Happy to share that our paper “Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-based Approach for the Fediverse” is accepted at ICWSM 2024. This is from my QMUL visit w/ Ignacio Castro @[email protected] Gareth Tyson Aravindh Raman Ahmed M. A. Sayed Nishanth Sastry (nsastry@masto Don.social). Preprint soon!

Our review at Trends Cell Biology on new opportunities for AI-guided analysis of images and movies! Thanks to Innovate UK and Queen Mary University of London QM_SBBS for supporting the work! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A quick post by Lori Wright on how we engage with the public in our AP4L project. A good practice we borrowed from healthcare research, and which we think might be useful for many security & privacy research projects.

CoNEXT'23 comprehensive study of several major satellite network operators -- GEO, MEO and LEO -- from various public datasets, M-Lab, Ripe and a home-rolled browser plugin + prolific to identify satellite network users' perf. Led by Aravindh Raman Matteo Varvello Yasir Zaki & Chang

Tomorrow on the Networking Channel at 4pm UTC: LEO Satellite Mega Constellations – the 'New Space' potential – networkingchannel.eu/leo-satellite-… with Ranveer Chandra, Brandon Lucia, Aravindh Raman, Cristel Pelsser, François Michel and Lili Qiu. [Free, but Registration needed.]

Professor Viji Draviam spoke about how #AI is improving her team's capacity to track how cells respond to drugs, which could turn into new treatments for cancer or heart disease. Listen again from 1:32:28: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

I am actively looking for a postdoc here at Fudan University. Prospective research areas include social computing, Internet architectures, and network security. The working environment here is international, and the salary is competitive. Let me know if you are interested.

Our ap4lproject blog post for this month offers a fascinating insight into there methodology used by Ryan Colin Gibson and Wendy Moncur to understand the privacy needs of vulnerable populations.

I log back in to Twitter, and find this?! Real loss! RIP Ross!

I am serving as a PC Co-chair of ASONAM Conference #ASONAM24 along with two wonderful colleagues Luca Maria Aiello - @[email protected] and Sabrina Gaito. The paper deadline has been extended to April 30. We look forward to reading wonderful papers. asonam.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/2024

Top class reporting from the BBC about the deep down intimate details of Trump trial :)

Looking forward to the fantastic program at TMA. Glad to have the opportunity to talk about the emerging field of LEO measurements.

Quickly becoming the go to workshop for LEO networking research. Well worth attending — send your best papers 👇🏿

Catch me tomorrow (5 June) at 10am EDT lightning talk session ICWSM if you are interested in conversational perspective for moderating content in decentralised platforms such as Pleroma and Mastodon. Work with Ignacio Castro @[email protected] Aravindh Raman Nishanth Sastry (nsastry@masto Don.social) Ahmed M. A. Sayed Gareth Tyson.

We are recruiting! If you have a PhD in NLP/ML & tackling challenges in #longitudinal #NLP sounds like something up your street, consider applying for this PDRA role in the Economic and Social Research Council funded MetaCurate-ML project Computer Science jobs.surrey.ac.uk/031124

Presenting our work with Ionut Bostan & Nishanth Sastry (nsastry@masto Don.social) on Emotion-aware #TTS ASONAM Conference in UniCal, Italy.

Our research in Scientific Reports presents a probabilistic label tree for structured ICD code prediction. This approach leverages the hierarchical structure of ICD labels, demonstrating competitive performance on the MIMIC-III database. Full details here. go.nature.com/3ZcFKRc