Alex Levi
Project: Combating Misinformation On Twitter Using NLP and Graph Structures
Mentors: Nick Feamster, Department of Computer Science/Center for Data & Computing
Research Area Keywords: Machine Learning & AI // Internet of Things
Project Description: Alex Levi is a student at the University of Chicago pursuing a joint BA/MS program, majoring in the College in mathematics and beginning his first year in the Masters in Computational Social Science (MACSS) program. This summer, he worked with Prof. Nick Feamster on a project focused on building software that detects linkage structures of misinformation on Twitter. Using NLP semantics and network analysis, he built the groundwork for an algorithm that will be able to detect information divergence, both semantically and structurally. He hopes to continue developing this algorithm in the future.