Mohit Singhal
(he/him)
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research interests
- Data science
- Security and privacy
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Arlington
- MS in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Arlington
- BTech in Computer Science and Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology — India
Biography
Mohit Singhal is an assistant teaching professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
Singhal’s research focuses on content moderation and how it affects users and platforms. The specifics of platform governance and enforcement hold a lot of sway over user behavior, and Singhal works to understand how challenges and gaps in content moderation can lead to catastrophe. Additionally, his research examines how biases in automated moderation systems and ranking systems affect users and businesses. His research was the first to uncover the spread of misinformation about security and privacy threats on Zoom, and his work on content moderation has been cited in multiple cases at the US Supreme Court and the European Union.
Singhal joined Khoury College after completing his doctorate in computer science with a focus on computational social sciences and social media content moderation. He is excited to contribute to the world around him and honor his own instructors by educating the next generation of computer scientists.
In his free time, Singhal enjoys playing tennis, swimming, traveling, and reading World War II history and thrillers.
Recent publications
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Impact of Stricter Content Moderation on Parler’s Users’ Discourse
Citation: Nihal Kumarswamy, Mohit Singhal, Shirin Nilizadeh. (2023). Impact of Stricter Content Moderation on Parler's Users' Discourse CoRR, abs/2310.08844. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.08844 -
Auditing Yelp’s Business Ranking and Review Recommendation Through the Lens of Fairness
Citation: Mohit Singhal, Javier Pacheco, Tanushree Debi, Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi, Abolfazl Asudeh, Gautam Das , Shirin Nilizadeh. (2023). Auditing Yelp's Business Ranking and Review Recommendation Through the Lens of Fairness CoRR, abs/2308.02129. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.02129 -
SoK: Content Moderation in Social Media, from Guidelines to Enforcement, and Research to Practice
Citation: Mohit Singhal, Chen Ling , Pujan Paudel, Poojitha Thota, Nihal Kumarswamy, Gianluca Stringhini, Shirin Nilizadeh. (2023). SoK: Content Moderation in Social Media, from Guidelines to Enforcement, and Research to Practice EuroS&P, 868-895. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSP57164.2023.00056 -
Cybersecurity Misinformation Detection on Social Media: Case Studies on Phishing Reports and Zoom’s Threat
Citation: Mohit Singhal, Nihal Kumarswamy, Shreyasi Kinhekar, Shirin Nilizadeh. (2023). Cybersecurity Misinformation Detection on Social Media: Case Studies on Phishing Reports and Zoom's Threat ICWSM, 796-807. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22189