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2017

Fairness Beyond Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact: Learning Classification Without Disparate Mistreatment
Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Isabel Valera, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez and Krishna P. Gummadi. 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2017.

Optimizing the Recency-Relevancy Trade-off in Online News Recommendations
Abhijnan Chakraborty, Saptarshi Ghosh, Niloy Ganguly and Krishna P. Gummadi. 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2017.

Quantifying Search Bias: Investigating Sources of Bias for Political Searches in Social Media
Juhi Kulshrestha, Motahhare Eslami, Johnnatan Messias, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Saptarshi Ghosh, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Karrie G. Karahalios. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2017.

2016

The Case for Process Fairness in Learning: Feature Selection for Fair Decision Making
Nina Grgić-Hlača, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Adrian Weller. NIPS Symposium on Machine Learning and the Law, 2016.
Best paper award

Fairness Beyond Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact: Learning Classification Without Disparate Mistreatment
Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Isabel Valera, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez and Krishna P. Gummadi. Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning (FAT-ML), 2016.

The Case for Temporal Transparency: Detecting Policy Change Events in Black-Box Decision Making Systems
Miguel Ferreira, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Isabel Valera, and Krishna P. Gummadi. Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning (FAT-ML), 2016.

On the Free Bridge Across the Digital Divide: Assessing the Quality of Facebook's Free Basics Service
Rijurekha Sen, Hasnain Ali Pirzada, Amreesh Phokeer, Zaid Ahmed Farooq, Satadal Sengupta, David Choffnes, and Krishna P. Gummadi. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2016.

On Profile Linkability Despite Anonymity in Social Media Systems
Michael Backes, Pascal Berrang, Oana Goga, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Praveen Manoharan. Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), 2016.

R-Susceptibility: An IR-Centric Approach to Assessing Privacy Risks for Users in Online Communities
Joanna Asia Biega, Krishna P. Gummadi, Ida Mele, Dragan Milchevski, Christos Tryfonopoulos, and Gerhard Weikum. Annual SIGIR Conference (SIGIR), 2016.

Forgetting in Social Media: Understanding and Controlling Longitudinal Exposure of Socially Shared Data
Mainack Mondal, Johnnatan Messias, Saptarshi Ghosh, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Aniket Kate. Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (SOUPS), 2016.

Message Impartiality in Social Media Discussions
Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Krishna P. Gummadi and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2016.

Distinguishing between Topical and Non-topical Information Diffusion Mechanisms in Social Media
Premyslaw Grabowicz, Niloy Ganguly, and Krishna P. Gummadi. International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2016.

Strengthening Weak Identities Through Inter-Domain Trust Transfer
Giridhari Venkatadri, Oana Goga, Changtao Zhong, Bimal Viswanath, Krishna P. Gummadi and Nishanth Sastry. International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2016.

On the Efficiency of Information Networks in Social Media,
Mahmoudreza Babaei, Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Isabel Valera, Krishna P. Gummadi and Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez. ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2016.

On the Wisdom of Experts vs. Crowds: Discovering Trustworthy Topical News in Microblogs
Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Parantapa Bhattacharya, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh and Krishna P. Gummadi. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2016.

2015

Learning Fair Classifiers
Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Isabel Valera, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez and Krishna P. Gummadi. arXiv:1507.05259 , 2015.

The Doppelganger Bot Attack: Exploring Identity Impersonation in Online Social Networks
Oana Goga, Giridhari Venkatadri and Krishna P. Gummadi. Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2015.

Extracting Situational Information from Microblogs during Disaster Events: A Classification-Summarization Approach
Koustav Rudra, Subham Ghosh, Niloy Ganguly, Pawan Goyal, and Saptarshi Ghosh. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2015.

Strength in Numbers: Robust Tamper Detection in Crowd Computations (to appear)
Bimal Viswanath, Muhammad Ahmad Bashir, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Simon Bouget, Saikat Guha, Krishna P. Gummadi, Aniket Kate and Alan Mislove. ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN), 2015.
Best paper award

Can Trending News Stories Create Coverage Bias? On the Impact of High Content Churn in Online News Media
Abhijnan Chakraborty, Saptarshi Ghosh, Niloy Ganguly and Krishna P. Gummadi. Computation+Journalism Symposium , 2015.

Reverse Engineering Socialbot Infiltration Strategies in the Twitter Social Network
Carlos Freitas, Fabricio Benevenuto, Saptarshi Ghosh, and Adriano Veloso. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2015.

On the Reliability of Profile Matching Across Large Online Social Networks
Oana Goga, Patrick Loiseau, Robin Sommer, Renata Teixeira and Krishna P. Gummadi. ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2015.

Fairness Constraints: A Mechanism for Fair Classification
Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Isabel Valera, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez and Krishna P. Gummadi. Workshop on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Machine Learning (FAT-ML), 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2015.

