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• Computationally Intensive Research: Advancing a Role for Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data was published in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS). 

• Health Use Cases of AI Chatbots: Identification and Analysis of ChatGPT Prompts in Social Media Discourses was published in Big Data and Cognitive Computing.

• False Information about AI: Did Pope Francis Really Endorse AI as a Divine Channel? was published in Information Matters. 

• Deciphering Latent Health Information in Social Media Using a Mixed-Methods Design was published in Healthcare. 

• Received the ASIS&T SIG Social Media Annual Workshop Best Paper Award Honorable Mention for "Analysis of Geotagging Behavior: Do Geotagged Users Represent the Twitter Population?".

• Joined UAB Collat School of Business as an Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods/Business Analytics in the Department of Management, Information Systems & Quantitative Methods. 

• Appoitned as the Associate Dean for Research at the UofSC College of Information and Communications for three years.

• 2020 U.S. presidential election in swing states: Gender differences in Twitter conversations was published in International Journal of Information Management Data Insights.

• Social media and COVID-19: Characterizing anti-quarantine comments on Twitter was among the top 10 most downloaded papers in Wiley. 

• Received the Healthcare 2021 Young Investigator (Under 40) Award.

• I am the guest editor for the Open-Access Special Issue "Social Media for Health Information Management" for Healthcare (IF: 3.160 & Indexed in PubMed).

• The leading neighborhood-level predictors of drug overdose: A mixed machine learning and spatial approach was published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.