Pujan Paudel
I am a PhD candidate at BU SecLab working with Professor Gianluca Stringhini. My research focuses on building systems to improve the state of content moderation on social media. I borrow tools from Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Statistics, etc. to build tools that can help platforms flag misleading content in their services at scale. My other areas of interest are Internet Measurement, Technology and Policy, and Cybersecurity. In my past life, I used to work on web development, and mobile app development and actively participated in Hackathons.
Find the pdf version of my CV here. Last Updated: 02/18/2024
News
- 12/2024: 💼💼 I completed my 3 months long internship as a Machine Learning (ML) PhD Intern at Truveta.
- 11/2024: 👨💼👨💼 I presented our paper PixelMod as a finalist in the Applied Cyber Security Competition organized by NYU CSAW.
- 07/2024: 🎉🎉 I recieved a travel grant from Usenix Security to attend Usenix Security Symposium 2024. I will be presenting two of our recent papers.
- 08/2024: 💼💼 I completed my 3 months long internship as a Natural Language Processing (NLP) Research Intern at Merck Research Labs
- 07/2024: 📚📚 Our paper on state-sponsored influence campaigns on Twitter was accepted to RAID 2024.
- 05/2024: 📚📚 Our dataset paper on Scored social media platform was accepted to ICWSM 2024.
- 04/2024: 👨💼👨💼 I gave a talk on Annual Boston Security Usability Research Day on our ongoing work on Improving Soft Moderation Interventions on Social Media Platforms.
- 02/2024: 📚📚 Our paper on visual soft moderation (PixelMod) was accepted to Usenix 2024.
- 02/2024: 📚📚 Our paper on contextual soft moderation (CTD) was accepted to Usenix 2024.
- 12/2023: 🎉🎉 Passed my PhD Prospectus Exam on soft moderation interventions on social media platforms .
- 08/2023: 📚📚 Our paper on examining rhetroical shift in higher education discourse using topic models was accepted to PLoS One.
- 05/2023: 📚📚 Our paper on soft moderation using Learning To Rank (Lambretta) was accepted to IEEE Security and Privacy 2023.
- 01/2023: 📚📚 Our paper on Gettr social network was accepted to CySoc Workshop at 2022.
- 05/2021: 🎉🎉 Passed my PhD Qualifiers Exam.
- 08/2020: 🧑🏻🏫🧑🏻🏫 Started my PhD at Boston University.
- 05/2020: 🎓🎓 Graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi.
- 09/2019: 📚📚 Our paper on new wave of Twitter bots was accepted to ASONAM 2019.