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. Her research interests broadly lie in AI for Societal Impact, at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Social Science (CSS). Her Ph.D. thesis proposal was accepted at the AAAI-25 Doctoral Consortium and won the best poster award in the 2025 AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium. Her work appears in leading venues including AAAI ICWSM, NAACL, EMNLP, ACL, AAAI, AAAI/ACM AIES, ACM WebSci, IEEE BigData. Her work has received recognitions (NAACL’25 Diversity & Inclusion Award, 2025 Graduate Women in Science Program Award from Purdue College of Science, CRA-W Grad Cohort Award, Grace Hopper Scholar), funding (Purdue Graduate School Summer Research Grant, ACM-W Scholarship). For her teaching contributions, she received the Graduate Teaching Award from the Purdue CS Department. She served as a Vice President of the Computer Science Graduate Student Association (CSGSA), Purdue University, from 2022 to 2023. To support the research community, she became ICWSM ambassador, introducing the conference to interested researchers and individuals from underrepresented groups. She has served as Tutorial Co-chair of ICWSM 2026, ICWSM 2025, Senior Program Committee (SPC) member of ICWSM, Area Chair for ACL Rolling Review (ARR), and Associate Chair for CSCW 2024, CSCW 2025. Additionally, she has been a reviewer for numerous NLP, CSS, HCI, and AI conferences and workshops since 2020. To foster the Data Science research community, she organized a tutorial on "Analyzing Microtargeting on Social Media" at the 2024 Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) Annual Meeting. She was the organizer and chair of the Birds of a Feather (BoF) session in NAACL’25 on “Understanding and Analyzing Microtargeting Patterns on Social Media”.