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Helping you understand what you read
ABOUT
The project aims at developing a news aggregation application that helps users “step out of their bubble” and achieve a healthy “news diet”.
RESEARCH
We make explicit media stance, bias, and propaganda, thus limiting the effect of fake news. We further offer different viewpoints and angles on controversial events and topics.
PARTNERS
We partner with MIT CSAIL.We further collaborate with Qatar University, Northwestern University, HBKU, Sofia University, Data Science Society, and A Data Pro.
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Our research was featured by 100 news outlets including:
Forbes, Boston Globe, Aljazeera, MIT Technology Review, Science Daily, Popular Science, Fast Company, The Register, WIRED, Engadget, among many others
Our Current Team
Dr. Firoj Alam
PI, Scientist, QCRI
Yifan Zhang
Product Owner, Senior Software Engineer, QCRI
Hamdy Mubarak
Principal Software Engineer, QCRI
Maram Hasanain
Postdoc Researcher, QCRI
Fatema Ahmad
Research Assistant, QCRI
Former Team
Dr. Preslav Nakov
PI, Senior Scientist QCRI
Dr. Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
Assistant Professor UNIBO
Dr. Giovanni Martino
Scientist QCRI
Dr. Salvatore Romeo
Scientist Amazon
Dr. Kareem Darwish
Principal Scientist QCRI
Dr. Jisun An
Scientist QCRI
Dr. Haewoon Kwak
Senior Scientist QCRI
Dr. Ahmed Abdellali
Senior Software Engineer QCRI
Israa Jaradat
Research Assistant
Dr. James Glass
Senior Research Scientist MIT-CSAIL
Dr. Mitra Mohtarami
Research Scientist MIT-CSAIL
Dr. Ramy Baly
Post-doc MIT-CSAIL
Seunghak Yu
Joint Post-doc QCRI/MIT-CSAIL
Former Advisory Board
Dr. Stephan Vogel
Internal Advisor, Research Director Arabic Language Technologies QCRI
Dr. Sanjay Chawla
Research Director Data Analytics, QCRI
Dr. Ingmar Weber
Research Director Social Computing, QCRI
Dr. Banu Akdenizli
Associate Professor, Northwestern University in Qatar
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