Publications

2025

  1. SLM-Mod: Small Language Models Surpass LLMs at Content Moderation  Preprint
    Xianyang Zhan+, Agam Goyal+, Yilun Chen, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, and Koustuv Saha (+ co-primary)
    Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Main Conference.
  2. AI on My Shoulder: Supporting Emotional Labor in Front-Office Roles with an LLM-based Empathetic Coworker  Preprint  
    Vedant Das Swain, Qiuyue “Joy” Zhong, Jash Rajesh Parekh, Yechan Jeon, Roy Zimmerman, Mary Czerwinski, Jina Suh, Varun Mishra, Koustuv Saha, and Javier Hernandez
    Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25), (Acceptance: 25.1%).
  3. Does Positive Reinforcement Work?: A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Effects of Positive Feedback on Reddit  Preprint
    Charlotte Lambert, Koustuv Saha, and Eshwar Chandrasekharan
    Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25), (Acceptance: 25.1%).
  4. AI vs. Humans for Online Support: Comparing the Language of Responses from LLMs and Online Communities of Alzheimer’s Disease  DL
    Koustuv Saha, Yoshee Jain, Chunyu Liu, Sidharth Kaliappan, and Ravi Karkar
    ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH), 2025.
  5. Online Communities as a Support System for Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care: Large-Scale Exploratory Study Preprint
    Sidharth Kaliappan, Chunyu Liu, Yoshee Jain, and Ravi Karkar, Koustuv Saha
    JMIR Aging (Forthcoming), (Impact Factor: 5.0), 2025.
  6. Mental Health Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on College Students: A Quasi-Experimental Study on Social Media  PDF
    Koustuv Saha, Bhaskar Kotakonda, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-25).
  7. Deceptive Sound Therapy on Online Platforms: Do Mental Wellbeing Tracks Conform to User Expectations?
    Arjun Arunasalam, Jason Tong, Habiba Farrukh, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Koustuv Saha, and Z. Berkay Celik
    Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-25).
  8. Emails by LLMs: A Comparison of Language in AI-Generated and Human-Written Emails  PDF
    Weijiang Li, Yinmeng Lai, Sandeep Soni, and Koustuv Saha
    Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci’25).
  9. A Survey of Passive Sensing in the Workplace Preprint
    Subigya Nepal, Gonzalo J. Martinez, Arvind Pillai, Koustuv Saha, Shayan Mirjafari, Vedant Das Swain, Xuhai Xu, Pino G. Audia, Munmun De Choudhury, Anind K. Dey, Aaron Striegel, and Andrew T. Campbell
    In 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII’25).

