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Short bio: Muhammad Imran works as a Scientist and lead of the Crisis Computing team at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). His interdisciplinary research focuses on natural language processing, social computing, applied machine learning, human-computer interaction, and stream processing areas. He analyzes social media communications during time-critical situations using big data analysis techniques such as data mining, machine learning, and deep neural networks. He develops novel computational models, techniques, and technologies useful for stakeholders to gain situational awareness and actionable information during sudden onset disasters.

Dr. Imran received his PhD in computer science from the University of Trento in 2013. He then worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at QCRI from 2013-2015. Dr. Imran has published over 80 research papers in top-tier international conferences and journals including ACL, SIGIR, IJHCI, ICWSM, WWW, ASONAM, and ACM HT. Four of his papers received the "Best Paper Award" and two "Best Paper Runner-up Award." He has been serving as a co-chair of the Social Media Studies track of the ISCRAM international conference since 2014 and has served as Program Committee for many major conferences and workshops. Dr. Imran co-taught various computer science courses and conducted labs during his PhD from 2009 to 2012 at UniTN. Dr. Imran holds a Master of Science in Computer Science degree with a distinction from the Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad (2007).

For more information, see his detailed curriculum vitae. (Updated September 2020)

Public profiles: Google Scholar | ResearchGate | LinkedIn

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Latest news:

• CFP Special issue 2020: Special Issue on Big Data in Epidemics in the Journal of Big Data Research. More details here.


• CFP Special issue 2019: Special Issue on Using AI and Social Media for Disaster Response and Management in the Journal of Information Processing and Management. More details here.


• CFP ISCRAM 2018: The topics of interest to ISCRAM'18 include, but are not limited to: crisis informatics, geographic information systems (GIS), social media studies, human-computer interaction, humanitarian information management, situation awareness, visual analytics. More details.


• 2017 April: CFP-Special issue - Co-organizing a Special Issue: Social Media in Crisis Management in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI). Deadline July 1st 2017. Consider submitting your papers.


• 2017 April: CFP-Special issue - Co-organizing a Special Issue: Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness in the Journal Information Systems Frontiers. Deadline July 1st 2017. Consider submitting your papers.


• 2016 Oct: Our paper A Robust Framework for Classifying Evolving Document Streams in an Expert-Machine-Crowd Setting. got accepted in ICDM 2016 conference.
  


• 2016 Sep: - Delighted to give a keynote talk at the ICIC-2016 conference.
  


• 2016 May: - Received the Best Paper Award at ISCRAM 2016 conference for our paper Cross-Language Domain Adaptation for Classifying Crisis-Related Short Messages.


• May 2016 - Honored to be invited to give a keynote talk at the ISCRAM 2016 conference.


• April 2015 - Journal paper got accepted @ ACM Computing Surveys


• May 2013 - Best Paper Award @ ISCRAM'13
  We were delighted to be awarded the best paper award for our paper Extracting Information Nuggets from Disaster-Related Messages in Social Media. This described our recent work submitted to ISCRAM2013 where we explored the role of microblogging websites during emergencies... more