Dr. Alexander Nwala

Dr. Alexander Nwala

Asst. Professor, Data Science

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You can also find my publications on my Google Scholar profile.

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Conferences and Workshops (Peer-Reviewed)

  1. Christopher Torres-Lugo, Manita Pote, Alexander Nwala, and Filippo Menczer, “Manipulating Twitter Through Deletions,” In Proceedings of AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). june 2022.    
  2. Alexander C. Nwala, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Garbage, Glitter, or Gold: Assigning Multi-dimensional Quality Scores to Social Media Seeds for Web Archive Collections,” In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). September 2021, pp. 80-89.    
  3. Dhruv Patel, Alexander C. Nwala, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “What Did It Look Like: A service for creating website timelapses using the Memento framework,” In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). September 2021, pp. 340-341, poster.    
  4. Alexander Nwala, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Using Micro-collections in Social Media to Generate Seeds for Web Archive Collections,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Urbana-Champaign, IL, June 2019, pp. 251-–260.    
  5. Grant Atkins, Alexander Nwala, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Measuring News Similarity Across Ten U.S. News Sites,” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPres). Boston, MA, September 2018.    
  6. Shawn M. Jones, Alexander Nwala, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “The Many Shapes of Archive-It,” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPres). Boston, MA, September 2018.    
  7. Alexander Nwala, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Bootstrapping Web Archive Collections from Social Media,” In Proceedings of ACM Hypertext (HT). Baltimore, MD, July 2018.  
  8. Alexander Nwala, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Scraping SERPs for archival seeds: it matters when you start,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Fort Worth, TX, June 2018, pp. 263-272.    
  9. Alexander C. Nwala, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Adam B. Ziegler, and Anastasia Aizman, “Local Memory Project: Providing Tools to Build Collections of Stories for Local Events from Local Sources,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 2017, pp. 219–-228.  
  10. Jayawardana, Yasith, Nwala, Alexander C, Jayawardena, Gavindya, Wu, Jian, Jayarathna, Sampath, Nelson, Michael L, and Giles, C Lee, “Modeling Updates of Scholarly Webpages Using Archived Data,” In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020). 2020.  
  11. Alexander Nwala, and Michael L. Nelson, “A Supervised Learning Algorithm for Binary Domain Classification of Web Queries using SERPs,” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). 2016, pp. 237-238, Best Poster Award, 3rd place.    

Journals and Magazines

  1. Nwala, Alexander C., Flammini, Alessandro, and Menczer, Filippo, “A Language Framework for Modeling Social Media Account Behavior,” EPJ Data Science, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2023, p. 33.    
  2. Whelan, Eoin C, Nwala, Alexander C, Osgood, Christopher, and Olariu, Stephan, “Selective mutation accumulation: a computational model of the paternal age effect,” Bioinformatics, Vol. 32, No. 24, 2016, pp. 3790-3797.  
  3. He, Wu, Kshirsagar, Ashish, Nwala, Alexander, and Li, Yaohang, “Teaching Information Security with Workflow Technology–A Case Study Approach.,” Journal of Information Systems Education, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2014.  

Other (Poster Presentations, Dissertation, Misc)

  1. Alexander Nwala, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “365 Dots in 2019: Quantifying Attention of News Sources,” Poster/demo accepted at the Computation + Journalism Symposium (symposium cancelled due to COVID-19), May 2020.