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Emilio Ferrara

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

26 papers at tracked venues · 20 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

DBLP profile ↗ORCID 0000-0002-1942-2831 ↗Google Scholar ↗Homepage ↗

Venues

WWW ×15ACL ×3EMNLP ×2AAAI ×1CHI ×1CSCW ×1EACL ×1ICWSM ×1NAACL ×1

Frequent coauthors

Luca Luceri
×14
Leonardo Blas
×3
Jinyi Ye
×3
Priyanka Dey
×3
Eun-Cheol Choi
×3
Julie Jiang
×3
Jonathan May
×3
Emily Chen
×2
Alexander J. Bisberg
×2
Dmitri Williams
×2
Jieyu Zhao
×2
Jonathan Gratch
×2

Papers

  1. Change is Hard: Consistent Player Behavior Across Games with Conflicting Incentives
    CHI 2026 ·
    Emily Chen
    ,
    Alexander J. Bisberg
    ,
    Dmitri Williams
    ,
    Magy Seif El-Nasr
    , Emilio Ferrara
  2. Cross-Platform Narrative Prediction: Leveraging Platform-Invariant Discourse Networks
    WWW 2026 ·
    Patrick Gerard
    ,
    Luca Luceri
    ,
    Leonardo Blas
    , Emilio Ferrara
  3. Emergent Coordinated Behaviors in Networked LLM Agents: Modeling the Strategic Dynamics of Information Operations
    WWW 2026 ·
    Gian Marco Orlando
    ,
    Jinyi Ye
    ,
    Valerio La Gatta
    ,
    Mahdi Saeedi
    ,
    Vincenzo Moscato
    , Emilio Ferrara,
    Luca Luceri
  4. GRAVITY: A Framework for Personalized Text Generation via Profile-Grounded Synthetic Preferences
    EACL 2026 ·
    Priyanka Dey
    ,
    Daniele Rosa
    ,
    Wenqing Zheng
    ,
    Daniel Barcklow
    ,
    Jieyu Zhao
    , Emilio Ferrara
  5. Psychological Steering in LLMs: An Evaluation of Effectiveness and Trustworthiness
    ACL 2026 ·
    Amin Banayeeanzade
    ,
    Ala N. Tak
    ,
    Fatemeh Bahrani
    ,
    Anahita Bolourani
    ,
    Leonardo Blas
    , Emilio Ferrara,
    Jonathan Gratch
    ,
    Sai Praneeth Karimireddy
  6. SilentDrift: Exploiting Action Chunking for Stealthy Backdoor Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Bingxin Xu
    ,
    Yuzhang Shang
    ,
    Binghui Wang
    , Emilio Ferrara
  7. Beyond Interaction Patterns: Assessing Claims of Coordinated Inter-State Information Operations on Twitter/X
    WWW 2025 ·
    Valeria Pantè
    ,
    David Axelrod
    ,
    Alessandro Flammini
    ,
    Filippo Menczer
    , Emilio Ferrara,
    Luca Luceri
  8. Can LLMs Express Personality Across Cultures? Introducing CulturalPersonas for Evaluating Trait Alignment
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Priyanka Dey
    ,
    Aayush Bothra
    ,
    Yugal Khanter
    ,
    Jieyu Zhao
    , Emilio Ferrara
  9. Communication Patterns Predict Team Skill in Multiplayer Online Games
    CSCW 2025 ·
    Alexander J. Bisberg
    ,
    Sonia Jawaid Shaikh
    ,
    Yilei Zeng
    ,
    Fred Morstatter
    ,
    Emily Chen
    , Emilio Ferrara,
    Dmitri Williams
  10. Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election
    WWW 2025 ·
    Federico Cinus
    ,
    Marco Minici
    ,
    Luca Luceri
    , Emilio Ferrara
  11. IOHunter: Graph Foundation Model to Uncover Online Information Operations
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Marco Minici
