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Introduction

My name is Kumari Neha. I am a Ph.D. Research Scholar at IIIT Delhi, India. I work in the field of Computational Social Science. My research topic is Understanding Protest Participation on Social Media. I have worked on understanding people's participation in Indian Protests, including Citizenship Amendment Act, Farmer's Protest, and Shushan Singh Rajput's death row. This page is a summary of my professional endeavors.

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#CitizenshipAmendmentAct

Study of pro-CAA and anti-CAA opinions on Twitter.

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#ShushantSinghRajput

Study of #SSR counterpublic campaign

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Protest Narratives

Detection of the narratives present in a protest

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#MainBhiChowkidar

Study of #MainBhiChowkidar campaign in Lok Sabha Elections 2019

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ImageEducation Qualification

Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, IIIT Delhi, Since 2018, 8.0 CGPA


M.Tech, IIIT Bhubaneshwar, Computer Science, 2015 - 2017, 7.9 CGPA


B.Tech, Nagpur University, Information Technology, 2008-2012, 67%


Higher Secondary School, Delhi Public School Dhanbad, Science, 2007, 82%


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Foundations to Computer Security, Fall 2020


Privacy and Security in OSM, Winter 2020


Designing Human Centred Systems, Fall 2019


PSOSM NPTEL, 2020 Centificate


DHSC NPTEL, 2019 Centificate


Recent Publications

CamPros at CASE 2022 Task 1: Transformer-based Multilingual Protest News Detection

In the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE @ EMNLP 2022)

The Pursuit of Being Heard: An Unsupervised Approach to Narrative Detection in Online Protest

Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining.

A Tale of Two Sides: Study of Protesters and Counter-protesters on# CitizenshipAmendmentAct Campaign on Twitter

In 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022 (WebSci '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 279–289. https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3531584

Truth and travesty intertwined: a case study of# SSR counterpublic campaign

Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining.