Biography

Hossein Fani (حسين فاني), he/him, born in Tehran, Iran, 1983, is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Windsor. He has been the team lead in NSERC Industrial Research Chair on Social Media Analytics and Postdoc at LS3, Toronto Metropolitan University. He works in the broad area of Social Information Retrieval (Social IR) with special focus on temporal analysis including team recommendation, web query refinement, and social review analysis. Hossein publishes in venues such as SIGIR, CIKM and ECIR and premier journals, including Elsevier’s IP&M, ACM's TOIS, and Wiley's JASIST. He has been granted three patents by the USPTO for his research including US10,885,131, US11,768,522, and US12,067,625. He is also a PC member at WSDM, KDD, ACL, NAACL, SIGIR, CIKM, and ECIR.