Dr. S. (Savvas) Zannettou
Dr. S. (Savvas) Zannettou
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Biography
Savvas is an Assistant Professor in the TPM faculty at TU Delft, an associated researcher with the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and a core member of the IDrama Lab. Before joining TU Delft, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics. He obtained his PhD from the Cyprus University of Technology in 2020.
Expertise
Savvas’ research focuses on applying machine learning and data-driven quantitative analysis to understand emerging phenomena on the Web, such as the spread of false information and hateful rhetoric. Also, he is interested in understanding algorithmic recommendations on the Web, their effect on end-users, and to what extend algorithms recommend extreme content. Finally, he is interested in analyzing content moderation systems to understand the effectiveness of moderation interventions on the Web.
Awards
- Best Senior Program Committee Member Award at AAAI ICWSM 2022
- Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at CSCW
- Best Reviewer Award at AAAI ICWSM 2021
- Best Paper Honorable Mention at AAAI ICWSM 2020
- Best Reviewer Award at AAAI ICWSM 2020
- Distinguished Paper Award at ACM IMC 2018
Expertise
Publications
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2023
Lambretta
Learning to Rank for Twitter Soft Moderation
Pujan Paudel / Jeremy Blackburn / Emiliano De Cristofaro / Savvas Zannettou / Gianluca Stringhini -
2023
On the Evolution of (Hateful) Memes by Means of Multimodal Contrastive Learning
Yiting Qu / Xinlei He / Shannon Pierson / Michael Backes / Yang Zhang / Savvas Zannettou
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2023
On the Globalization of the QAnon Conspiracy Theory Through Telegram
Mohamad Hoseini / Philipe Melo / Fabricio Benevenuto / Anja Feldmann / Savvas Zannettou
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2022
Effect of Social Networking on Real-World Events
Jeremy Blackburn / Savvas Zannettou
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2022
TrollMagnifier
Detecting State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Reddit
Mohammad Hammas Saeed / Shiza Ali / Jeremy Blackburn / Emiliano De Cristofaro / S. Zannettou / Gianluca Stringhini -
Courses 2023
Ancillary activities
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2023-04-01 - 2025-03-30
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