Date: May 20, 2025
Format: Online
Title: Five Beats of Intelligence: AI Meets Politics and Diplomacy
Topic: Social media and other online material on the web offers valuable insights about domestic politics and global diplomacy. Using AI technologies to extract structured information from text, images and networks data and analyzing them with domain expertise can offer valuable insights. In this talk, I will share two projects #Secim2023 and GlobalDiplomacyNet to demonstrate how different AI technologies along with computational social science approaches can be used in politics and global diplomacy.
Language: English
Duration: 1 Hour
Speaker: Dr. Onur Varol
Registration Deadline: May 19, 2025, 16:30, CET
About Speaker:
Dr. Onur Varol, is an Assistant Professor at the Sabanci University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences and Principal Investigator at the VIRAL Lab. His research focuses on developing techniques to analyze online behaviors to improve individual well-being and address societal problems using online data. He is awarded by The Turkish Science Academy to Young Scientist Awards (2022) and Research Incentive Award by METU Parlar Foundation (2022). He also received TUBITAK 2247-D National Leader Researcher Grant in 2022. Prior to joining Sabanci University, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University at the Center for Complex Network Research. He completed his PhD in Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington (USA). His thesis focuses on the analysis of manipulation and threats on social media and he was awarded the 2018 University Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award. He has developed a system called Botometer to detect social bots on Twitter and his team ranked top 3 worldwide at the 2015 DARPA Bot Detection Challenge. His research published in prestigious venues such as International Conference of Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Nature Communications, Nature Human Behavior,World Wide Web (WWW) conference, and Communications of the ACM.
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Acknowledgments
This event was supported by the EuroCC 2 and EuroCC4SEE projects, which received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreements No. 101101903 and No. 101191697, respectively. The JU receives support from the Digital Europe Programme and Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Norway, Türkiye, Republic of North Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Serbia.
