people
members of the lab
Islam Eldifrawi (In Progress) , Université de Sherbrooke
Student Degree Start Date: 2023/9
Student Degree Expected Date: 2027/9
Thesis/Project Title: Explainable Automatic Fact Checking
Other Supervisors: Co-Supervisor - Wang, Shengrui
Present Position: PhD Student - Etudiant Doctorat, Université de Sherbrooke - Canada
Faisal Tareque Shohan (In Progress) , Université de Sherbrooke
Student Degree Start Date: 2025/1
Thesis/Project Title: Simulating Online Communities: Creating Realistic Virtual Characters and Modeling Toxic and Healthy Conversational Dynamics
Present Position: Etudiant Maitrise - Master Student, Université de Sherbrooke - Canada
Amir Ben Khalifa (In Progress) , Université de Sherbrooke
Student Degree Start Date: 2024/5
Thesis/Project Title: Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC)
Other Supervisors: Co-Supervisor - Abdulrazak, Bessam
Present Position: Etudiant Maitrise - Master Student, Université de Sherbrooke - Canada
Anthony Dubreuil (Completed) , Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Etienne - France
Student Degree Start Date: 2024/2
Thesis/Project Title: Identifying Bias in Stance Detection Models
Present Position: Etudiant en Maitrise - Master student, Université Jean Monnet - Saint Etienne - France
Abu Ubaida Akash (Completed) , Université de Sherbrooke
Student Degree Start Date: 2023/9
Student Degree Received Date: 2025/9
Thesis/Project Title: Zero-Shot Open Target Stance Detection
Present Position: Etudiant Maitrise - Master Student, Université de Sherbrooke - Canada
Ahmed Mostafa Fahmy (Completed) , Université de Sherbrooke
Student Degree Start Date: 2023/9
Student Degree Received Date: 2025/9
Thesis/Project Title: Dense Retrieval in Unstructured Financial Reports
Present Position: Etudiant Maitrise - Master Student, Université de Sherbrooke - Canada
Maia Sutter (Completed) , Université Jean Monnet - Saint Etienne
Student Degree Start Date: 2021/9
Thesis/Project Title: Unsupervised stance detection for social media discussions: A more generic baseline
Present Position: Ingénieure intégration de données - Data Integration Engineer, MiddleWay - France
Mohamed Sadegh Khorsavani (Completed) , Lakehead University
Student Degree Start Date: 2022/9
Thesis/Project Title: Argument Summarization: Enhancing Summary Generation and Evaluation Metrics
Present Position: Data Scientist - Scientifique de données, XPAWN - Ontario - Canada
Udhaya Kumar Rajendran (Completed) , Lakehead University
Student Degree Start Date: 2021/1
Student Degree Received Date: 2022/12
Thesis/Project Title: Contrastive Representation Learning for Stance Detection in Text
Present Position: Analyste de données - Data Analyst, Scotia Bank - Canada
Paritosh Goyal (Completed) , University of Alberta
Student Degree Start Date: 2019/9
Student Degree Received Date: 2022/9
Thesis/Project Title: Exploring Preferential Label Smoothing for Neural Network based Classifiers
Present Position: Scientifique en apprentissage machine - Machine Learning Scientist, OKAKI - Canada
Fanny Bezoncon (In Progress) , Polytech Nantes - France
Student Degree Start Date: 2024/9
Student Degree Expected Date: 2026/6
Thesis/Project Title: Emotion Recognition in Conversations
Present Position: Etudiante au Bacc - Bchelor`s student, Polytech Nantes - France
Maryem Ben Ali (Completed) , École Nationale des Sciences de l’Informatique - Tunisia
Student Degree Start Date: 2024/2
Thesis/Project Title: Stereotype Detection in Hate Speech
Present Position: Quantitative Researcher, Quant-Dev -Tunisie - Tunisia
Fanny Bezoncon (In Progress) , Polytech Nantes - France
Student Degree Start Date: 2024/9
Student Degree Expected Date: 2026/6
Thesis/Project Title: Emotion Recognition in Conversations
Present Position: Etudiante au Bacc - Bchelor`s student, Polytech Nantes - France
Amir Ben Khalifa (Completed) , École Nationale des Sciences de l’Informatique - Tunisia
Student Degree Start Date: 2023/5
Thesis/Project Title: Construction d’un agent conversationnel, compagnon de personnes âgées, en utilisant des grands modèles de langage
Present Position: Etudiant Maitrise - Master Student, Université de Sherbrooke - Canada
Anushka Sethi (Completed) , Delhi Technological University, India
Student Degree Start Date: 2022/4
Thesis/Project Title: MITACS Globalink Research Internship: Mining Anti-social Behaviour in Social Media
Present Position: Scientifique des données - Data Scientist, ReNew (an Indian clean energy company) - Inde - India
Naman Ahuja (Completed) , International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India
Degree Name: MSc
Specialization: Computer Science
Student Degree Start Date: 2022/4
Thesis/Project Title: MITACS Globalink Research Internship: Mining Anti-social Behaviour in Social Media
Present Position: Etudiant Maitrise - Master Student, Arizona State University - Etats Unis - USA
Supriti Vijay (Completed) , SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India
Degree Name: MSc
Specialization: Computer Science
Student Degree Start Date: 2022/4
Thesis/Project Title: MITACS Globalink Research Internship: Mining Anti-social Behaviour in Social Media
Present Position: Etudiante en Maitrise - Master Student, Language Technologies Institute (LTI) - Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) - Etats Unis - USA