Published Work


Kamran Kowsari, Mojtaba Heidarysafa, Tolu Odukoya, Philip Potter, Laura E. Barnes, & Donald E. Brown. 2020. "Gender Detection on Social Networks Using Ensemble Deep Learning" Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2020, Volume 1 (pp. 346-358). Springer International Publishing. Available online


Mojtaba Heidarysafa, Kamran Kowsari, Tolu Odukoya, Philip Potter, Laura E. Barnes, &

Donald E. Brown. 2020. "Women in ISIS Propaganda: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Topics and Emotions in a Comparison with a Mainstream Religious Group" In: Arai, K., Kapoor, S., Bhatia, R. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1229. Springer, Cham. Available online


Working Papers


"Keeping The Ex-Enemy Close But Not in My Backyard" - Job Market Paper


"Socioeconomic Class and Community Receptivity to Reintegration of Deradicalized Terrorists"


"Training Sentiment Analysis Models to Identify Jim Crow Sentences from Corpus of Virginia Laws from 1865 - 1968"