COLLEGE PARK — Dr. Naeemul Hassan, a faculty member jointly appointed at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism and College of Information, has earned tenure and been elevated to the rank of associate professor, UMD President Darryll Pines announced.
A leader in applying big data, and data mining principles and methods to journalism and computer science instruction, Hassan joined the UMD faculty in 2019. He directs the Computational Journalism Lab at UMD.
He teaches courses in computational journalism, storytelling with code, data science and algorithms.
"Naeemul truly deserves this,” Merrill College Dean Rafael Lorente said. “His work on information resilience and artificial intelligence are key to Merrill College's efforts to find solutions to journalism's biggest problems — a broken bond of trust with our audience and a broken business model.
"His dual appointment with the College of Information reinforces our collaborative, interdisciplinary spirit, and shows his tremendous value to this university."
Hassan holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Arlington and was previously an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi and the director of their multidisciplinary Data Exploration and Research laboratory (dear.lab).
His interests include computational journalism, social media sensing, data mining and natural language processing. His research focuses on the ways in which different entities use social media as an engagement tool, as well as how to design algorithms that would reduce harm caused by clickbait in social media.
Hassan also co-developed a popular automated fact checking and monitoring platform called ClaimBuster, which assists journalists in ferreting out falsehoods.
For more information, contact:
Josh Land
joshland@umd.edu
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