Academic

Teaching & Tutorials

  • BEM 1025 Programming for Business Analytics (undergraduate course), Spring 2021, University of Exeter Business School, Module leader.
  • BEM 466 Business Analytics Projects (graduate course), Summer 2021, University of Exeter Business School, Module contributor.
  • BEM 2031 Introduction to Business Analytics (undergraduate course), Spring 2021, University of Exeter Business School, Module contributor.
  • Multi-Agent Socio-Technical Systems (graduate course), Fall 2016, School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Inst. of Tech., Course development and co-instructor
  • Analysis of Networks and Strategies (undergraduate course), Fall 2016, School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Inst. of Tech., Guest lecture
  • Systems Thinking (graduate course), Spring 2016, School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Inst. of Tech. , Guest lecture
  • Research Methodology (graduate course), Fall 2016, School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Inst. of Tech. Guest lecture
  • Database Knowledge Discovery (graduate course), Fall 2013, School of Business, Stevens Inst. of Tech. Teaching Assistant
  • Business Research Methods (graduate course), Fall 2010, Graduate School of Management and Economics, Sharif University of Tech. Teaching Assistant
  • Designing and Conducting Online Experimental Studies in Social Networks, European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges (EuroCSS), Zurich, Switzerland, Sep 2019
  • Experimental Social Networks: Designing and Conducting Large-Scale Experiments on Networks using Crowdsourcing, 6th International Computational Social Science Conference (IC2S2), Amsterdam, July 2019
  • Online Interactive Behavioral Experiments on Networks: An experimental paradigm to study socio-technical networked systems, 11th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci), Boston, June 2019

Invited Talks

  • [T.32] Understanding and reducing misinformation online, London Judgment and Decision Making seminars, UCL, Oct 2021
  • [T.31] Keynote Speaker, Understanding and reducing misinformation online, UM6P School of Collective Intelligence, Morocco, June 2021
  • [T.30] “Understanding and reducing misinformation online”, Computational Social Science Seminar Series, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut fr Sozialwissenschaften, 2021
  • [T.29] “Understanding and reducing misinformation online”, Social Dynamic Group, Nokia Bell Labs 2021
  • [T.28] “Combating inaccurate information online”, Novel Behavioral Models in Social Networks session, INFORMS 2021
  • [T.27] Understanding and reducing inaccurate information online, Social Data Science interest group, Alan Turing Institute, May 2021
  • [T.26] “Combating Misinformation on Social Media”, Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), Beijing, June 2021
  • [T.25] Reducing inaccurate and biased information online, Workshop on Misinformation Integrity in Social Networks, the WWW conference, April 2021
  • [T.24] Reducing inaccurate and biased information online, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Mar 2021
  • [T.23] Inaccurate and biased information online, Exeter Centre for Social Networks, Mar 2021
  • [T.22] The role of data vis-a-vis the relation between misinformation and democracy, Data Crunch Seminar Series, University Exeter, Feb 2021
  • [T.21] Misinformation on social media, Zero Hour Podcast, Jan 2021
  • [T.20] “Tech + Democracy Seminar Series, Hosted by the Centre for Cognition, Computation, & Modelling ”, Invited Panelist, Birkbeck University London, Nov 2020
  • [T.19] “Inaccurate and Biased Information on Social Media ”, TEDx, Dec 2020
  • [T.18] “Inaccurate and Biased Information on Social Networks ”, Credibility Coalition, Oct 2020
  • [T.17] “Fake news and echo chambers on social media: Evidence from digital field experiments on Twitter”, Marketing Seminar, Sloan School of Management, MIT, Sep 2020
  • [T.16] “Inaccurate and Biased Information on Social Networks ”, School of Business, Exeter University, July 2020
  • [T.15] “Inaccurate and Biased Information on Social Networks ”, School of Information, University of Toronto, July 2020
  • [T.14] “Inaccurate and Biased Information on Social Networks ”, Surrey University, Department of Computer Science , June 2020
  • [T.13] “Understanding and reducing misinformation shared online ”, Data Science In-Depth Seminar Series, Jupiter Networks Inc, May 2020
  • [T.12] “Helping or Trolling: Receptivity of users to corrective messages on social media”, Social Analytic Lab (Host: Prof. Dean Eckles), Feb 2020
  • [T.11] “Inaccurate and Biased Information on Social Networks”, University of Edinburgh, Institute of Language, cognition, and computation, March 2020
  • [T.10] “Inaccurate and Biased Information on Social Networks”, State University of New York Albany, College of Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security April 2020
  • [T.9] “Inaccurate and Biased Information on Social Networks”, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Feb 2020
  • [T.8] “Fighting Misinformation on Social Media”, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, Feb 2020
  • [T.7] “Collective Decisions on Networks”, Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), Boston, June 2019
  • [T.6] “Cognitive Style and Online Behavior”, Department of Psychology, Boston University, February 2019
  • [T.5] “Digital Fingerprints of Cognitive Reflection”, Behavioral Lab, MIT, April 2019
  • [T.4] “Digital Fingerprints of Cognitive Reflection”, Social Analytics Lab (Host: Prof. Dean Eckles), April 2019
  • [T.3] “Digital Fingerprints of Cognitive Reflection”, MIT Media Lab (Host: Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland), March 2019
  • [T.2] “Dynamics of Voting Coordination: An Experimental Study”, Yale Institute of Network Science (YINS; Host: Prof. Nicholas Christakis), February 2018
  • [T.1] “Architecture of Socio-Technical Networked Systems”, Department of Psychology, Yale University, March 2017

Invited Expert/Project Leader

  • Computational Social Science Summer School, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences. Sardinia, Italy, Summer 2019

– Lecture on Natural Language Processing for Computational Social Science

– Lecture on Computational Modeling on ABM on Complex Networks

– Project leader on social media and integration of refugees

Program Committee

  • Computational Social Science Conference (IC2S2), 2020
  • Computational Social Science School, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences.

Session Chair

  • IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon) 2016
  • 5th International Engineering Systems Symposium (CESUN 2016)

Journal Reviewer

  • Nature Scientific Reports
  • IEEE ACCESS
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • IEEE Systems Journal
  • Wiley Complexity Journal
  • Cambridge Design Science Journal
  • Wiley Systems Engineering Journal
  • Wiley Systems Research and Behavioral Science
  • Emerald Journal of Management Development

Conference Reviewer

  • Conference of Systems Engineering Research (CSER) 2017
  • 5th International Engineering Systems Symposium (CESUN) 2016
  • 4th International Engineering Systems Symposium (CESUN) 2014
  • Conference of Systems Engineering Research (CSER) 2014

Student Supervision (Mentorship)

  • Undergraduate Student, Computer Science (Yale University)
  • Undergraduate Student, Psychology (Yale University)
  • Undergraduate Student, Double major in Computer Science and Psychology (Yale University)
  • Undergraduate Student, Double major in Computer Science and Data Science (University of California, Berkley)
  • Masters student, Thesis in Systems Engineering (Stevens Institute of Tech.)