Service
Tutorials & Teaching
2022 Applying NLP & ML for CSS: Case Studies in Public Health web
Yelena Mejova @ Text mining and Natural Language Processing for Computational Social Sciences Summer School
2020 Digital Epidemiology web
Daniela Paolotti, Nicola Perra, Yelena Mejova @ University of Torino, graduate level class
2019 Modeling Human Values with Social Media web
Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri @ International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)
2019 Social Media for Lifestyle Health web
Yelena Mejova @ Summer School on Methods in Computational Social Science (CSS)
2017 Social Media for Health Research web
Ingmar Weber, Yelena Mejova, Kenneth Goodman @ International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
Ingmar Weber, Yelena Mejova @ International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)
2015 Language of Politics on Twitter web
Yelena Mejova @ AI Summer School at American University in Beirut
2013 Twitter and the Real World web
Yelena Mejova and Ingmar Weber @ ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
Workshops & Panels
2023 Cyber Social Threats web
Yelena Mejova, Ugur Kursuncu, Jeremy Blackburn, Kaicheng Yang, Francesco Pierri, Matthew DeVerna
@ workshop at the Web Conference (WebConf)
2023 Data for the Wellbeing of Most Vulnerable web
Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Daniela Paolotti
@ workshop at International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
2022 Cyber Social Threats web
Yelena Mejova, Ugur Kursuncu, Jeremy Blackburn, Megan Squire, Kaicheng Yang, Francesco Pierri, Matthew DeVerna
@ workshop at International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
2022 Data for the Wellbeing of Most Vulnerable web
Yelena Mejova, Rumi Chunara, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Daniela Paolotti
@ workshop at International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
2021 Cyber Social Threats web
Yelena Mejova, Ugur Kursuncu, Jeremy Blackburn, Amit Sheth, Megan Squire
@ workshop at International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
2021 Data for the Wellbeing of Most Vulnerable web
Yelena Mejova, Rumi Chunara, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Daniela Paolotti
@ workshop at International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
2020 Cyber Social Threats web
Yelena Mejova, Ugur Kursuncu, Jeremy Blackburn, Amit Sheth
@ workshop at International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
2019 IUSSP Panel on Digital Demography web
Steering Committee Member
@ International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (UISSP)
2019 Data for the Wellbeing of Most Vulnerable web
Yelena Mejova, Rumi Chunara, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Daniela Paolotti
@ workshop at International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
2018 Social Media and Health: Methods for Linking Online and Offline Data web
Yelena Mejova, Rumi Chunara, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Michael Paul
@ workshop at International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
2016 Big Data & Social Media for Empowering Patients with Diabetes web
Luis Fernandez-Luque, Yelena Mejova, Miguel-Angel Mayer, Per Erlend Hasvold, Surabhi Joshi
@ panel at International Congress on Nursing Informatics (NI)
2015 Religion on Social Media web
Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber, Lu Chen, Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn
@ workshop at International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
2014 Interaction and Exchange in Social Media web
Rossano Schifanella, Bogdan State, Yelena Mejova
@ workshop at International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo)
Chairing
2024 Program Chair web
Yelena Mejova, Oshani Seneviratne, Luca Maria Aiello @ ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci)
2023 Track Chair: Web & Society web
Yelena Mejova, Lexing Xie, Juhi Kulshrestha @ Web Conference (WebConf), previously WWW
2022 General Chair web
Yelena Mejova, Diyi Yang @ International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
2020 Data Track Chair web
Yelena Mejova, Claudia Wagner @ International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
2019 PhD Track Chair web
Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri @ ACM Conference on Digital Public Health (DPH)
2018 Program Chair web
Patty Kostkova, Carlos Castillo, Floriana Grasso, Yelena Mejova, Michael Edelstein @ ACM Conference on Digital Health (DH)
2018 Program Chair web
Yelena Mejova, Ekaterina Chernyak @ Russian Summer School on Information Retrieval (RuSSIR)
2018 Track Program Chair: Social Network Analysis and Graph Algorithms for the Web web
Yelena Mejova, Francesco Bonchi, Leman Akoglu @ World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
2017 Program Chair web
Patty Kostkova, Carlos Castillo, Floriana Grasso, Yelena Mejova @ ACM Conference on Digital Health (DH)
2016 Track Chair: Social Computing for Health track web
Yelena Mejova, Sofiane Abbar, Hamed Haddadi @ ACM Conference on Digital Health (DH)
2016 Track Chair: PhD Track and Health Challenge web
Yelena Mejova, Patty Kostkova, Luis Fernandez-Luque, Guido Giunti, Hamed Haddadi @ ACM Conference on Digital Health (DH)
Editing
2023-currently EPJ Data Science web
Co-Editor-in-Chief.
