available.


February 2018
• I also attended the first Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparancy (FAT*), and the program was outsanding. Check the videos here and plan to submit for the next year.
• I attended my first SWIRL workshop in beautiful Lorne/Australia (see pictures here). Grateful to Fernando Diaz and Shane Culpepper for organizing it and for inviting me!
• I was happy to be part of the panel on The Future of Information Discovery at RMIT, Melbourne. Great audience, great questions, and a beautiful building :-) (also, found some pictures on social media here, here, and here)
• Emre and I had fun presenting our Tutorial on Social Data limits at WSDM'18. If you want to check out the updated slide decks, you can find them here.


December 2017
• Excited to be co-chairing the ICWSM'18 Tutorials with Kiran and looking forward to your awesome submission!
• Can't make it to WSDM'18 or SDM'18? No worries, we'll be offering the tutorial on Social Data Limits in mid April at WWW'18 and CHI'18 as well.


November 2017
• Thrilled that we will be offering the tutorial on Social Data Limits again next year at both SDM'18 (early May in San Diego) and WSDM'18 (early February in Los Angeles)


October 2017
• I was part of the IBM team at the Refugee Hack Summit hosted by Spotify. My first design/code free hackathon! Quite impressed with all the teams and the organization.


September 2017
• I wrote an IBM Research blog post covering the work lead by our summer intern, Aditya Garg, and in collaboration with Echoing Green on Demystifying Social Entrepreneurship: A Data-Driven Approach. Aditya is also presenting this work at Data Science for Social Good Conference in Chicago.
• Attended the Data For Good Exchange 2017 at Bloomberg (see tweets).
• Attended Dagstuhl Seminar on Cybersafety in Modern Online Social Networks, in Dagstuhl, Germany; I also gave a short talk on "Hate Speech: Thoughts on the Role of User Aspects and External Events."
• Attended ECML PKDD'17 in Skopje, Macedonia. I was honored to join and to give the keynote address at the SoGood'17 Workshop on "Using Social Media to Understand Collective and Personal Events: Challenges and Applications." Slides available here.


August 2017
• KDD'17 was as always filled with interesting talks! (see tweets). We were also happy to present an updated version of our Social Data limits tutorial. Make sure to check out the slide decks here!


June 2017
• Attended the WebSci'17 conference in Troy, NY to present a poster on "The Limits of Abstract Evaluation Metrics: The Case of Hate Speech Detection" (check the extended abstract here). I've also been active on Twitter during the conference talks.
• Excited to be offering a series of seminars on "Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries When Analyzing Online Social Data" at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY.


May 2017
• We will be offering a tutorial at KDD'17 on "Online Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries"
• Extended abstract on "The Limits of Abstract Evaluation Metrics: The Case of Hate Speech Detection" accepted to WebSci'17.


April 2017
• Attended Algorithms and Explanations at NYU. For some of my take-aways check out my tweets :-)


March 2017
• We updated the SSRN pre-print of our survey on "Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries".


February 2017
• CSCW'17: Presented our paper (with Onur Varol and Emre Kıcıman) on distilling the outcomes of people experiences from social media timelines. You can check out the static version of my slides here.
• IBM Social Good Fellowship: Joined IBM as a Social Good Fellow!


January 2017
• I'm preparing myself 😅 for lots of reviewing in the next 1-2 months or so: ICWSM'17/WebSci'17/IC2S2'17/SIGIR'17 short papers and others
• The SSRN pre-print of our survey on "Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries" made it to Top 10 most downloaded recent papers on 8 SSRN topical networks after only two weeks.


December 2016
• We posted online a draft of our survey paper (with ChaTo, Fernando, and Emre) about possible challenges when working with social data for various reseach goals. See the paper pre-print/draft here.
• Gave an invited talk on "Challenges, Problem Selection, and Impact: A Biased Perspective on PhD Studies" at the ICDM'16 PhD Forum, talking about my PhD experience and some lessons from it. The static version of my slides is here.
• Gave a (remote) lecture on "Social Data Biases and the “Garbage In-Garbage Out” Principle" for the Applied Data Analysis Course at EPFL, thought by Michele Catasta. The slides cover a part of the ICWSM'16 Tutorial.


November 2016
• Gave a talk on "The True Colors of Depicting Real-World Events with Social Media" at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.


September 2016
• Paper by Onur, Emre and I on what we can learn from social media timelines about the outcomes of personal experiences accepted to CSCW’17.
• Gave talks on "The True Colors of Depicting Real-World Events with Social Media" at IBM Research-Almaden and Northeastern University (remote) discusing Twitter data pitfalls when used to depict events.


August 2016
• Gave a couple of talks on "The True Colors of Depicting Real-World Events with Social Media" at NEC Labs, Princeton and Columbia University, NYC, discusing Twitter data to understand events and pitfalls.
• Attended KDD'16 in San Francisco. For some of my take-aways check out my tweets :-)


May 2016
• ICWSM'16: ChaTo, Emre, Fernando, and I offered a tutorial on limits of social data. Our slides and other materials can be found on the tutorial webpage.
• ICWSM'16: Emre, Onur, and I presented our short paper on distilling the outcomes of personal experiences from social media timelines.
• Gave a talk at Microsoft Research Redmond on "The True Colors of Depicting Real-World Events with Social Media", discusing pitfalls when using Twitter data to understand events.


March 2016
• Attended the AAAI Spring Symposia on Observational Studies through Social Media and Other Human-Generated Content to present our work on #BlackLivesMatter. You can check our short paper here.


January 2016
• I publicly defended my PhD Thesis on "Probing the Limits of Social Data", after I had the private defense in mid December.
• First time a PC member for ICWSM'16 and SIGIR'16 (short papers).