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        <h1 class="h3 mb-0">Amira Ghenai</h1>
        <p class="mb-0 text-muted small">Assistant Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management</p>
        <p class="mb-0 text-muted small">Toronto Metropolitan University</p>
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        Dr. Amira Ghenai is an Assistant Professor at the
        <a href="https://www.ryerson.ca/tedrogersschool/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ted Rogers School of
          Information Technology Management</a> at
        <a href="https://www.ryerson.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Toronto Metropolitan University</a> and an
        adjunct assistant professor at the
        <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">David R. Cheriton School of Computer
          Science</a> at the
        <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University of Waterloo</a>. Prior to this, she
        was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the
        <a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/sis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">School of Information Studies</a> and a
        member of the
        <a href="http://act.mcgill.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Accessible Computing Technologies Research Group (ACT
          Lab)</a> at
        <a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">McGill University</a>.
        She completed her PhD of Computer Science at the
        <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science</a>,
        <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University of Waterloo</a>. She also received a Masters
        of Computing Sciences in Software Engineering from the
        <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University of Imperial College London</a>.
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      Dr. Ghenai’s research interests include <strong>Social Media Analysis</strong>, <strong>Data Science and Analytics</strong>,
      <strong>Fairness in Artificial Intelligence</strong>, <strong>Accessibility</strong>, <strong>Inclusive Design</strong>, and
      <strong>Human-Computer Interaction</strong>. Her work emphasizes understanding misinformation spread, especially related to health,
      and improving accessibility for older adults and neurodiverse populations.

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      She leads a funded research program on misinformation and bias, supervises graduate students on topics such as hate speech propagation,
      online misinformation, and neurodiversity support tools.
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	 <i>2026.02.06:</i> Our paper titled <em>"Music Listening, Mental Health, and Stress: A Computational Framework for Personalized Analysis and Recommendation"</em> has been accepted at the ACM Transactions on Information Systems.
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    <i>2025.08.27:</i> Our paper titled <em>"AGECovP: identifying ageism and analyzing COVID-19 discourse on older adults in YouTube"</em> has been accepted at EPJ Data Science.
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      <i>2025.04.12:</i> Our paper titled <em>"The Impact of Listening to Music on Stress Level for Anxiety, Depression and PTSD: Mixed-Effect Models and Propensity Score Analysis"</em> has been accepted at IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.
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      <i>2025.04.02:</i> Our paper titled <em>"Twitter-MusicPD: Melody of Minds - Navigating User-Level Data on Multiple Mental Health Disorders and Music Preferences"</em> has been accepted at EPJ Data Science.
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      <i>2025.03.31:</i> Career Boost Student Zil Pavdighada was Awarded Career Boost Excellence & Boldness Award.
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      <i>2025.01.28:</i> Our paper titled <em>"Exploring Hate Speech Dynamics: The Emotional, Linguistic, and Thematic Impact on Social Media Users"</em> has been accepted at Information Processing and Management.
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      <i>2024.01.18:</i> Our paper titled <em>"User-centric Modeling of Online Hate through the Lens of Psycholinguistic Patterns and Behaviors in Social Media"</em> has been accepted at IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.
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      <i>2023.09.12:</i> Our paper titled <em>"How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread on Twitter"</em> has been accepted at The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
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      <i>2023.08.15:</i> Our paper titled <em>"Guidelines for Designing Social Networking Sites for Older Adults: A Systematic Review with Thematic Synthesis"</em> has been accepted at ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS).
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      <i>2022.04.11:</i> Secured Discovery Grant from NSERC.
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      <i>2021.06.01:</i> Served as Accessibility Chair for the 15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).
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      <i>2021.02.24:</i> Our paper titled <em>"E-Health for Older Adults: Navigating Misinformation"</em> has been accepted to be published in the
      <a href="http://www.ict4ageingwell.org/Home.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">7th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health</a> (ICT4AWE).
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      <i>2021.01.04:</i> Started a sessional teaching position for the "Introduction to Computer Programming" course at the department of
      <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/management-sciences/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Management Sciences</a>,
      <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/future-students/discover/engineering" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Faculty of Engineering</a>, University of Waterloo.
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      <i>2020:</i> Our paper titled <em>"Addressing Misinformation in Online Social Networks: Diverse Platforms and the Potential of Multiagent Trust Modeling"</em> has been accepted to Information Journal - Special Issue: Tackling Misinformation Online.
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      <i>2020.12.29:</i> Served as the <b>Accessibility Chair</b> for the 15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
      (<a href="https://www.icwsm.org/2021/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ICWSM 2021</a>).
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      <i>2020.11.20:</i> Presented a guest lecture titled "Think aloud method for system usability analysis" in the GLIS 626 - Usability Analysis & Assessment course at McGill School of Information Studies. Lecture available
      <a href="https://youtu.be/KKefSIuewhE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.
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      <i>2020.11.12:</i> Our paper titled <em>"Addressing Misinformation in Online Social Networks: Diverse Platforms and the Potential of Multiagent Trust Modeling"</em> has been accepted to be published in the
      <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Information</a> journal - Special Issue: Tackling Misinformation Online.
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      <i>2020.08.13:</i> Presented a talk during the ACM SIGIR CHIIR Conference about "A Think-Aloud Study about Medical Misinformation in Search Results". Video available
      <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf949ZZ-GeE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.
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      <i>2020.08.10:</i> Received the prestigious <b>AGE-WELL Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Award in Technology and Aging</b> (Acceptance rate: <span style="color:red;font-weight:bold;">15%</span>).
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      <i>2019.12.15:</i> Our paper titled <em>"A Think-Aloud Study about Medical Misinformation in Search Results"</em> has been accepted to be presented at the
      <a href="https://sigir.org/chiir2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ACM SIGIR CHIIR Conference</a>, Vancouver, Canada.
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      <i>2019.11.01:</i> Successfully defended PhD thesis titled <a href="https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/15268" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">"Health Misinformation in Search and Social Media"</a>.
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      <i>2018.08.09:</i> Our paper titled <em>"Fake Cures: User-centric Modeling of Health Misinformation in Social Media"</em> has been accepted to be presented in the
      <a href="https://cscw.acm.org/2018/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ACM CSCW'18</a> conference, New York City.
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      <i>2018.04.07:</i> Our research about health misinformation in search engines was featured in <b>CBC NEWS</b>. Article available
      <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/second-opinion-online-medical180407-1.4608410" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.
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      <i>2018.04.05:</i> Interviewed by <b>Global News - Edmonton</b> about health misinformation research. Watch broadcast
      <a href="https://globalnews.ca/video/rd/1203934275527/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.
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