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)

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

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)

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, 2022-2023 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, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

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, 2020, 2021, 2022

Agencies

National Science Foundation (USA) 2015

Service

Member of ACM-W scholarship program committee 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021