Sampling Content from Online Social Networks: Comparing Random vs. Expert Sampling of the Twitter Stream
Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Parantapa Bhattacharya, Niloy Ganguly, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Saptarshi Ghosh. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Volume 9, Issue 3, 2015.

Characterizing Information Diets of Social Media Users
Juhi Kulshrestha, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Lisette Espin Noboa, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Saptarshi Ghosh. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2015.

The Many Shades of Anonymity: Characterizing Anonymous Social Media Content
Denzil Correa, Leandro Araújo Silva, Mainack Mondal, Fabrício Benevenuto and Krishna P. Gummadi. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2015.

On the Users' Efficiency in the Twitter Information Network
Mahmoudreza Babaei, Przemyslaw Grobowicz, Isabel Valera, Krishna Gummadi, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Short Paper, 2015.

#FewThingsAboutIdioms: Understanding Idioms and its Users in the Twitter Online Social Network
Koustav Rudra, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Manav Sethi, Shreyasi Das, Niloy Ganguly and Saptarshi Ghosh. Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2015.

Extracting Situational Awareness from Microblogs during Disaster Events
Anirban Sen, Koustav Rudra and Saptarshi Ghosh. Social Networking Workshop in conjuction with International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS), 2015.

2014

Inferring User Interests in the Twitter Social Network
Parantapa Bhattacharya, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh and Krishna Gummadi. ACM Recommender System Conference (RecSys), Short Paper, 2014.

People on Drugs: Credibility of User Statements in Health Communities
Subhabrata Mukherjee, Gerhard Weikum and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2014.

Towards Detecting Anomalous User Behavior in Online Social Networks
Bimal Viswanath, Muhammad Ahmad Bashir, Mark Crovella, Saikat Guha, Krishna Gummadi, Balachander Krishnamurthy and Alan Mislove. Usenix Security Symposium, 2014.

Understanding and Specifying Social Access Control Lists
Mainack Mondal, Yabing Liu, Bimal Viswanath, Krishna P. Gummadi and Alan Mislove. Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2014.
Distinguished paper award

How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior
Justin Cheng, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Jure Leskovec. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2014.

How to Ask for a Favor: A Case Study on the Success of Altruistic Requests
Tim Althoff, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Dan Jurafsky. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2014.

Quantifying Information Overload in Social Media and its Impact on Social Contagions
Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, Krishna P. Gummadi and Bernhard Schoelkopf. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2014.

Does Content Determine Information Popularity in Social Media? A Case Study of YouTube Videos' Content and their Popularity
Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara Almeida, Fabricio Benevenuto and Krishna P. Gummadi. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Short Paper, 2014.

Beyond Access Control: Managing Online Privacy via Exposure
Mainack Mondal, Peter Druschel, Krishna P. Gummadi and Alan Mislove. Workshop on Usable Security (USEC), 2014.

Deep Twitter Diving: Exploring Topical Groups in Microblogs at Scale
Parantapa Bhattacharya, Saptarshi Ghosh, Juhi Kulshrestha, Mainack Mondal, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Niloy Ganguly, and Krishna P. Gummadi. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2014.

2013

On Sampling the Wisdom of Crowds: Random vs. Expert Sampling of the Twitter Stream
Saptarshi Ghosh, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Parantapa Bhattacharya, Naveen Sharma, Niloy Ganguly and Krishna P. Gummadi. International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Short Paper, 2013.

No country for old members: User lifecycle and linguistic change in online communities
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Robert West, Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec and Christopher Potts. World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2013.
Best paper award

A computational approach to politeness with application to social factors
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Moritz Sudhof, Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec and Christopher Potts. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2013.

2012

Defending against large-scale crawls in online social networks
Mainack Mondal, Bimal Viswanath, Allen Clement, Peter Druschel, Krishna P. Gummadi, Alan Mislove and Ansley Post. ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CONEXT), December 2012.

Predicting Emerging Social Conventions in Online Social Networks
Farshad Kooti, Winter Mason, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Meeyoung Cha. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), October 2012.

Keeping Information Safe from Social Networking Apps
Bimal Viswanath, Emre Kiciman and Stefan Saroiu. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), August 2012.

Cognos: Crowdsourcing Search for Topic Experts in Microblogs
Saptarshi Ghosh, Naveen Kumar Sharma, Fabricio Benevenuto, Niloy Ganguly, and Krishna P. Gummadi. Annual SIGIR Conference (SIGIR), August 2012.

Inferring Who-is-Who in the Twitter Social Network
Naveen Kumar Sharma, Saptarshi Ghosh, Fabricio Benevenuto, Niloy Ganguly, and Krishna P. Gummadi. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), August 2012.

