Tunazzina Islam
Tunazzina Islam is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science (CS) at Purdue University. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University. She was advised by Dr. Dan Goldwasser. Her research interests broadly lie in AI for Societal Impact, at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Social Science (CSS).
Joined department: Spring 2019
Education
Ph.D., Purdue University, Computer Science (2025)
M.Sc., Old Dominion University (ODU), Computer Science (2018)
B.Sc., Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Computer Science and Engineering (2013)
Tunazzina Islam is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science (CS) at Purdue University. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University. She was advised by Dr. Dan Goldwasser. Her research interests broadly lie in AI for Societal Impact, at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Social Science (CSS).
Selected Publications
Post-hoc Study of Climate Microtargeting on Social Media Ads with LLMs: Thematic Insights and Fairness Evaluation
Tunazzina Islam, Dan Goldwasser. In Findings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025). [Acceptance rate: 17.35%]
Tunazzina Islam, Dan Goldwasser. In Findings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025), pages 7397-7429. [Acceptance rate: 14.7%]
Discovering Latent Themes in Social Media Messaging: A Machine-in-the-Loop Approach Integrating LLMs.
Tunazzina Islam, Dan Goldwasser.
19th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2025). [Acceptance rate: 20%]
Weakly Supervised Learning for Analyzing Political Campaigns on Facebook.
Tunazzina Islam, Shamik Roy, Dan Goldwasser.
17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2023). [Acceptance rate: 20%]
A Holistic Framework for Analyzing the COVID-19 Vaccine Debate. Maria Leonor Pacheco*, Tunazzina Islam*, Monal Mahajan, Andrey Shor, Ming Yin, Lyle Ungar, Dan Goldwasser. (* indicates equal contribution)
2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL 2022). [Acceptance rate: 21%]
Contact Info
DSAI 3130