Press coverage of the lab’s research, awards, and people. If we have missed something, tell us through contact.
2026
- Syracuse University launches artificial intelligence research institute — Syracuse.com, September 25, 2026. Coverage of our work on Memory effects in Large Language Models.
2025
- 2 ECS Faculty Members Achieve Research Citation Milestones — Syracuse University News, November 24, 2025. Reza Zafarani’s work passes 10,000 citations.
- Associate Professor Reza Zafarani Receives Test of Time Award from ACM — Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science. The WSDM Test of Time Award, presented at WSDM 2025 in Hanover, Germany, for our 2015 paper on sarcasm detection. Watch the award talk.
2022
- 2022 Engineering and Computer Science Research Day Awards — Syracuse University News, March 29, 2022. Xinyi Zhou’s Best Oral Presentation award. (archived copy)
- Fake news research highlighted in ACM’s AI/ML showcase on the Kudos platform — for Fake News Early Detection: A Theory-Driven Model (Digital Threats: Research and Practice).
2020
- Detecting Fake News — The Data Exchange Podcast, Episode 48 — Gradient Flow, November 5, 2020. Xinyi Zhou, then a PhD student in the lab, interviewed by Ben Lorica about our ACM Computing Surveys fake news survey. Watch on YouTube.
- Professor Reza Zafarani Receives NSF CAREER Award to Study Intersection of Humans and Networks — Syracuse University News, September 29, 2020. The five-year award behind our work on evaluating network-based findings. (archived copy)
- Syracuse professors working to develop A.I. technology to combat fake news — WSYR-TV (NewsChannel 9), August 2020. Coverage of the University-wide effort to build AI systems that detect manipulated media and misinformation.
2019
- AI Squares Off Against Fake News — Datanami, September 2, 2019. Reporting on our KDD 2019 tutorial on fake news detection, with Xinyi Zhou, Kai Shu, and Huan Liu.
- What Is Fake News? Is the Debate Worth the Effort? — Psychology Today, February 2019. Draws on our work defining fake news and its erosion of public trust.
- Students’ fresh perspectives lead ASU researcher to success — ASU News, February 14, 2019. Profile of Huan Liu’s lab, featuring our work on identifying users across social media platforms.
2018
- ECS Professor Secures Yahoo Donation of Servers for Research Processing — Syracuse University News, May 15, 2018. The 4,000-core donation behind the lab’s computing clusters. (archived copy)
2017
- High School Students Join SU Labs as Summer Research Interns — Syracuse University News, July 31, 2017. Our summer interns; two later co-authored the WSDM 2020 WebShapes paper. (archived copy)
Links marked “archived copy” point to the Internet Archive, because the original Syracuse University News pages are no longer online at their published addresses.