Geographical Dissection of the Twitter Network
Juhi Kulshrestha, Farshad Kooti, Ashkan Nikravesh, and Krishna Gummadi. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Dublin, Ireland, June 2012.

The Emergence of Conventions in Online Social Networks
Farshad Kooti, Haeryun Yang, Meeyoung Cha, Krishna Gummadi, and Winter A. Mason. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Dublin, Ireland, June 2012.
Best paper award

Understanding and Combating Link Farming in the Twitter Social Network
Saptarshi Ghosh, Bimal Viswanath, Farshad Kooti, Naveen Kumar Sharma, Korlam Gautam, Fabricio Benevenuto, Niloy Ganguly, and Krishna P. Gummadi. World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Lyon, France, April 2012.

Canal: Scaling social network-based Sybil tolerance schemes
Bimal Viswanath, Mainack Mondal, Krishna P. Gummadi, Alan Mislove, and Ansley Post. European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Bern, Switzerland, April 2012.

Exploring the design space of social network-based Sybil defenses
Bimal Viswanath, Mainack Mondal, Allen Clement, Peter Druschel, Krishna P. Gummadi, Alan Mislove, and Ansley Post. International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), invited paper, Bangalore, India, January 2012.

2011

On Word-of-Mouth Based Discovery of the Web
Tiago Rodrigues, Fabricio Benevenuto, Meeyoung Cha, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Virgilio Almeida. Usenix/ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Berlin, Germany, November 2011.

Analyzing Facebook privacy settings: User expectations vs. reality
Yabing Liu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Balachander Krishnamurthy, and Alan Mislove. Usenix/ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Berlin, Germany, November 2011.

Media landscape in Twitter: A World of New Conventions and Political Diversity
Jisun An, Meeyoung Cha, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Jon Crowcroft. International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.

Sharing Social Content from Home: A Measurement-driven Feasibility Analysis
Massimiliano Marcon, Bimal Viswanath, Meeyoung Cha, and Krishna P. Gummadi. International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Vancouver, Canada, June 2011.

Bazaar: Strengthening user reputations in online marketplaces
Ansley Post, Vijit Shah, and Alan Mislove. Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, March 2011.

2010

Addressing the Privacy Management Crisis in Online Social Networks
Krishna P. Gummadi, Alan Mislove, and Balachander Krishnamurthy. IAB Workshop on Internet Privacy, Boston, MA, December 2010. (Position Paper)

An Analysis of Social Network-based Sybil Defenses
Bimal Viswanath, Ansley Post, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Alan Mislove. ACM SIGCOMM 2010 (SIGCOMM), New Delhi, India, August 2010.

Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy
Meeyoung Cha, Hamed Haddadi, Fabricio Benevenuto,and Krishna P. Gummadi. International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Washington, DC, May 2010.

You are who you know: Inferring user profiles in Online Social Networks
Alan Mislove, Bimal Viswanath, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Peter Druschel. ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), New York, NY, February 2010.

2009

Characterizing User Behavior in Online Social Networks
Fabrício Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Meeyoung Cha, and Virgílio Almeida. Usenix/ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Chicago, Illinois, November 2009.

On the Evolution of User Interaction in Facebook
Bimal Viswanath, Alan Mislove, Meeyoung Cha, and Krishna P. Gummadi. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Social Networks (WOSN), Barcelona, Spain, August 2009.

A Measurement-driven Analysis of Information Propagation in the Flickr Social Network
Meeyoung Cha, Alan Mislove, and Krishna P. Gummadi. World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Madrid, Spain, April 2009
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2008

Growth of the Flickr social network
Alan Mislove, Hema Swetha Koppula, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, Bobby Bhattacharjee. Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), Seattle, August 2008.

Characterizing Social Cascades in Flickr
Meeyoung Cha, Alan Mislove, Ben Adams, Krishna P. Gummadi. Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), Seattle, August 2008.

Ostra: Leveraging trust to thwart unwanted communication
Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, Krishna P.Gummadi, Peter Druschel. Conference of Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Francisco, CA, April 2008.

2007

Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks
Alan Mislove, Massilmiliano Marcon, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, Bobby Bhattacharjee. ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), San Diego, CA, October 2007.

Exploiting Social Interactions in Mobile Systems
Andrew G. Miklas, Kiran K. Gollu, Kelvin K.W. Chan, Stefan Saroiu, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Eyal de Lara. International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), Innsbruck, Austria, September 2007.

2006

Exploiting Social Networks for Internet Search
Alan Mislove, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel. Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), Irvine, CA, November 2006

News

Saptarshi Ghosh is awarded a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
July 2014

Mainack Mondal, Bimal Viswanath and Krishna Gummadi, along with their co-authors win SOUPS distinguished paper award
July 2014

Juhi Kulshrestha receives Google Anita Borg Scholarship
May 2013

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil wins WWW best paper award
May 2013