I am a quantitative researcher studying the dissemination and exchange of persuasive information at the Heinz College of Carnegie Mellon University. I design randomized experiments, quasi-experimental studies, and develop natural language processing and graph mining methods to empirically characterize the role of mental shortcuts in scenarios involving persuasive communication, such as online deliberation and scholarly peer review. I am advised by Dokyun Lee and George Chen, and my research is supported by a McKinsey & Company Ph.D. Fellowship.
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Working Papers
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- On the Persuasive Power of Reputation in Deliberation Online
- Emaad Manzoor, George Chen, Dokyun Lee, Michael D. Smith
- Major revision (first round) at Management Science
- Resources: Website, Preprint, Discussion slides by Laura K. Nelson
- Impact: Best paper (e-business cluster) finalist at INFORMS 2019
- Funding: CMU GuSH Grant / CMU GSA-Provost Grant
- Talks (2020): Stanford Computational Sociology / MIT IC2S2 / SCECR / Marketing Science Conference / CIST
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- Linguistic Determinants of Persuasive Message Elaboration
- Emaad Manzoor, Dokyun Lee, George H. Chen, Alan L. Montgomery
- Work in progress
- Talks (2019): Marketing Science Conference / CIST / INFORMS Workshop on Data Science
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- Uncovering Latent Biases in Text
- Emaad Manzoor, Nihar B. Shah
- Under review
- Resources: Website, Preprint, Code & Data
- Talks (2020): INFORMS Workshop on Data Science
Publications
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- Detecting Attackable Sentences in Arguments
- Yohan Jo, Seojin Bang, Emaad Manzoor, Eduard Hovy, Chris Reed
- Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
- Resources: Paper, Code & Data
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- Expanding Taxonomies with Implicit Edge Semantics
- Emaad Manzoor, Dhananjay Shrouty, Rui Li, Jure Leskovec
- The Web Conference (WWW), 2020
- Resources: Website, Paper, Code & Data, Slides, Video
- Impact: External press, Production launch, Patent filed in Oct. ‘19
- Funding: CMU GSA-Provost Grant
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- xStream: Outlier Detection in Feature-Evolving Data Streams
- Emaad Manzoor, Hemank Lamba, Leman Akoglu
- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2018
- Resources: Website, Paper, Code, Data, Slides, Video, Poster
- Impact: Assigned reading in York University’s Data Mining
- Funding: CMU GSA-Provost Grant
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- RUSH! Targeted Time-limited Coupons via Purchase Forecasts
- Emaad Manzoor, Leman Akoglu
- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2017
- Resources: Paper, Code, Poster
- Funding: PNC Center for Financial Services Innovation
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- Fast Memory-Efficient Anomaly Detection in Streaming Heterogeneous Graphs
- Emaad Manzoor, Sadegh M. Milajerdi, Leman Akoglu
- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2016
- Resources: Website, Paper, Code, Data, Slides, Video, Poster
- Impact: Assigned reading in the Advanced Computer Security (UIUC, Spring ‘20) and Advanced Data Mining (University of Michigan, Winter ‘19) graduate courses
- Funding: DARPA Transparent Computing
Manuscripts
Note on Publication Venues
Computer science research is disseminated primarily via conference proceedings. WWW and KDD are flagship conferences of the data mining subdomain (ranked A* by CORE). EMNLP is one of the top conferences in the natural language processing and computational linguistics subdomain (based on the Google Scholar h5-index).
Academic business research is disseminated primarily via journal publications. Management Science, Marketing Science, Information Systems Research and Management Information Systems Quarterly comprise the highest tier of journals in the information systems and quantitative marketing subdomain (ranked by the Financial Times).