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Short CV


Razan Masood has been a researcher in the Information Engineering department at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2018. She holds a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Duisburg-Essen and a Bachelor's degree in Informatics Engineering from Tishreen University. Her research focuses on classifying social media users through multiple machine-learning techniques that integrate textual content, behavioral patterns, and network connections while incorporating temporal modeling.

Research Interests


  • Machine Learning for Social Media Analysis
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Data Mining
  • AI-driven Risk Prediction

Courses Assisted


  • Databases
  • Information Retrieval
  • Data Mining
  • Internet Search Engines
  • Information Engineering
  • Basics of AI

Master’s Theses Supervision


  • Anorexia Risk Detection on the Internet
  • Risk Prediction of Mental Health for Social Media Network Users Using Large Language Models

Publications


  • Masood, R. "Adapting models for the case of early risk prediction on the internet." Advances in Information Retrieval, ECIR 2019.
  • Masood, R., et al. "Anorexia Topical Trends in Self-declared Reddit Users." CIRCLE 2020.
  • Masood, R., Ramiandrisoa, F., & Aker, A. "UDE at Erisk 2019: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet." CLEF 2019.
  • Masood, R. "The Fake News Challenge: Stance Detection using Traditional Machine Learning Approaches." In Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering, and Knowledge Management.