2024

  1. Observer Effect in Social Media Use  DL  PDF 
    Koustuv Saha, Pranshu Gupta, Gloria Mark, Emre Kiciman, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’24). Best Paper Honorable Mention 
  2. Bystanders of Online Moderation: Examining the Effects of Witnessing Post-Removal Explanations DL  PDF 
    Shagun Jhaver, Himanshu Rathi, and Koustuv Saha
    Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’24).
  3. LLM-Mod: Can Large Language Models Assist Content Moderation?  DL  PDF 
    Mahi Kolla+, Siddharth Salunkhe+, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, and Koustuv Saha (+ co-primary)
    Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts.
  4. Teacher, Trainer, Counsel, Spy: How Generative AI can Bridge or Widen the Gaps in Worker-Centric Digital Phenotyping of Wellbeing DL  PDF
    Vedant Das Swain and Koustuv Saha
    Proceedings of 2024 Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK).
  5. Toward Tailoring Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention Systems for Workplace Stress Reduction: Exploratory Analysis of Intervention Implementation  Link
    Jina Suh, Esther Howe, Robert Lewis, Javier Hernandez, Koustuv Saha, Tim Althoff, and Mary Czerwinski
    Journal of Medical Internet Research Mental Health (Impact Factor: 4.8), 2024.
  6. Rethinking Technology Innovation for Mental Health: Framework for Multi-Sectoral Collaboration Link 
    Jina Suh, Sachin Pendse, Robert Lewis, Esther Howe, Koustuv Saha, Ebele Okoli, Judith Amores, Gonzalo Ramos, Jenny Shen, Judith Borghouts, Ashish Sharma, Paola Pedrelli, Liz Friedman, Charmain Jackman, Yusra Benhalim, Desmond Ong, Sameer Segal, Tim Althoff, and Mary Czerwinski
    Nature Mental Health, 2024.
  7. Improving Work-Nonwork Balance with Data-Driven Implementation Intention with Mental Contrasting DL  PDF 
    Yasaman S. Sefidgar, Matthew Jörke, Jina Suh, Koustuv Saha, Shamsi T. Iqbal, Gonzalo Ramos, and Mary Czerwinski
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, PACM HCI (CSCW 2024).
  8. Expectation Conformance in Online Sound Therapy: Designing Tools for Users of Mental Wellbeing Applications  DL
    Arjun Arunasalam, Jason Tong, Habiba Farrukh, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Koustuv Saha, and Z. Berkay Celik
    Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2024).
  9. Investigating How Gilds Were Employed On Reddit  DL
    Charlotte Lambert, Yoshee Jain, Koustuv Saha, and Eshwar Chandrasekharan
    Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2024).
  10. The LGBTQ+ minority stress on social media (MiSSoM) dataset: A labeled dataset for natural language processing and machine learning   DL
    Cory J. Cascalheira, Santosh Chapagain, Ryan E. Flinn, Dannie Klooster, Danica Laprade, Yuxuan Zhao, Emily M. Lund, Alejandra Gonzalez, Kelsey Corro, Rikki Wheatley, Ana Gutierrez, Oziel G. Villanueva, Koustuv Saha, Munmun De Choudhury, Jillian R. Scheer, and Shah Muhammad Hamdi
    Proceedings of the 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2024.

2023

  1. Can Workers Meaningfully Consent to Workplace Wellbeing Technologies?  DL  Pre-print  PDF  Video 
    Shreya Chowdhary, Anna Kawakami, Mary L. Gray, Jina Suh, Alexandra Olteanu, and Koustuv Saha
    Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.
  2. Sensing Wellbeing in the Workplace, Why and For Whom? Envisioning Impacts with Organizational Stakeholders. DL  Pre-print   PDF 
    Anna Kawakami, Shreya Chowdhary, Shamsi T. Iqbal, Q. Vera Liao, Alexandra Olteanu, Jina Suh, and Koustuv Saha
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, PACM HCI (CSCW), 2023.
  3. Mental Health Coping Stories on Social Media: A Causal-Inference Study of Papageno Effect  DL  PDF  Video 
    Yunhao Yuan, Koustuv Saha, Barbara Keller, Erkki Isometsä, and Talayeh Aledavood
    Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (TheWebConf/WWW) 2023, (Acceptance: 19.2%).
  4. Focused Time Saves Nine: Evaluating Computer-Assisted Protected Time for Hybrid Information Work  DL  PDF  Video  Blog
    Vedant Das Swain, Javier Hernandez, Brian Houck, Koustuv Saha, Jina Suh, Ahad Chaudhry, Tenny Cho, Wendy Guo, Shamsi T. Iqbal, and Mary Czerwinski
    Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Acceptance: 28.39%).
  5. Focus Time for Wellbeing and Work Engagement of Information Workers  DL  PDF  Video  Blog
    Koustuv Saha and Shamsi T. Iqbal
    Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (Acceptance: 34%).
  6. Lessons Learned for Data-Driven Implementation Intentions with Mental Contrasting  DL  PDF  Video 
    Yasaman S. Sefidgar, Matthew Jörke, Jina Suh, Koustuv Saha, Shamsi T. Iqbal, Gonzalo Ramos, and Mary Czerwinski
    Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts.
  7. Focus Time: Effectiveness of Computer Assisted Protected Time for Wellbeing and Work Engagement of Information Workers  DL  PDF 
    Koustuv Saha and Shamsi T. Iqbal
    Proceedings of 2023 Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK).
  8. Charting the Sociotechnical Gap in Explainable AI: A Framework to Address the Gap in XAI  DL  Link
    Upol Ehsan, Koustuv Saha, Munmun De Choudhury, and Mark O. Riedl
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, PACM HCI (CSCW), 2023.
  9. Supporters First: Understanding Online Social Support on Mental Health from a Supporter Perspective  DL  PDF
    Meeyun Kim, Koustuv Saha, Munmun De Choudhury, and Daejin Choi
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, PACM HCI (CSCW), 2023.
  10. Predicting Opioid Use Outcomes in Minoritized Communities  DL
    Abhay Goyal, Nimay Parekh, Lam Yin Cheung, Koustuv Saha, Frederick L Altice, Robin O’hanlon, Roger Ho Chun Man, Chunki Fong, Christian Poellabauer, Honoria Guarino, Pedro Mateu Gelabert, and Navin Kumar
    Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics, 2023.
  11. Modeling gender dysphoria with social media for use in technology-delivered interventions: A machine learning and natural language processing validation study  Link
    Cory J. Cascalheira, Ryan E. Flinn, Yuxuan Zhao, Dannie Klooster, Danica Laparade, Shah M. Hamdi, Jillian R. Scheer, Alejandra Gonzalez, Emily M. Lund, Ivan N. Gomez, Koustuv Saha, and Munmun De Choudhury
    JMIR Formative Research, 2023.
  12. Partisan US News Media Representations of Syrian Refugees  DL
    Keyu Chen, Marzieh Babaeianjelodar, Yiwen Shi, Kamila Janmohamed, Rupak Sarkar, Ingmar Weber, Thomas Davidson, Munmun De Choudhury, Jonathan Huang, Shweta Yadav, Ashique R. Khudabukhsh, Preslav Ivanov Nakov, Chris T Bauch, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, Koustuv Saha, Kaveh Khoshnood, and Navin Kumar
    Proceedings of the 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2023.
  13. Towards Successful Deployment of Wellbeing Sensing Technologies: Identifying Misalignments across Contextual Boundaries  DL  PDF
    Jina Suh, Javier Hernandez, Koustuv Saha, Kathy Dixon, Mehrab Bin Morshed, Esther Howe, Anna Kawakami, and Mary Czerwinski
    Affective Computing for Mental Wellbeing (mWell), co-located with ACII 2023.
  14. Investigating Self-supervised Learning for Predicting Stress and Stressors from Passive Sensing  DL
    Harish Haresamudram, Jina Suh, Javier Hernandez, Jenna Butler, Ahad Chaudhry, Longqi Yang, Koustuv Saha, and Mary Czerwinski
    Affective Computing for Mental Wellbeing (mWell), co-located with ACII 2023.
  15. Categorizing Memes about Abortion  DL
    Yashna Nainani, Kaveh Khoshnood, Ashley Feng, Muhammad Siddique, Clara Broekaert, Allie Wong, Koustuv Saha, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Zach Schwitzky, Lam Yin Cheung, Frederick L. Altice and Navin Kumar
    2nd Workshop on Images in Online Political Communication, colocated with AAAI ICWSM 2023.
  16. Misogynistic Extremism: A Scoping Review  Link  
    Robin O’Hanlon, Frederick L Altice, Roy K Lee, Jack LaViolette, Gloria Mark, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, Koustuv Saha, Munmun De Choudhury, and Navin Kumar
    Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2023.
  17. Does Papageno Effect Occur on Social Media?  Link
    Yunhao Yuan, Koustuv Saha, Barbara Keller, Erkki Isometsä, and Talayeh Aledavood
    9th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2).

