MATTIA SAMORY

# Corsi AA 25/26:

## Fondamenti di Programmazione
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Google Classroom: mv2tfhzi

## Programmazione per il Web
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Google Classroom: 22waqp7y

## Stili di Vita Attivi ed E-Health (modulo e-health)
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WORK EXPERIENCE
2025–ongoing — Associate Professor
Sapienza University of Rome (IT)

2022–2025 — Assistant Professor (RTDb)
Sapienza University of Rome (IT)

2021–2022 — Team Leader for Data Science Methods
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne (DE)

2019–2022 — Postdoctoral Researcher
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne (DE)

2017–2018 — Postdoctoral Researcher
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg (VA, USA)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Visiting Scholar – 2016–2017
Georgia Tech, Atlanta (GA, USA)

Doctorate – 2013–2017 — Ph.D. in Information Engineering
University of Padua (IT)

MSc – 2010–2012 — Computer Science and Engineering
University of Padua (IT)

BSc – 2007–2010 — Computer Science and Engineering
University of Padua (IT)

WORK ACTIVITIES
Task Organizer for the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval) Task on Psycholinguistic Conspiracy Marker Extraction and Detection, 2026.

Track Chair for the Demos, Posters, and Datasets Track at the Int. AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM, ggs A) 2025.

Workshop Organizer for the workshop Quantifying Digital Social Spaces and Fields within the conference Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods (CARME), held in Bonn, Germany carme-n.org 2023.

Task Organizer for the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval) Task on Multilingual news article similarity, 2022.

Organizer for the Computational Social Science Summer School, 2019.

Member of the Saperi&Co. Board at Sapienza.

AWARDS
Best Paper Honorable Mention at AAAI ICWSM 2025.

Best Paper at AAAI ICWSM 2022.

Best Paper Honorable Mention at ACM CSCW 2021.

Best Paper Honorable Mention at ACM CSCW 2020.

Best Program Committee/Senior Program Committee at AAAI ICWSM 2019-2024.

COLLABORATIONS
MS is currently involved in collaborative projects including faculty from UCD, UMass Amherst‬, UIUC, Northeastern, BU, UW, Drexel, KIT, GESIS, UMannheim, OVGU.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
Senior PC Member of the Int. AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM, ggs A) 2023--

PC member of the Int. AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM, ggs A) 2023– • Int. Conference Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW, ggs A+) 2023– • Int ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI, ggs A++) 2024- • (among others)

Reviewer for the Journals • Nature Communications (sjr Q1) • EPJ Data Science (sjr Q1) • PLoS ONE (sjr Q1) • SN Computer Supported Cooperative Work (sjr Q1) • Online Social Networks and Media (sjr Q1) • ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC) (sjr Q2) • (among others)

INVITED PRESENTATIONS
11/2024 Discussant at the Workshop: “Analysis of the emerging figurative language in the public discourse on technoscience”, Padova, Italy.

11/2023 “The computational social science of conspiracy theory communities: from social factors to moderation strategies” at the Conference on Harmful Online Communication (CHOC), Cologne, Germany.

05/2023 “From conspiracy theories to multi-faceted narratives” at GESIS Computational Social Science, Cologne, Germany.

12/2022 “The computational social science of conspiracy theory communities” at the Workshop: Computational Linguistic and Data Science for Social Research, Padova, Italy.

9/2022 Visiting Researcher at GESIS Computational Social Science, Cologne, Germany.

GRANTS
(co-I) GHOST: Protecting User Privacy from Community Detection in Social Networks, research grant in the “large” category at Sapienza University of Rome.

(collaborator) SaTC: CORE: Small: Political misinformation through biased polls, collaborative research funded by NSF.

(co-I) Social media videocracy? A cross-platform and interdisciplinary research on political actors’ audio-visual social media strategies and user engagement responses of young adult voters in the 2024 European elections, research grant in the “large” category at Sapienza University of Rome.

(PI) PNR SEED Grant for the project Conspiracy language on social media: theory-driven automated detection (CONLANG), at Sapienza University of Rome.

(co-I) Meta AI (formerly Facebook Research) – Mephisto funding line.

(deputy PI) VW Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
MS’s work has been covered by international media, including WIRED Magazine, El País, New Scientist, FOX News, ABC News.