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Yasas Senarath

@wayasas

Ph.D. Student @GeorgeMasonU • GRA @human_info_lab | #NLU #KnowledgeBases #KnowledgeInfusedLearning #ExplanableAI #DataScience | #SriLanka

 Fairfax, VA
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Joined October 2014
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Big congrats to Yasas @wayasas for getting paper accepted at #IEEE #ICDM21!! 🥳🥳👏👏👏 -- "Practitioner-Centric Approach for Early Incident Detection Using Crowdsourced Data for Emergency Services" Keep it up!
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Proud of @human_info_lab @GeorgeMasonU PhD student @wayasas (Yasas Senarath). Today he talks at the @SBPBRiMS Int'l Conference about mining social media for COVID-19 risk behaviors sbp-brims.org/2021/program/ @hemant_pt #SBPBRIMS
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Fedor Vitiugin@vitiugin29 Jun 2021
Happy to share that our paper "Efficient Detection of Multilingual Hate Speech by Using Interactive Attention Network with Minimal Human Feedback" with @hemant_pt and @wayasas available in the proceedings of WebSci'21 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34475…

Efficient Detection of Multilingual Hate Speech by Using Interactive Attention Network with Minimal...

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Congratulations to Hoang Long Nguyen for presenting our paper on #BigData Repository for #Community #Resilience at the @iscram2021 conference. It's a joint work of @longnh238 and @raa8 of @vestforsk with @hemant_pt and @wayasas of @human_info_lab.
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Big congrats to @vitiugin @wayasas @hemant_pt for getting paper accepted at ACM @WebSciConf 2021 🥳🎇 -- 'Detection of Multilingual Hate Speech by Using Interactive Attention Network with Minimal Human Feedback' #HumanAIcollaboration #WebSci21
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The VERT program at @MontCoCERT is thrilled to again be working w/ @human_info_lab @hemant_pt @wayasas in 2021 to filter & analyze social media data related to #CovidVaccine using CitizenHelper!
Humanitarian-Informatics-Lab (@human_info_lab) profile pictureHumanitarian-Informatics-Lab@human_info_lab6 Apr 2020
Our lab is proud to support the initiative of DMV region CERTs led by Montgomery County CERT's Virtual Operations Team @EmergencyComms to filter & analyze social media for actionable intelligence on #COVID19, using our CitizenHelper tool from #NSF_CRII proj.
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Excited to continue supporting @MontCoCERT efforts for social media mining.. it was a pleasure to see #CitizenHelper tool (citizenhelper.orc.gmu.edu/) from our @NSF CRII project in the VERT Kick-Off meeting presentation today! cc @EmergencyComms @hemant_pt @wayasas @RahulPandeyGMU
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Our lab led by @hemant_pt at @VolgenauSchool is excited to continue collaboration w/ @MontCoCERT @EmergencyComms @keristephens @PIOResearcher & Chris Zobel,VTech for #NSFCIVIC, piloting human-AI teaming w/ #CitizenHelper tool for community resilience citizenhelper.orc.gmu.edu
NSFCIVIC (@NSFCIVIC) profile pictureNSFCIVIC@NSFCIVIC17 Feb 2021
STAGE 1 AWARDEES ANNOUNCED! @NSF, in partnership with @ENERGY and @DHSgov, announced the 52 Stage 1 awardees of the Civic Innovation Challenge. See the projects here: nsfcivicinnovation.org/stage…
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Here are some of the many who helped over these months: @GeorgeMasonU @hemant_pt @wayasas @RahulPandeyGMU @human_info_lab @PIOResearcher @keristephens @UTAustin @GISCorps @CEDRdigital @SWBProbono @codybuntain @NJITYingWu @richardm @UofGlasgow @FEMA @greenbeltcert #InThisTogether
Montgomery Co CERT (@MontCoCERT) profile pictureMontgomery Co CERT@MontCoCERT23 Jul 2020
Thank you to our many CERT members & partners who have assisted VERT efforts over the past 5 months. Here is a summary of what the Virtual Emergency Response Team is doing. VERT Progress Report (July 2020) youtu.be/7sLLTWuGqFg via @YouTube
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Hemant Purohit@hemant_pt13 Apr 2020
Our lab is proud to support this initiative of MCCERT & DMV region CERT volunteer orgs through timely assistance of human-AI teaming to filter social web streams for #covid19 response cc @VolgenauSchool @GeorgeMasonU special kudos to @wayasas @RahulPandeyGMU @EmergencyComms
Montgomery Co CERT (@MontCoCERT) profile pictureMontgomery Co CERT@MontCoCERT13 Apr 2020
In March, 60 vols teamed up w/ @human_info_lab to rank tweets for relevance using the M/L tool, CitizenHelper. The collaboration focused on finding National Capital Region #COVID risk & prevention data. Thanks to several area CERT orgs who assisted!
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Mason CEC@Mason_CEC4 Feb 2020
Professor uses tech to tackle social problems shar.es/a3Q3xf
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@sapinker5 Feb 2020
Third lecture in my Harvard course on Rationality, "Logic and Logical Thinking": harvard.hosted.panopto.com/P…
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Our Ph.D. student Yasas Senarath @wayasas presented his work on detecting hate intent on social media with @hemant_pt at 14th IEEE #SemanticComputing conference at San Diego, CA #ICSC2020
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Happy New Year!!! #2020
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First time in metro rail.... 4 months from last train ride... Awesome !!! 🚊
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Hemant Purohit@hemant_pt4 Dec 2019
And we had an excellent practitioner-led panels on operational and tech. challenges for disaster management w/ @EmergencyComms -Montgomery CERT, @krpicchione -FEMA, Shannon Scaff -Charleston EM director, Rick Devoe Sea Grant Cons. ..Lots of learning #NSF #ConvergenceAccelerator
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Steve Peterson (@EmergencyComms) profile pictureSteve Peterson@EmergencyComms4 Dec 2019
Replying to @EmergencyComms
Great first day! Many champions in research & practice shared their experiences w/ #AI. The day concluded w/ a nice poster/demo session. Looking forward to continuing the talks tomorrow. #AIAccelerator
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My first paper as a PhD student got accepted! 😊 Special Thanks @hemant_pt & @human_info_lab
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It was a great pleasure to host Prof. Abhishek Dubey from @VanderbiltU today at @VolgenauSchool . Insightful talk on engineering the operational systems for the future of #resilientcities, and valuable student interactions. #SmartCities
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Proud of our students' work on #AI augmented learning analytics system to support near-realtime debriefs of first responder training this Monday.. using comp vision w/ our stream analytics platform that resulted from @NSF_CISE CRII project #aiforgood news:finance.yahoo.com/news/smart…
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Our PhD student @RahulPandeyGMU presenting his joint research work with @ChaToX and @hemant_pt on modeling human annotation errors at #ASONAM2019 @ASONAM_News
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