2022

  1. Social Media Discussions Predict Mental Health Consultations on College Campuses  Link 
    Koustuv Saha, Asra Yousuf, Ryan L Boyd, James W Pennebaker, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Nature Scientific Reports, 2022.
  2. Food, Mood, Context: Examining College Students’ Eating Context and Mental Well-Being  DL 
    Mehrab Bin Morshed, Samruddhi Shreeram Kulkarni, Koustuv Saha, Richard Li, Leah G. Roper, Lama Nachman, Hong Lu, Lucia Mirabella, Sanjeev Srivastava, Kaya de Barbaro, Munmun De Choudhury, Thomas Plötz, Gregory D. Abowd
    ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (ACM Health), 2022.
  3. Veteran Critical Theory as a Lens to Understand Veterans’ Needs and Support on Social Media  DL  PDF 
    Jiawei Zhou, Koustuv Saha, Irene ML Carron, Dong Whi Yoo, Catherine R Deeter, Munmun De Choudhury, and Rosa I Arriaga
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, PACM HCI (CSCW), 2022.
  4. Classifying Minority Stress Disclosure on Social Media with Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory  DL   PDF 
    Cory J Cascalheira, Shah Muhammad Hamdi, Jillian R Scheer, Koustuv Saha, Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2022.
  5. Categorizing Memes about the Ukraine Conflict  DL 
    Keyu Chen, Ashley Feng, Rohan Aanegola, Koustuv Saha, Allie Wong, Zach Schwitzky, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Robin O’Hanlon, Munmun De Choudhury, Frederick L Altice, Kaveh Khoshnood, and Navin Kumar
    Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks (CSoNet), 2022.
  6. COVID-19 Vaccine Perceptions in the Initial Phases of US Vaccine Roll-out: An Observational Study on Reddit  Link 
    Navin Kumar, Isabel Corpus, Meher Hans, Nikhil Harle, Nan Yang, Curtis McDonald, Shinpei Nakamura Sakai, Kamila Janmohamed, Keyu Chen, Frederick L. Altice, Weiming Tang, Jason L. Schwartz, S. Mo Jones-Jang, Koustuv Saha, Shahan Ali Memon, Chris T. Bauch, Munmun De Choudhury, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, Joseph D. Tucker, Abhay Goyal, Aman Tyagi, Kaveh Khoshnood, and Saad Omer
    BMC Public Health, 2022.

2021

  1. A Social Media Study on Demographic Differences in Perceived Job Satisfaction   DL   PDF  Video 
    Koustuv Saha, Asra Yousuf, Louis Hickman, Pranshu Gupta, Louis Tay, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, PACM HCI (CSCW), 2021.
  2. What Life Events are Disclosed on Social Media, How, When, and By Whom?   DL  PDF  Supplementary  Video 
    Koustuv Saha, Jordyn Seybolt, Stephen M Mattingly, Talayeh Aledavood, Chaitanya Konjeti, Gonzalo J Martinez, Ted Grover, Gloria Mark, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Acceptance: 26%).
  3. AdverTiming Matters: Examining User Ad Consumption for Effective Ad Allocations on Social Media   DL  PDF  Video 
    Koustuv Saha, Yozen Liu, Nicholas Vincent, Farhan Asif Chowdhury, Leonardo Neves, Neil Shah, and Maarten W Bos
    Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Acceptance: 26%).
  4. Person-Centered Predictions of Psychological Constructs with Social Media Contextualized by Multimodal Sensing   DL  PDF  Video 
    Koustuv Saha+, Ted Grover+, Stephen M Mattingly, Vedant Das Swain, Pranshu Gupta, Gonzalo J Martinez, Pablo Robles-Granda, Gloria Mark, Aaron Striegel, and Munmun De Choudhury (+ co-primary)
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT), UbiComp 2021.
  5. Understanding Side Effects of Antidepressants: Large-scale Longitudinal Study on Social Media Data  Link   PDF   Supplementary  
    Koustuv Saha, John Torous, Emre Kiciman, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Journal of Medical Internet Research Mental Health, 2021.
  6. Towards Mutual Theory of Mind in Human-AI Interaction: How Language Reflects What Students Perceive About a Virtual Teaching Assistant  DL  PDF  Video 
    Qiaosi Wang, Koustuv Saha, Eric Gregori, David A Joyner, and Ashok K Goel
    Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
  7. Impacts of School Drills on the Psychological Well-being of American K-12 School Communities: A Social Media Study  Link  NBC  11Alive  Hill CWT  Vox
    Mai ElSherief, Koustuv Saha, Pranshu Gupta, Shrija Mishra, Jordyn Seybolt, Jiajia Xie, Megan O’Toole, Sarah Burd-Sharps, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2021.
  8. “The Smartest Decision for My Future”: Social Media Reveals Challenges and Stress During Post-College Life Transition  DL  PDF  Video 
    Crystal Gong, Koustuv Saha, and Stevie Chancellor
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, PACM HCI (CSCW), 2021.
  9. CEAM: The Effectiveness of Cyclic and Ephemeral Attention Models of User Behavior on Social Platforms   DL  PDF  Video 
    Farhan Asif Chowdhury, Yozen Liu, Koustuv Saha, Nicholas Vincent, Leonardo Neves, Neil Shah, and Maarten W Bos
    Proceedings of the 15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2021.
  10. Predicting Participant Compliance with Fitness Tracker Wearing and EMA Protocols in Information Workers: An Observational Study Link  
    Gonzalo J Martinez, Stephen M Mattingly, Pablo Robles-Granda, Koustuv Saha, Anusha Sirigiri, Jessica Young, Nitesh V Chawla, Munmun De Choudhury, Sidney K D’Mello, Gloria Mark, and Aaron Striegel
    Journal of Medical Internet Research mHealth and uHealth (JMU), 2021.
  11. Predicting Job Performance Using Mobile Sensing   DL  PDF 
    Shayan Mirjafari, Subigya Nepal, Hessam Bagherinezhad, Gonzalo J Martinez, Koustuv Saha, Mikio Obuchi, Pino Audia, Nitesh V Chawla, Anind K Dey, Aaron Striegel, Andrew T Campbell
    IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2021.
  12. Jointly Predicting Job Performance, Personality, Cognitive Ability, Affect, and Well-Being   DL  PDF   
    Pablo Robles-Granda, Suwen Lin, Xian Wu, Gonzalo J Martinez, Stephen M Mattingly, Edward Moskal, Aaron Striegel, Nitesh V Chawla, S D’Mello, J Gregg, Kari Nies, Gloria Mark, Ted Grover, Andrew T Campbell, Shayan Mirjafari, Koustuv Saha, Munmun De Choudhury, and Anind K Dey
    IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 2021.
  13. Examining Factors Associated with Twitter Account Suspension Following the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election   DL  PDF
    Farhan Asif Chowdhury, Dheeman Saha, Md Rashidul Hasan, Koustuv Saha, and Abullah Mueen
    Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2021.
  14. Assessing the Mental Health of College Students by Leveraging Social Media Data   DL 
    Koustuv Saha and Munmun De Choudhury
    XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, 2021.

