End of Year Roundup: Speaking Engagements

Faculty

 Dr. Ignacio Arana

• Carnegie Mellon University—Qatar (remote). October, 2020. I was invited to give the talk “Challenges to Study the Politics of the Arabian Gulf from a Comparative Perspective” to the students at CMU Qatar Campus.
• Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (remote). Quito, Ecuador. August, 2020. I was invited to present my coauthored paper “Judicial Reshuffles and Women Justices in Latin America” to the master’s students in Comparative Politics at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Quito, Ecuador. 

 Dr. Jonathan Brown

Following the insurrection on January 6th, I spoke at two conferences on the topic of Designing for Trust in the Post-Truth Era. I described the problem with platforms and fact-checking, and suggested a technical solution based on the theory of the Noosphere. Proposed by an obscure Jesuit priest Pierre Theilhard de Chardin 75 years ago, the Noosphere is the philosophical framework for planetary, Net-based consciousness. 

• Interaction21- Speaker- Feb 4,5 2021
• World IA Day (Pittsburgh)- Speaker- Feb 27, 2021       

Dr. Kathleen M. Carley         

• 6/2021 “Socially Influence Campaigns: The Coordination of Events Using Bots and Misinformation,” Plenary Panel, NSF Prpare workshop: Social, Behavioral, economic and governance aspects of pandemics – Virtual      
• 6/2021 “State of Deepfakes and Disinformation Online,” Deepfakes, Disinformation & Democracy (D3) Conference ,Opening Plenary Panel – Virtual
• 5/2021 “Disinformation and Manipulation during COVID-19 & the Election,” Keynote, SAMSI – Virtual
• 1/2021 “The Power of High Dimensional Networks,” Keynote, North American Social Network (NASN) – Virtual
• 1/2021 “Technology and Disinformation,” MIT CSAIL IAP 2021: Workshop on Democracy – Virtual
• 12/2020 “Social Cybersecurity,” Plenary, MORS Emerging Technology Forum (ETF) – Virtual   
• 11/2020 “Social Cybersecurity: Observations and Directions,” IDeaS Conference: Social Cybersecurity in Times of Crisis and Change, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA – Virtual
• 10/2020 “Social Influence and Disinformation in Cyberspace,” Open Science Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA – Virtual
• 10/2020 “Disinformation and Manipulation in Cyberspace,” Keynote – Greffenstette Symposium: Disinformation, Misinformation and Technology, Duquesne, Pittsburgh, PA – Virtual  
• 10/2020 “Social Cybersecurity and the Election,” Plenary, Disinformation One Month from the Election Virtual Round Table, CMU Computer Science
• 10/2020 “Disinfodemic,” Keynote – McGowan Symposium on Business Leadership and Ethics – Virtual
• 10/2020 “Disinformation Playground for Bots and Trolls,” Keynote – WPFC – Virtual            
• 10/2020 “Misinformation and disinformation in social media and the role bots play during the pandemic,” Invited Plenary – SPB-BRiMS – Virtual 
• 10/2020 “Social Cybersecurity,” Keynote – ISAT/DARPA Digital Innoculation at Scale – Virtual 
• 6/2020 “Social Cybersecurity and the Pandemic.” Keynote – ICWSM – Virtual

 Dr. Iain Cruickshank 

• Invited Presenter to a Military Operations Research Society, Data Science and AI Community of Interest Meeting, 30 SEP 2020. Presented on Cluster Ensembling
• Invited Presenter to South Big Data Hub's social cybersecurity working group meeting, 3 SEP 2020. Presented on Multi-view Clustering for Social Based Data
• Paper presentation at Social Network Analysis and Mining Conference (SNAM), 3 SEP 2020. Presented Multi-view clustering of external websites URLs in Twitter Data
• Co-chair of the first annual Artificial Intelligence for Fires Summit, 9-11 JUN 2020. Co-chaired a meeting to discuss how to apply and prioritize AI efforts to support long-range precision fires for the U.S. Army

 Dr. David Danks 

• “Operationalizing AI ethics” // 10th annual NSA Mission Compliance Conference // May 6, 2021
• “Responsible AI as product, not process” // U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC) Perspectives Lecture Series // Feb 18, 2021
• “Fixing the cultural biases in algorithms” // African American Heritage House lecture series (Chautauqua Institute) // July 22, 2020

 Dr. Daniel Oppenheimer 

• Contagious Academic Writing: Lessons From Viral Media, Urban Legends, and the Marketplace of Ideas. Invited Address at University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. December 2020
• A Primer on Behavioral Science for Effective Governance. Invited Address at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Mayor’s Association. Harrisburg PA 

STUDENTS

 Cori Faklaris

“Applying Social Psychology to Cybersecurity,” with Jason I. Hong, IDeaS Center Summer Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June 11, 2021, remote on MS Teams. Name of the event: IDeaS Center Summer Institute Role served at the event: Assistant to Jason I. Hong of HCII and co-presenter for his talk, “Applying Social Psychology to Cybersecurity” Date of the event: June 11, 2021

“Social Cybersecurity,” presentation and moderated Q&A (with Tom Magelinski) for Bytes of Good Live, organized by Hack4Impact, March 24, 2021, remote on YouTube. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjkNhTaWOwk. Name of the event: Social Cybersecurity in Times of Change and Crisis virtual conference. Role served at the event: Poster presenter (via video) for my work, “Examining the Influence of Smartphones on Information Judgment in Social Media.” Date of the event: Nov. 18-20, 2020

 Catherine King

Invited Talk at The College of William & Mary (10/14/2020) - 50-minute presentation: "Social Media Dynamics During the 2020 US Presidential Election" to the Applied Math group in the Mathematics department (mostly professors, but some students).

 Christine Lepird

• Lepird, Christine and Carley, Kathleen M. (2020). The Russian Strategy for Interference and Influence on Reddit: An Analysis of Infiltrating New Social Media Platforms. In Proceedings of the International Conference SBP-BRiMS 2020, Washington DC, October 2020, Springer. 
• King, Catherine and Lepird, Christine (2021). Designing a Training Game to Fight Misinformation on Social Media. In Proceedings of the International Conference SBP-BRiMS 2021, Washington DC, July 2021, Springer.