News & Announcements

05.2026. publication Our multilingual (English, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese), multinational (USA, UK, Ukraine, Russia, and China), and longitudinal (31 months) corpus on the Russo-Ukrainian war is published in LREC 2026.  
The corpus is dubbed dnipro — Diverse Narratives and International Perspectives on the Russo-Ukrainian Offensive — and released as a public resource on Zenodo:
  •   https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20433469
01.2026. phd Chenlu Wang defends her Ph.D. on Pragmatic Language Understanding and Information Integrity. Dr. Wang will begin her next chapter as a Research Scientist at Meta..
12.2025. publication Two publications at IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, IEEE BIBM 2025:
  On evidence-based reasoning across languages  
  On medical expert identification  
Collaborators: Chaoyuan Zuo, Nankai University
09.2025. award We are awarded a research grant by the Society of Family Planning to study misinformation and disinformation surrounding contraception.
09.2025. publication Vishnu Raja’s work on dysarthric speech @ EMNLP 2025.   
Collaborators: H. Andrew Schwartz @ Vanderbilt University
06.2025. publication Yunik Tamrakar and Ethan Myers publish their work on Android app permission fidelity @ Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST 2025).   
Collaborators: Dr. Lorenzo De Carli @ University of Calgary and Dr. Indrakshi Ray @ Colorado State University
05.2025. publication Chenlu Wang’s work on class distillation @ ACL 2025.   
12.2024. award We are awarded a research grant from the AI Innovation Institute to decode argumentation and fallacies in digital media.
Collaborators: Dr. Ruobing Li, School of Communication & Journalism, Stony Brook University
05.2024. publication Our work on detecting whataboutism in media introduces a novel mechanism of hard negative mining @ Findings of ACL 2024.   
04.2024. phd Noushin Salek Faramarzi defends her Ph.D.  ⇒  Natural Language Understanding @ Boeing.
01.2024. award We are awarded a pilot research grant from the Stony Brook School of Medicine to investigate natural language signals of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients.
Collaborators: Dr. Farrukh Koraishy, Stony Brook School of Medicine
09.2023. award We are awarded an NSF EAGER research grant to investigate medical data against privacy laws.
Collaborators: Dr. Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University
01.2023. award We receive a SUNY Multidisciplinary Small Team Award to identify natural language predictors of chronic kidney disease in patients with PTSD.
Collaborators: Dr. Farrukh Koraishy, Stony Brook School of Medicine
10.2021. phd Chaoyuan Zuo defends her Ph.D.  ⇒  School of Journalism and Communication, Nankai University.
09.2020. publication Chaoyuan Zuo and Narayan Acharya publish their research on cross-genre information retrieval @ EMNLP 2020.   
06.2019. publication Chaoyuan Zuo’s research on identification of “check-worthy” claims is invited to the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2019.   
05.2018. award We are awarded an NSF EAGER research grant to study cross-genre semantic changes in health-related information presented and disseminated by traditional and social media.