Year: 4

Dana Nguyen dabbles in the art of turning caffeine into code. Currently, she is a 4th-year studying Computing in the College of Creative Studies at UCSB.

Dana’s computing interests lie in explaining real-world problems by analyzing influences in networks, particularly those of social networks, and using tools to identify user attributes and abusive behaviors associated with having an online presence. She has interned at NASA Ames Research Center and Intel, and will be interning at Microsoft Research AI this summer. Presently, she is working in the MOMENT Lab with Prof. Elizabeth Belding to detect and prevent gender-based harassment and hate speech in social media.

In her spare time, she likes to collect quotes, write calligraphy, play the ukelele, capture photos, and code. She also loves cracking up jokes and telling stories!

Publications

Mai Elsherief, Vivek Kulkarni, Dana Nguyen, William Yang Wang, and Elizabeth Belding. Hate Lingo: A Target-based Linguistic Analysis of Hate Speech in Social Media. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2018, June 2018, Stanford, California.
Mai Elsherief, Shirin Nilizadeh, Dana Nguyen, Giovanni Vigna, and Elizabeth Belding. Peer to Peer Hate: Hate Speech Instigators and Their Targets. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2018, June 2018, Stanford, California.
Mai Elsherief, Elizabeth Belding and Dana Nguyen. #NotOkay: Understanding Gender-based Violence in Social Media. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2017, May 2017, Montreal, Canada.