Mai ElSherief

Contact

Northeastern University

West Village H, Room 360

440 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

m.elsherif@northeastern.edu

Bio: Mai ElSherief is an Assistant Professor of AI and Social Justice at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech between 2019-2021 and received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara in 2019.

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing

  • Responsible NLP

  • Computational Social Science

  • Language & Mental Health

Human-Computer Interaction

  • Online Safety

  • Pro-Social Behavior

Hiring

I am hiring two talented Ph.D. students to work with me at Northeastern University.

Check out this video of why students choose Khoury College of Computer Sciences and this tour of Northeastern.

NEWS

Nov. 2023: I received a Google Trust and Safety Research Award to work on migrant misinformation. Thank you Google!

Nov. 2023: Paper accepted to JMIR JFR!! We develop a computational model to detect new misinformation surrounding Opioid Use Disorder.

Sept. 2023: I joined Khoury College of Computer Sciences as an Assistant Professor of AI + Social Justice