Detecting and classifying social media bots after disasters will reduce the prevalence of scams and improve disaster response.
Faculty Mentor: Huan Liu
Disaster Visualization and Tracking Using Social Media Data
Analyzing social media activity patterns is key to developing effective methods for more efficient disaster-relief efforts.
The Lifecycle of Botnets on Social Media
Understanding the life cycle of social media bots and botnets will help defend against them.
Personalized Browser History Anonymization
Although tools such as Tor, VPN (Virtual Private Network), and HTTPS protect the privacy of a user’s browsing, they all come at a significant cost in utility. This FURI project attempts to better handle this tradeoff between privacy and utility. Given a user’s browsing history, the goal is to increase the privacy protection of the