2021-2022 EPJ Data Science web
Associate editor.
2020 Online Social Networks and Media special issue on Disinformation, Hoaxes and Propaganda web
Guest editor along with Marinella Petrocchi and Carolina Scarton. OSNEM.
2019 Frontiers in Digital Health: Responsible Big Data Solutions for Public Health web
Co-editor. Frontiers.
2016 Frontiers in Public Health Research Topic: Digital Data for Nutrition, Healthy Eating and Exercise web
Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber, Hamed Haddadi, Patty Kostkova. Frontiers.
2015 Twitter: A Digital Socioscope web
Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber, Michael Macy. Cambridge University Press.
2014 Quantifying Politics Using Online Data web
Yelena Mejova and Ingmar Weber as guest editors @ Social Science Computer Review, April 2014; 32 (2)
Reviewing
Journals
EPJ Data Science 2018 (Associate Editor 2021, 2022)
Advances in Complex Systems (2023)
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
Computers in Human Behavior 2022
Frontiers 2017, 2020
Health and Technology (Springer) 2019
Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2019
npj Digital Medicine 2018
Communications of the ACM (CACM) 2017
Computers in Human Behavior (CHB) 2017
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) 2017
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DAMI) 2016
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) 2016
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2014, 2015, 2016
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC) 2015, 2016
Social Science Computer Review (SSCR) 2014
Springer: Language Resources and Evaluation (LREV) 2013
INFORMS Journal on Computing (JOC) 2013
Conferences
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 (Chair), 2019, 2020, 2021 SPC, 2022 SPC
International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 (Outstanding Reviewer), 2020 SPC, 2022-2024 SPC
International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo) 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020 (SPC), 2022
ACM Conference On User Modelling, Adaptation And Personalization (UMAP) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 SPC
ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) 2021, 2022
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023 (Area Chair)
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 - 2024
ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT) 2022
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2015, 2016, 2021 SPC
Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI) 2016, 2021-23 (Associate Chair)
International Conference on Image Analysis, Social Networks and Texts (AIST) 2015, 2016, 2017
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) 2020
European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery (ECMLPKDD) 2016
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (KDD) 2018
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2018
Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Conference (AINL) 2016, 2017
European Symposium on Computational Social Science (ESCSS) 2017, 2018, 2019
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2016
International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) 2015
Workshops
Workshop on Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks (MAISoN) @ WebConf 2022
Workshop on Social Data Mining in the post-pandemic Era (SDM) @ ICDM 2021
Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (ROMCIR) @ ECIR 2020
Workshop on Machine Learning in Public Health @ NeurIPS 2020
Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC) @ LREC 2020
Workshop on Social Informatics for Social Good (SISG) @ SocInfo 2019
Workshop on Health Recommender Systems (HealthRecSys) @ RecSys 2019, 2020
Workshop on Data Science for Social Good (WDSSG) @ WebConf 2019, 2021
Workshop on Social Human Behavior Analysis through Online Social Networks and Media @ ASONAM 2018
Workshop on Data Science, Journalism & Media (DSJM) @ KDD 2018
Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP) @ EACL 2017, 2019
Workshop on Social News on the Web (SNOW) @ WWW Conference 2013, 2016, 2017
Workshop on News and Public Opinion (NECO) @ ICWSM 2016, 2017, 2020
PhD Workshop @ CIKM 2014, 2015
#Microposts @ WWW 2016
Workshop on MIning DAta for financial applicationS (MIDAS) @ ECML-PKDD 2016, 2018, 2019 - 2023
Agencies
National Science Foundation (USA) 2015
Service
Member of ACM-W scholarship committee, since 2018