talks

Selected talks and presentations.

  • Culturally Aware Conversational Agents for Health, Microsoft Research India, 2026

  • Mapping Gender Norms in Global Media – Using AI to Turn Evidence into Advocacy, Impact Guild, 2025

  • Entertaining Change, Next-Generation Media Partnerships for Social Impact and Gender Equality, World Bank Group, Nigeria, 2025

  • Using Social Media to Understand Mental Health of Individuals and Communities, Howard University, 2025

  • Computational Social Listening for Public Health, NORC at the University of Chicago, 2024

  • Studying Mental Health Using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, Chiba University, Japan, 2024

  • Promises & Perils of AI: Mitigating Bias, Exploring Opportunities and Achieving Fairness, Meijin-Samvad, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - Bengaluru, 2024

  • Bowling Alone: Frontiers in Loneliness Research, Population Aging Research Center at Penn, 2024

  • Racial Heterogeneity in Language Markers of Depression, TADA Journal Club, Emory University, 2024

  • Computational Social Listening for Public Health, Keynote, Amity University Confluence, 2024

  • Computational Social Listening for Public Health, Biomedical Data Science Seminar, Institute of Biomedical Informatics (IBI), 2023

  • Computational Social Listening for Public Health, Center for Safe, Explainable, and Trustworthy AI, 2023

  • Computational Social Listening for Public Health using Social Media, Microsoft Research India, Trustworthy AI Workshop, Bengaluru, 2023

  • Panel: Finding the missing pieces, Conference on Missingness in Action, Stanford University, 2022

  • Computational Social Listening During COVID-19 Using Social Media, United Nations Development Program, New York, 2022

  • Panel: India in the 21st Century, Perry World House, Philadelphia, 2022

  • User Generated Content: Opportunities for Health Care, Computer and Information Science Spring Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, 2020

  • Promise, challenges, and risks of digital data in mental health research and care, AMIA Annual Symposium, 2019 (Panel Chair)

  • User Generated Content: Opportunities for Health Care, Langone School of Medicine, New York University, 2019

  • Using Digital Data to Measure and Understand Mental Health, APA Technology, Mind and Society Conference, Washington DC, 2019 (Session Chair)

  • Using Social Media to Inform Healthcare, Informatics Day, Institute of Biomedical Informatics, 2019

  • Studying Cultural Differences using Language, Behavioral Insights from Text Conference, Wharton School, 2019 [Link]

  • Leveraging Social and Electronic Communications in Evaluation and Treatment, Technology in Psychiatry Summit, McLean/Harvard Med. School, 2018

  • Using Social Media to measure Psychological Health and Illness, APA Technology, Mind and Society Conference, Washington DC, 2018 (Session Chair)

  • Assessing ADHD from Tweets, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, 2018

  • Studying Personality through the Content of Posted and Liked Images on Twitter, ACM Web Science, Troy NY, 2017

  • Modelling Human Factors in Perceptual Multimedia Quality, ACM Multimedia, Brisbane, 2015