2020

  1. Psychosocial Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Large-scale Quasi-Experimental Study on Social Media   Link  PDF  NYT  CBC 
    Koustuv Saha, John Torous, Eric D Caine, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), 2020
  2. Causal Factors of Effective Psychosocial Outcomes in Online Mental Health Communities    DL  PDF  Video 
    Koustuv Saha and Amit Sharma
    Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2020.
  3. Modeling Organizational Culture with Workplace Experiences Shared on Glassdoor   DL  PDF  Press  Video 
    Vedant Das Swain+, Koustuv Saha+, Manikanta D Reddy, Hemang Rajvanshy, Gregory D Abowd, and Munmun De Choudhury (+ co-primary)
    Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
  4. Social Media and Ubiquitous Technologies for Remote Worker Wellbeing and Productivity in a Post-Pandemic World   DL  PDF 
    Vedant Das Swain+, Koustuv Saha+, Gregory D Abowd, and Munmun De Choudhury (+ co-primary)
    Proceedings of 2020 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI), Highlighted Talk at Microsoft Research NFoW 
  5. Measuring Self-Esteem with Passive Sensing   DL  PDF  Video  Slides 
    Mehrab Bin Morshed+, Koustuv Saha+, Munmun De Choudhury, Gregory D Abowd, and Thomas Plötz (+ co-primary)
    Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2020.
  6. A Real-Time Eating Detection System for Capturing Eating Moments and Triggering Ecological Momentary Assessments to Obtain Further Context: System Development and Validation Study Link 
    Mehrab Bin Morshed, Samriddhi Kuklkarni, Richard Li, Koustuv Saha, Leah Galante Roper, Lama Nachman, Hong Lu, Lucia Mirabella, Sanjeev Srivastava, Munmun De Choudhury, Kaya de Barbaro, Thomas Plötz, Gregory D Abowd
    Journal of Medical Internet Research mHealth and uHealth (JMU), 2020
  7. Understanding Moderation in Online Mental Health Communities   DL  PDF  Video 
    Koustuv Saha, Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala, Sarmistha Dutta, Eva Sharma, and Munmun De Choudhury
    In 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), Springer LNCS, 2020.
  8. Improved Sleep Detection Through The Fusion of Phone Agent and Wearable Data Streams   DL  PDF 
    Gonzalo J Martinez+, Stephen M Mattingly+, Jessica Young, Louis Faust, Anind K Dey, Andrew T Campbell, Munmun De Choudhury, Shayan Mirjafari, Subigya Nepal, Pablo Robles-Granda, Koustuv Saha, Aaron Striegel (+ co-primary)
    In Workshop on Sensing Systems and Applications Using Wrist Worn Smart Devices (WristSense), co-located with IEEE PerCom, 2020.  Best Paper Honorable Mention 

2019

  1. LibRA: On LinkedIn based Role Ambiguity and Its Relationship with Wellbeing and Job Performance   DL  PDF 
    Koustuv Saha, Manikanta D Reddy, Stephen M Mattingly, Edward Moskal, Anusha Sirigiri, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, PACM HCI (CSCW), 2019 (Acceptance: 31%).
  2. The Language of LGBTQ+ Minority Stress Experiences on Social Media  DL  PDF  
    Koustuv Saha, Sang C Kim, Manikanta D Reddy, Albert J Carter, Eva Sharma, Oliver L Haimson, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, PACM HCI (CSCW), 2019 (Acceptance: 31%).
  3. A Social Media Study on the Effects of Psychiatric Medication Use  DL  PDF  
    Koustuv Saha, Benjamin Sugar, John Torous, Bruno Abrahao, Emre Kiciman, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the 13th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2019 (Acceptance: 18%). Outstanding Study Design Paper 
  4. Imputing Missing Social Media Data Stream in Multisensor Studies of Human Behavior   DL  PDF
    Koustuv Saha, Manikanta D Reddy, Vedant Das Swain, Julie M Gregg, Ted Grover, Suwen Lin, Gonzalo J Martinez, Stephen M Mattingly, Shayan Mirjafari, Raghu Mulukutla, Kari Nies, Pablo Robles-Granda, Anusha Sirigiri, Dong Whi Yoo, Pino Audia, Andrew T Campbell, Nitesh V Chawla, Sidney K D’Mello, Anind K Dey, K Jiang, Qiang Liu, Gloria Mark, Edward Moskal, Aaron Striegel, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2019.
  5. Prevalence and Psychological Effects of Hateful Speech in Online College Communities  DL  PDF  
    Koustuv Saha, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci), 2019 (Acceptance: 31.5%)
  6. A Multisensor Person-Centered Approach to Understand the Role of Daily Activities in Job Performance with Organizational Personas  DL  PDF 
    Vedant Das Swain, Koustuv Saha, Hemang Rajvanshy, Anusha Sirigiri, Julie M Gregg, Suwen Lin, Gonzalo J Martinez, Stephen M Mattingly, Shayan Mirjafari, Raghu Mulukutla, Subigya Nepal, Kari Nies, Manikanta D Reddy, Pablo Robles-Granda, Andrew T Campbell, Nitesh V Chawla, Sidney K D’Mello, Anind K Dey, K Jiang, Q Liu, Gloria Mark, Edward Moskal, Aaron Striegel, L Tay, Gregory D Abowd, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT), 2019.
  7. Prediction of Mood Instability with Passive Sensing   DL  PDF 
    Mehrab Bin Morshed, Koustuv Saha, Richard Li, Sidney K D’Mello, Munmun De Choudhury, Gregory D Abowd, and T Plötz
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT), 2019.
  8. A Computational Study of Mental Health Awareness Campaigns on Social Media  Link  PDF 
    Koustuv Saha+, John Torous+, Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala, Conor Rizuto, Amanda Stafford, and Munmun De Choudhury (+ co-primary)
    Translational Behavioral Medicine, (Impact Factor: 2.5), 2019.
  9. JobLex: A Lexico-Semantic Knowledgebase of Occupational Information Descriptors  DL  PDF  Lexicon 
    Koustuv Saha, Manikanta D Reddy, and Munmun De Choudhury
    11th International Conference on Social Informatics, 2019.
  10. Social Media as a Passive Sensor in Longitudinal Studies of Human Behavior and Wellbeing  DL  PDF  Slides 
    Koustuv Saha, AE Bayraktaraglu, Andrew T Campbell, Nitesh V Chawla, Munmun De Choudhury, Sidney K D’Mello, Anind K Dey, Ge Gao, Julie M Gregg, Krithika Jagannath, Gloria Mark, Gonzalo J Martinez, Stephen M Mattingly, Edward Moskal, Anusha Sirigiri, Aaron Striegel, and Dong Whi Yoo
    Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, 2019.
  11. Differentiating Higher and Lower Job Performers in the Workplace using Mobile Sensing   DL  PDF 
    Shayan Mirjafari, K Masaba, Ted Grover, W Wang, Pino Audia, Andrew T Campbell, Nitesh V Chawla, Vedant Das Swain, Munmun De Choudhury, Anind K Dey, Sidney K D’Mello, G Gao, Julie M Gregg, K Jagannath, K Jiang, Suwen Lin, Q Liu, Gloria Mark, Gonzalo J Martinez, Stephen M Mattingly, Edward Moskal, Raghu Mulukutla, Subigya Nepal, Kari Nies, Manikanta D Reddy, Pablo Robles-Granda, Koustuv Saha, Anusha Sirigiri, and Aaron Striegel
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT), UbiComp 2019.
  12. The Tesserae Project: Large-Scale, Longitudinal, In Situ, Multimodal Sensing of Information Workers  DL  PDF 
    Stephen M Mattingly, Julie M Gregg, Pino Audia, AE Bayraktaraglu, Andrew T Campbell, Nitesh V Chawla, Vedant Das Swain, Munmun De Choudhury, Sidney K D’Mello, Anind K Dey, Ge Gao, K Jagannath, Kaifeng Jiang, Suwen Lin, Qiang Liu, Gloria Mark, Gonzalo J Martinez, K Masaba, Shayan Mirjafari, Edward Moskal, Raghu Mulukutla, Kari Nies, Manikanta D Reddy, Pablo Robles-Granda, Koustuv Saha, Anusha Sirigiri, and Aaron Striegel
    Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, 2019.
  13. Automated Tracking of Components of Job Satisfaction via Text Mining of Twitter Data  PDF 
    Louis Hickman, Koustuv Saha, Munmun De Choudhury, and Louis Tay
    ML Symposium, colocated with 34th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference (SIOP), 2019.
  14. On Microtargeting Socially Divisive Ads: A Case Study of Russia-Linked Ad Campaigns on Facebook   DL  PDF  
    Filipe N Ribeiro+, Koustuv Saha+, Mahmoudreza Babaei, Lucas Henrique, Johnnatan Messias, Fabricio Benevenuto, Oana Goga, Krishna P Gummadi, and Elissa M Redmiles (+ co-primary)
    Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*), 2019.

2018

  1. A Social Media Based Examination of the Effects of Counseling Recommendations After Student Deaths on College Campuses   DL  PDF  
    Koustuv Saha, Ingmar Weber, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2018.
  2. Modeling Stress with Social Media Around Incidents of Gun Violence on College Campuses  DL  PDF  Blog  Press 
    Koustuv Saha and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, PACM HCI (CSCW), CSCW 2018.

2017

  1. Inferring Mood Instability on Social Media by Leveraging Ecological Momentary Assessments   DL  PDF  
    Koustuv Saha, Larry Chan, Kaya de Barbaro, Gregory D Abowd, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT), UbiComp 2017.
  2. Characterizing Awareness of Schizophrenia Among Facebook Users by Leveraging Facebook Advertisement Estimates Link
    Koustuv Saha, Ingmar Weber, ML Birnbaum, and Munmun De Choudhury
    Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), (Impact Factor: 5.1), 2017, Mental Health Symposium at CHI 2017.
  3. Analyzing Ideological Discourse on Social Media: A Case Study on the Abortion Discourse  DL PDF 
    Eva Sharma+, Koustuv Saha+, Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala+, Sucheta Ghoshal+, and Munmun De Choudhury (+ co-primary)
    Proceedings of the International Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas, 2017.

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