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Aniko Hannak

About me

I am a Phd student in the College of Computer & Information Science at Northeastern University. My advisors are Alan Mislove and David Lazer. In my research I am investigating the impacts of personalization in various Web sevices. I am also interested in data mining and measurements on online social networks and learning new tools for analyzing large data sets. For my detailed resume please see my cv.


Email: ancsaaa at ccs dot neu dot edu

Publications

Papers

Posters and presentations

Current Projects

Fact-Cheking interventions on Online Social Networks

The prevalence of misinformation within social media and online communities can undermine public security and distract attention from important issues. Fact-checking interventions, in which users cite fact-checking websites such as Snopes.com and Factcheck.org, are a strategy users can employ to refute false claims made by their peers. We use data from Online Social Networks such as Twitter to find these conversations and to examine the contexts and consequences of fact-checking interventions. Our preliminary results suggest that though fact-checking interventions are most commonly issued by strangers, they are more likely to draw user attention and responses when they come from friends.

Measuring Price Desrimination on the Internet

In this project we are measuring the extent to which online purchasing sites vary the prices and the products they show to their customers. There are many ways in which these websites are able to influence the final purchase of users, and many factors based on which they can personalize the pool of products they offer. Our investigations include measurements on real users as well as simulations of browsing on some of the biggest e-commerce and travel sites.

Teaching

CS1800: Discrete Structures, Fall 2010

CS2800: Logic and Computation, Spring 2011