Samar Haider

@samarhdr

CS PhD student @Penn studying the news and its impact on democracy. Computational social science, natural language processing, communication, cats.

samarh.github.io

Joined September 2012

Samar Haider
@samarhdr
Aug 25
I'm thrilled to share to share that I defended my PhD at @Penn yesterday! I've had the time of my life working with @duncanjwatts and the amazing people at @csspenn over the past several years. Incredibly grateful for the journey and everyone who made it so special!
CSSLab at Penn
@csspenn
Aug 25
Congratulations, Dr. Samar Haider! 🎓🖥️ @samarhdr Samar successfully defended his dissertation, "A Computational Approach to News Production", studying how computational methods can help us systematically understand what news organizations choose to cover and how they cover it.
Samar Haider
@samarhdr
Nov 7, 2018
In cold, windy Madison with this year's class of #Fulbright Scholars from Pakistan. Had an amazing time catching up with some of the nation's best and brightest against the backdrop of @UWMadison and this beautiful city.
Samar Haider
@samarhdr
Sep 17, 2018
Excited to share my work towards improving NLP for low-resource languages: Urdu Word Embeddings, a collection of vector representations of Urdu words trained over more than 140M tokens of raw text. Paper (LREC 2018): lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lr… Download: github.com/samarh/urduvec
Samar Haider
@samarhdr
Dec 31, 2017
Had a fantastic time speaking at Pakistan's first-ever PyCon earlier this month. I gave a talk on deep learning to wrap up the conference. Here are the slides: drive.google.com/open?id=1h4L88…
Samar Haider
@samarhdr
Nov 22, 2017
Very excited to be speaking at PyCon Pakistan 2017, Pakistan's first annual Python convention. I will be giving a talk and tutorial on deep learning with Python. Check out the full conference program and register to attend at: pycon.pk