Press, Blogs, and Abstracts
2025
2024
2023
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Dec. 2023 Featured in "ChatGPT and its AI chatbot cousins rules 2023: 4 essential reads that puncture the hype"
The Conversation
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Nov. 2023 Interview on GenAI
Cover story, Economy Chosun
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Oct. 2023 Interview on human trafficking and DIG
The Circuit News
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Oct. 2023 Interview on Artificial General Intelligence and AI for Social Good
"The ONE'S Changing the WORLD" 1st Future Tech Meets Sustainability Podcast
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Oct. 2023 On using Fodor's theory of modularity for situating large language models within a larger artificial general intelligence architecture
Abstract accepted for oral presentation, 4th International Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience
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Sep. 2023 Towards a Domain-Agnostic Knowledge Graph-as-a-Service Infrastructure for Active Cyber Defense with Intelligent Agents
Poster at the IEEE 52nd Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop
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Aug. 2023 Podcast/radio interview on Artificial Intelligence
Fun Kids
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Aug. 2023 A Knowledge Graph-Based Search Engine for Robustly Finding Doctors and Locations in the Healthcare Domain
Accepted poster and extended abstract, KDD Southern California Data Science Day, Long Beach
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Jul. 2023 From in-crowds to power couples, network science uncovers the hidden structure of community dynamics
Route Fifty
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May 2023 Putting the Rational Thinking Skills of Language Models to the Test
USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institute Research News
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May 2023 Are You More Vaccine Hesitant Than A 57-Year-Old?
USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institute Research News
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May 2023 INTERVIEW: Unleashing the Potential of AI
Folksalert podcast episode
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May 2023 Designing Artificial Intelligence for the Long Tail
Accepted abstract in the Workshop on AI and Analytics for Social Good, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
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Apr. 2023 Don't bet with ChatGPT – study shows language AIs often make irrational decisions
The Conversation
Republished in Gizmodo, NextGov, Lifehacker (Australia), Wyborcza (Poland), MyBroadBand (South Africa)
2022
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Oct. 2022 Quoted in What will 2072 look like? Recorded dreams and AI friends!
Julia Cohen
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Sep. 2022 AI study finds that males are represented four times more than females in literature
The Guardian
Republished in The Print, Free Press Journal, National Herald, Daily Mail, Paneta, BBC, SBS News (Korea), World Economic Forum and Press Trust of India
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Sep. 2022 Male-female character ratio in books 4:1, says study
The Print, National Herald, Free Press Journal, Press Trust of India
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Jul. 2022 Evaluating Language Representation Models on Approximately Rational Decision Making Problems
Accepted abstract and presentation in CogSci2022
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Jun. 2022 Live interview on AI and Bias
Appearance on KABC (ABC7 Los Angeles) live web streaming
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Jun. 2022 MLOps for Environmental Disaster Relief
Podcast hosted by Petuum
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Jun. 2022 Knowledge Graphs in Media and E-Commerce
INFORMS/CORS, held in Vancouver, Canada
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May 2022 Can we really teach AI common sense?
Interview on INFORMS Resoundingly Human Podcast
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May 2022 Where Does Vaccine Hesitancy Exist? USC AI Researchers Can Predict on the Zip Code-Level, in Real-Time
Article on USC Viterbi News
Featured in ACM Tech News weekly newsletter sent on May 20, 2022
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Apr. 2022 AI study finds that males are represented four times more than females in literature
Article on USC Viterbi News
Other press: The Guardian, Daily Mail, Planeta, BBC, SBS News (Korea), World Economic Forum
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Apr. 2022 Analytics software unlocks the benefits of IoT data collection
Contributed Article on TechTarget
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Mar. 2022 Community-Specific Overview of Knowledge Graph Research
Scholarly Community Encyclopedia
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Mar. 2022 Productivity Imposterism
Medium blog post
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Mar. 2022Stop fighting it. Reality television is all set to become the new high art
L.A. Mentary (The Greater Los Angeles Mensa Commentary), Volume LXI No. 3
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Feb. 2022 Portal exclusive: A blueprint for teaching common sense to machines
Education Times
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Jan. 2022 'Information Is Powerful, But Only If We Can Organize It Right' — New AI Potential Boon to Businesses
USC Viterbi News
Featured in ACM Tech News weekly newsletter sent on Jan. 24, 2022; USC Viterbi Communications newsletter sent on Feb. 2, 2022
2021
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Nov. 2021 IoT drives sustainable development and the bottom line
Invited feature in IoT Agenda, TechTarget
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Nov. 2021 Matching tweets to ZIP codes can spotlight hot spots of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
The Conversation
Republished in 20+ press outlets
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Nov. 2021 Graph Representation Learning: From Simple to Higher-order Structures
Invited blog post, Open Data Science Conference (ODSC)
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Oct. 2021 A Global Study of the Impacts of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion on Human Flourishing and Wellbeing
Included in Grand Challenges in Human Flourishing, Templeton World Charity Foundation public database
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Oct. 2021 Quoted in "AI: Dealing with Advanced Intelligence that is Unpredictable and Inscrutable"
Article by Dick Weisinger
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Sep. 2021 AI and Common Sense
Learning More Podcast
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Aug. 2021 An AI expert explains why it's hard to give computers something you take for granted: Common sense
Big Think
Republished in The Conversation, TechXPlore, Code Project Insider Daily Newsletter, HowStuffWorks, Britannica's Forum, The Next Web
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Jul. 2021 The world uses one emoji more than all others. Here's why
Popular Science
Republished in Global News Canada, CNN Indonesia, IT-daily.net, Diario De Cuyo (Argentina), Scientias.nl, phys.org, PresseText, then24.com, Market Research Telecast, FTD (Germany), Forosocuellamos (Spain), exame.com, Upgrade Magazine, Psychomedia, Samachar Central (Canada), NewsBeezer, IFL Science, studyfinds.org, UniVistaTV
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Jul. 2021 New York City or Los Angeles? Where you live says a lot about what and when you tweet
The Conversation
Re-posted on Medium as 'Computational social science has arrived'
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Jun. 2021 Can AI Stop the Erosion of 7,000 Human Languages?
Dataethics4all.org
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May 2021 How Monopoly is helping create the AI of the future
World Economic Forum
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Apr. 2021 Embrace the unexpected: To Teach AI how to handle new situations, change the rules of the game
The Conversation Magazine
Republished in 20+ press outlets
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Mar. 2021 Social Networks
Podcast on Data Skeptic
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Mar. 2021 Mayank Kejriwal recognized for public engagement work
Article on USC Viterbi News
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Mar. 2021 Detecting situational needs from digital messaging in real-time
Invited discussion article (no. FG-AI4NDM-I-012), Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management, International Telecommunication Union
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Mar. 2021 On Wisdom, Wealth and…Berkshire Hathaway
Medium Post
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Feb. 2021 The Top 5 graph database advantages for enterprises
News Article in SearchDataManagement
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Feb. 2021 Artificial Intelligence needs to be more context-aware
Medium Post
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Apr. 2021 How Monopoly is helping create the AI of the future
World Economic Forum
Republished in The Conversation newsletter, reposted in 20+ press outlets
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