Maaz Amjad


Steve Hicks School of Social Work
The University of Texas at Austin
Texas, 78712, United States


About MySelf

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, of The University of Texas at Austin, United States.

I have obtained Ph.D in Computer Science from Instituto Politécnico Nacional, where I studied in Natural Language and Text Processing Laboratory in Center for Computing Research (Centro de Investigación en Computación).


My primary research interest lies in the Natural Language Processing for Social Good, Health Data Analytics, and Machine learning in Social Good and Public Health. My long-term professional goal is to conduct research in NLP for Social Good and Health Informatics. I am interested in addressing social challenging issues, such as fake news detection, use health data for analytics and visualization for decision making to improve public health with the help of machine learning modeling and natural language processing. In particular, I am interested in the development and validation of NLP algorithms for Social Good using medical data and non-medical data.

In my spare time, I love to get in touch with nature because I reckon distances and differences are the secret tonics of creativity. I always try to get ready for the new experience and understand the beauty of nature. I like to develop social attraction with people and know about their valuable information. I am a very open minded person with positive attitude and love to meet open minded people too.

Publications

All the publications can be seen by this link [Publications].

Certificates

All the certificates can be seen by this link [Certificates].

Competition Organizer

2022: Emotions and Threat Detection in Urdu - CICLing 2022 EmoThreat track @ FIRE 2022 [Competition Link].
2021: Fake News Detection in Urdu - CICLing 2021 UrduFake track @ FIRE 2021 [Competition Link].
2021: Abusive and Threatening Detection in Urdu - CICLing 2021 track @ FIRE 2021 co-hosted with ODS SoC 2021 [Competition Link].
2020: Fake News Detection in Urdu - CICLing 2020 UrduFake track @ FIRE 2020 [Competition Link].

Resources

2020: The Fake News Detection in Urdu - CICLing 2020 UrduFake track @ FIRE 2020[Fake News Dataset].
2021: The Fake News Detection in Urdu - CICLing 2021 UrduFake track @ FIRE 2021[Fake News Dataset].
2022: The Fake News Detection in Urdu - CICLing 2022 EmoThreat track @ FIRE 2022[Fake News Dataset].

Volunteering

Little Angels Pilot School


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