| 2024-09-20 |
📜 Two papers accepted at CSCW 2025: "Deplatforming Norm-Violating Influencers on Social Media Reduces Overall Online Attention Toward Them" and "Post Guidance for Online Communities"
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| 2024-09-20 |
📜 Paper accepted at Findings of the EMNLP 2025: "Can Language Models Recognize Convincing Arguments?"
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| 2024-06-06 |
🏆 Went to ICWSM, our paper (led by Peppe) won the best paper award! Hurray!
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| 2024-04-30 |
🎬 Gave a talk at the Social Computing Group at the University of Zürich — and took no pictures :(.
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| 2024-04-23 |
🎓 Successfully passed my thesis defense!
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| 2024-03-28 |
🎬 Gave a virtual talk at TeDCog Lab
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| 2024-03-08 |
🎬 Gave a talk at University of Washington
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| 2024-03-04 |
🎬 Gave a talk at Princeton
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| 2024-02-28 |
🎬 Gave a talk at Cornell
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| 2023-10-13 |
🤕 I hit the job market
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| 2023-06-13 |
☀️ This summer I'll work with Sid Suri and Teny Shapiro at Microsoft Research
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| 2023-06-07 |
🎬 Presented our paper on "The Amplification Paradox in Recommender Systems" at ICWSM! Peppe and Tiancheng also presented other work I was involved with!
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| 2023-02-07 |
🎬 Presented our paper on content removals at WWW!
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| 2023-03-15 |
📜 Three papers accepted at ICWSM 2023: "The Amplification Paradox in Recommender Systems", "Quotatives Indicate Decline in Objectivity in US Political News", and "Spillover of Antisocial Behavior from Fringe Platforms: The Unintended Consequences of Community Banning"
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| 2023-03-07 |
🏆 I am in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Class of 2023 in Science & Healthcare (Europe)
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| 2023-02-07 |
🎬 Gave a talk at the Raditube Workshop at Tec de Monterrey
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| 2023-01-31 |
📜 Paper accepted at WebSci 2023: "Understanding Online Migration Decisions Following the Banning of Radical Communities"
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| 2023-01-25 |
📜 Paper accepted at TheWebConf 2023: "Automated Content Moderation Increases Adherence to Community Guidelines"
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| 2022-12-16 |
🏆 I have received a Teaching Assistant Award at EPFL
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| 2022-12-08 |
🎬 Gave a talk at the ETH Chair of Systems Design
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| 2022-12-07 |
🎬 Gave an online talk at UFMG
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| 2022-07-20 |
🎬 Two oral presentations and two posters at IC2S2 2022!
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| 2022-06-15 |
🎬 Gave a second talk at Google Zurich
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| 2022-06-09 |
🏆 I have received a Best Reviewer Award at ICWSM 2022!
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| 2022-06-07 |
🎬 Presented our paper on post approvals at ICWSM!
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| 2022-05-09 |
🎬 Gave a talk at the ETH Immigration Policy Lab
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| 2022-03-30 |
📜 Paper accepted at Websci 2022: "Analyzing the Sleeping Giants Activism Model in Brazil"
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| 2022-03-18 |
📜 Paper accepted at CSCW 2022: "Characterizing Alternative Monetization Strategies on YouTube"
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| 2022-03-30 |
📜 Paper accepted at ICWSM 2022: "Post approvals in online communities"
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| 2021-11-02 |
📜 Paper out at Nature Scientific Reports: "Volunteer contributions to Wikipedia increased during COVID-19 mobility restrictions"
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| 2021-10-25 |
🎬 Presented our deplatforming work at CSCW
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| 2021-10-14 |
🏆 "Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation" received a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at CSCW 2021
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| 2021-08-25 |
📜 Paper out at Nature Communications: "Deep neural network-estimated electrocardiographic age as a mortality predictor "
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| 2021-06-27 |
🎬 Presented our deplatforming and our Wikipedia + COVID-19 work at IC2S2
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| 2020-02-13 |
🎬 Gave a talk at MILA (governance of AI discussion group)
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| 2021-06-08 |
🎬 Presented a couple of papers at ICWSM2021 in gather.town
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| 2021-06-07 |
☀️ This summer I'll work with Justin Cheng @ Facebook
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| 2021-04-23 |
🏆 I have received a Facebook fellowship award to continue my ongoing work on understanding and improving our information ecosystem
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| 2021-04-13 |
📜 Paper accepted at WebSci 2021: "Are Anti-Feminist Communities Gateways to the Far Right? Evidence from Reddit and YouTube
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| 2021-03-24 |
📜 Paper accepted at CSCW 2021: "Does Platform Migration Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels"
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| 2021-03-19 |
📜 Dataset paper accepted at ICWSM 2021: "YouNiverse: Large-Scale Channel and Video Metadata from English-Speaking YouTube"
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| 2020-11-20 |
🏆 My MSc thesis was won 3rd place in the SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) Master Thesis Awards
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| 2020-07-15 |
📜 Two papers accepted at ICWSM 2021: "The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web" and "Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia During the COVID-19 Crisis"
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| 2020-04-09 |
📜 Paper out at Nature Communications: "Automatic diagnosis of the 12-lead ECG using a deep neural network", check photo for picture of 1/4th of authors
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| 2020-02-13 |
🎬 Gave a talk at Google Zurich
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| 2020-01-28 |
🎬 Presented "Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube" at FAT*2020 in Barcelona
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| 2019-12-17 |
🏆 "Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube" was considered one of the top 100 most influential papers in 2019 (3rd in Computer Science)
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| 2019-11-20 |
📜 Paper accepted at FAT*2020: "Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube"
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| 2019-08-31 |
🎒Moved to Switzerland to do my PhD @ EPFL!
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| 2019-08-13 |
🎓 Defended my MSc Thesis: "Misinformation, Radicalization and Hate Through the Lens of Users"
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| 2019-05-19 |
🎬 Presented "Message Distortion in Information Cascades" at the TheWebConf 2019, in San Francisco
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| 2019-01-21 |
📜 Paper accepted at TheWebConf 2019: "Message Distortion in Information Cascades"
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| 2018-10-24 |
🏆 Google will be sponsoring my MSc research through their Latin America Research Award
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| 2018-07-01 |
☀️ This summer I'll work with Bob West at the Summer@EPFL program
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| 2018-07-22 |
🎬 Presented "Characterizing and Detecting Hateful Users on Twitter" in ICWSM 2018, at Stanford
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| 2018-03-22 |
📜 Paper accepted at ICWSM 2018: "Characterizing and Detecting Hateful Users on Twitter"
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| 2017-08-12 |
🎒 Attended the Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School
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| 2017-08-01 |
🎒 Joined UFMG MSc program
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| 2017-07-26 |
🏆 Won Best Graduating Student Award for my BSc degree at UFMG
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| 2017-07-19 |
🎓 Got a BSc in Computer Science from UFMG in a super formal ceremony
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