Juhi Kulshrestha

Please find my up to date webpage at http://www.juhikulshrestha.com/.

Since April 2018, I have joined the Computational Social Science department at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences as a postdoctoral researcher.

My research focuses on studying how the users are consuming information on Online Social Networks. In particular, I am interested in exploring what sort of information diets are the users producing or consuming on social media and in evaluating what role the automated retrieval services like search and recommendations are playing in shaping their diets.

I am a Ph.D. candidate at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in the Social Computing Research group with Dr. Krishna P. Gummadi as my advisor.

I am a recipient of the Google European Doctoral Fellowship in Social Networking for the year 2011. I am also a Google Anita Borg scholar for the year 2013.

Education

Jul 2011 – Present: PhD Student, MPI-SWS
Advisor: Dr. Krishna Gummadi
Oct 2009 – Present: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School of Computer Science, Saarland University
Mentor: Prof. Dr-Ing. Holger Hermanns
Degree Obtained: M.Sc. in Computer Science
Jul 2007 – Jun 2009: Master's Student, Institute of Informatics and Communication, University of Delhi
Degree Obtained: M.Sc. in Informatics
Jul 2004 –- Jun 2007: Bachelor's Student, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi
Degree Obtained: B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics

Publications

Media Bias Monitor: Quantifying Biases of Social Media News Outlets at Large-Scale
Filipe N. Ribeiro, Lucas Henrique, Fabricio Benevenuto, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Juhi Kulshrestha, Mahmoudreza Babei and Krishna P. Gummadi
In Proc. AAAI Intl. Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Stanford, USA, June 2018
Purple Feed: Identifying High Consensus News Posts on Social Media
Mahmoudreza Babaei, Juhi Kulshrestha, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Fabricio Benevenuto, Krishna P. Gummadi and Adrian Weller
In Proc. AAAI/ACM Conference on Artifical Intelligence, Ethics & Society (AIES), New Orleans, USA, February 2018
[pdf]
Quantifying Search Bias: Investigating Sources of Bias for Political Searches in Social Media
Juhi Kulshrestha, Motahhare Eslami, Johnnatan Messias, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Saptarshi Ghosh, Krishna Gummadi, Karrie Karahalios
In Proc. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), Portland, USA, February 2017
[pdf]| [Twitter-app] | [slides]
This work has also been presented at the Workshop on Data and Algorithmic Transparency, DAT 2016 and at the GESIS CSS Winter Symposium 2016.
The Road to Popularity: The Dilution of Growing Audience on Twitter
Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz, Mahmoudreza Babaei, Juhi Kulshrestha, Ingmar Weber
In Proc. Intl. AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Cologne, Germany, May 2016
[pdf]
Measuring and Managing Information Diets of Social Media Users
Juhi Kulshrestha
CSCW Doctoral Colloquium, In Companion - Proc. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), San Francisco, USA, February 2016
[pdf]
Characterizing Information Diets of Social Media Users
Juhi Kulshrestha, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Lisette Espin Noboa , Krishna P. Gummadi, Saptarshi Ghosh
In Proc. Intl. AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Oxford, UK, May 2015
(acceptance rate 18.37%)
[pdf] | [bibtex] | [Twitter-app] | [slides]
Evaluating Social Recommendation Systems
Juhi Kulshrestha, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Saptarshi Ghosh, Krishna P. Gummadi
In Poster Session, Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN), Dublin, Ireland, October 2014
Deep Twitter Diving: Exploring Topical Groups in Microblogs at Scale
Parantapa Bhattacharya, Saptarshi Ghosh, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Juhi Kulshrestha, Mainack Mondal, Niloy Ganguly, Krishna P. Gummadi
In Proc. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), Baltimore, USA, February 2014
(acceptance rate 26.96%)
[pdf]
Geographic Dissection of the Twitter Network
Juhi Kulshrestha, Farshad Kooti, Ashkan Nikravesh, Krishna P. Gummadi
In Proc. Intl. AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, June 2012
(acceptance rate 20%)
[pdf] | [bibtex] | [Visualization]
A Verified Dependable Wireless Safety Critical Hard Real-Time Design
Hernan Baro Graf, Holger Hermanns, Juhi Kulshrestha, Jens Peter, Anjo Vahldiek, Aravind Vasudevan
In Proc. IEEE Intl Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Lucca, Italy, June 2011
[pdf]
Congestion Control and Fairness for Real-time Media Transmission
Juhi Kulshrestha
Master's Thesis, University of Saarland, 2011
Advisor : Prof. Dr-Ing. Thorsten Herfet, Telecommunication Lab, University of Saarland

Software

Measure & Manage your Information Diet
A service to measure the Information Diets of Twitter users
http://twitter-app.mpi-sws.org/information-diets/

Talks

Conference Talks

Measuring and Managing Information Diets of Social Media Users
CSCW Doctoral Colloquium, San Francisco, USA, February 2016
Characterizing Information Diets of Social Media Users
ICWSM, Oxford, UK, May 2015
Geographic Dissection of the Twitter Network
ICWSM, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, May 2011

Invited Talks

Characterizing Information Production and Consumption on Online Social Media
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India, December 2015
Characterizing Effects of Search & Recommendation Systems on Information Consumed by Social Media Users
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, December 2015

Services

Teaching

Teaching Assistant: "Social Media Analysis"
(Advanced Lecture, University of Saarland, Summer Semester 2016)
Teaching Assistant: "Human vs. Algorithmic-Decision Making: Bias, Fairness & Transparency"
(Seminar, University of Saarland, Winter Semester 2015-16)
Teaching Assistant: "Readings in Social Computing Systems"
(Seminar, University of Saarland, Summer Semester 2013)
Teaching Assistant: "Future Media Internet"
(Advanced Lecture, University of Saarland, Winter Semester 2010-11)