    ,
    Luca Luceri
    ,
    Francesco Fabbri
    , Emilio Ferrara
  12. Limited Effectiveness of LLM-based Data Augmentation for COVID-19 Misinformation Stance Detection
    WWW 2025 ·
    Eun-Cheol Choi
    ,
    Ashwin Balasubramanian
    ,
    Jinhu Qi
    , Emilio Ferrara
  13. Moral Values Underpinning COVID-19 Online Communication Patterns
    WWW 2025 ·
    Julie Jiang
    ,
    Luca Luceri
    , Emilio Ferrara
  14. Network-informed Prompt Engineering against Organized Astroturf Campaigns under Extreme Class Imbalance
    WWW 2025 ·
    Nikos Kanakaris
    ,
    Heng Ping
    ,
    Xiongye Xiao
    ,
    Nesreen K. Ahmed
    ,
    Luca Luceri
    , Emilio Ferrara,
    Paul Bogdan
  15. The Susceptibility Paradox in Online Social Influence
    ICWSM 2025 ·
    Luca Luceri
    ,
    Jinyi Ye
    ,
    Julie Jiang
    , Emilio Ferrara
  16. Tracking the 2024 US Presidential Election Chatter on TikTok: A Public Multimodal Dataset
    WWW 2025 ·
    Gabriela Pinto
    ,
    Charles Bickham
    ,
    Tanishq Salkar
    ,
    Joyston Menezes
    ,
    Luca Luceri
    , Emilio Ferrara
  17. Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Development of a Public Dataset
    WWW 2025 ·
    Leonardo Blas
    ,
    Luca Luceri
    , Emilio Ferrara
  18. Automated Claim Matching with Large Language Models: Empowering Fact-Checkers in the Fight Against Misinformation
    WWW 2024 ·
    Eun-Cheol Choi
    , Emilio Ferrara
  19. Can Language Model Moderators Improve the Health of Online Discourse?
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Hyundong Cho
    ,
    Shuai Liu
    ,
    Taiwei Shi
    ,
    Darpan Jain
    ,
    Basem Rizk
    ,
    Yuyang Huang
    ,
    Zixun Lu
    ,
    Nuan Wen
    ,
    Jonathan Gratch
    , Emilio Ferrara,
    Jonathan May
  20. Coordinated Activity Modulates the Behavior and Emotions of Organic Users: A Case Study on Tweets about the Gaza Conflict
    WWW 2024 ·
    Priyanka Dey
    ,
    Luca Luceri
    , Emilio Ferrara
  21. Explaining Mixtures of Sources in News Articles
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Alexander Spangher
    ,
    James Youn
    ,
    Matt DeButts
    ,
    Nanyun Peng
    , Emilio Ferrara,
    Jonathan May
  22. FACT-GPT: Fact-Checking Augmentation via Claim Matching with LLMs
    WWW 2024 ·
    Eun-Cheol Choi
    , Emilio Ferrara
  23. Leveraging Large Language Models to Detect Influence Campaigns on Social Media
    WWW 2024 ·
    Luca Luceri
    ,
    Eric Boniardi
    , Emilio Ferrara
  24. Susceptibility to Unreliable Information Sources: Swift Adoption with Minimal Exposure
    WWW 2024 ·
    Jinyi Ye
    ,
    Luca Luceri
    ,
    Julie Jiang
    , Emilio Ferrara
  25. Tracking the Newsworthiness of Public Documents
    ACL 2024 ·
    Alexander Spangher
    ,
    Serdar Tumgoren
    ,
    Ben Welsh
    ,
    Nanyun Peng
    , Emilio Ferrara,
    Jonathan May
  26. Unmasking the Web of Deceit: Uncovering Coordinated Activity to Expose Information Operations on Twitter
    WWW 2024 ·
    Luca Luceri
    ,
    Valeria Pantè
    ,
    Keith Burghardt
    , Emilio Ferrara