About Me


I'm a PhD student with the Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. I'm advised by Dr. Scott McCrickard. I work on statistical learning for trust-aware group recommendation (deep multi-task learning, Bayesian ensemble models), and bias and trust issues in recommendation UX (power and editorial authority imbalance, fairness preservation, filter bubbles, distributive justice). My interests are motivated by real-world problems in education, sustainability and behavioral finance.

Email me at taha@vt.edu.

Research Interests

  • Recommender Systems
  • Learning Analytics
  • Social Computing and Web Science

News

01.2022           Reviewing for ACM ITiCSE 2022 and Education and Information Technologies (Springer).
08.2021           Reviewing for ACM SIGCSE 2022, and SV for RecSys 2021.
06.2021           At UMAP 2021 this summer, I'll talk about how editorial authority is critical to trust transactions in recommender systems. (paper)
06.2021           I'll teach CS1064, "Introduction to Programming using Python", this summer.
03.2021           Full paper accepted at the 29th ACM UMAP 2021.
01.2021           Invited to serve on the PC of ITiCSE 2021.
08.2020           Invited to serve on the PC of SIGCSE 2021.
06.2020           At ITiCSE 2020, I'll talk about 'depth-of-use', a framework for large-scale context mining on online learning platforms. (paper)
03.2020           Full paper accepted at the 26th ACM ITiCSE 2020.
08.2019           Invited to serve on the PC of SIGCSE 2020.
08.2019           At ASONAM 2019, I'll talk about ranking biases on academic forums, and their common interpretations and cures. (paper)
06.2019           At Web Science 2019, I'll talk about outcome-bias measurement on academic social forums (HWB'19).
06.2019           Poster paper accepted at the 11th IEEE/ACM ASONAM 2019.
05.2019           At WWW 2019, I'll talk about a trust-aware UX framework for social news recommendation (FATES'19). (paper)

Mailing Address

Notification Systems Lab
Department of Computer Science
KnowledgeWorks II, Kraft Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24060

Email

taha@vt.edu