Salem Othman

Salem Othman

Biography

I am an assistant professor in the School of Computing and Data Science at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. I graduated with a Bachelor in Science in Computer Science from Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Beyda, Libya in 2001. After receiving my B.S., I worked as a database programmer for many clients. I received my Master’s degree in November 2006 from Sirte University, Libya. In 2018, I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Kent State University.

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Research Interests

  • Computational Social Science
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Machine learning
  • Natural language processing
  • Emojiset Mining
  • Epidemiology

Publications



Automatic Extraction of Emojiset
Caleb Franco, William Bernier, Phil Roesch, Salem Othman

Analyzing Co-occurrence Networks of Emojis on Twitter
Hasan Alsaif, Salem Othman

Analyzing Music Genre Popularity via Tweets
Jose Fossi, Adam Dzwonkowski, Salem Othman

Current Projects


Emojiset Mining

Emojiset Page

The Emojiset Mining team has created a website that can analyze emojisets from tweets and infer the meaning behind them. The code is capable of pulling tweets given various settings, and can either provide a small or large data set, which can be sent to users via email.


Epidemiology

Epidemiology Page

The team has implemented a new model named Biased Majority rule model which consists of a model that resembles how opinions spread through majorities. The model contains 3 states: Adopter, Rejector and Undecided and includes a bias parameter that can be modified by the user.

My Teams

Meet the team! (click their portrait to view their personal page)



Nikita Voronin

Nikita Voronin

Emojiset Mining


Caleb Franco

Caleb Franco

Emojiset Mining


Adam Dzwonkowski

Adam Dzwonkowski

Emojiset Mining


Sancho Rodríguez

Sancho Rodríguez

Epidemiology



Martin King

Martin King

Epidemiology


Edwin Armas

Edwin Armas

Epidemiology


Endi Caushi

Endi Caushi

Emojiset Mining


Phillip Roesch

Phillip Roesch

Emojiset Mining



Omar Abou Nassif Mourad

Omar Abou Nassif Mourad

Epidemiology


Joshua Moorehead

Joshua Moorehead

Epidemiology


Garvin Gerard

Garvin Gerard

Epidemiology


Hasan Saif

Hasan Saif

Emojiset Mining


Contact Us

Address

  145 Dobbs Hall, 550 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, US

  +1 617-989-4508

  othmans1@wit.edu