About

I’m Nazanin, Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). I’m advised by Dr. Mai ElSherief and Dr. Kristen Vaccaro.

Research Interests: Societal Computing, Computational Social Science (CSS), Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Social Good, Applied Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Online Safety & Content Moderation

Feel free to email me or check out my CV or Google Scholar profile.

Publications

• Nazanin Sabri, Yutong Chen, Marissa Lee, Steven P. Dow, Kristen Vaccaro, and Mai Elsherief. 2025. “The Balancing Act of Social Audio Facilitators: When Self-Promotion Overshadows Community Care”. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 2, Article CSCW083 (May 2025), 34 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3710981
• Nazanin Sabri, Bella Chen, Annabelle Teoh, Steven P. Dow, Kristen Vaccaro, and Mai Elsherief. 2023. “Challenges of Moderating Social Virtual Reality”. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 384, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581329
• Ashwin Rao, Nazanin Sabri, Siyi Guo, Louiqa Raschid, and Kristina Lerman. “Public Health Messaging on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Observational Study.” Journal of Medical Internet Research 27 (2025): e63910.
• Nazanin Sabri, Anh Pham, Ishita Kakkar, and Mai ElSherief. “Inferring Mental Burnout Discourse Across Reddit Communities.” In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact, pp. 224-231. 2024.
• Nazanin Sabri, Sadaf Sadeghian, and Behnam Bahrak. “A cross-country study on cultural similarities based on book preferences.” Social Network Analysis and Mining, 10, 86 (2020).
• Nazanin Sabri, Ridhi Kashyap, and Ingmar Weber. “Examining Global Mobile Diffusion and Mobile Gender Gaps through Facebook’s Advertising Data.” In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, pp. 287-290. 2021.
• Nazanin Sabri, and Ingmar Weber. “A Global Book Reading Dataset.” Data 6, no. 8 (2021): 83.
• Nazanin Sabri, Ali Edalat, and Behnam Bahrak. “Sentiment Analysis of Persian- English Code-mixed Texts.” 2021 26th International Computer Conference, Computer Society of Iran (CSICC). IEEE, 2021.
• Alireza Salemi, Nazanin Sabri, Emad Kebriaei, Behnam Bahrak, Azadeh Shakery. “UTNLP at SemEval-2021 Task 5: A Comparative Analysis of Toxic Span Detection using Attention-based, Named Entity Recognition, and Ensemble Models.” In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2021.
• Tolulope Ogunremi, Nazanin Sabri, Valerio Basile, Tommaso Caselli. “Leveraging Bias in Pre-trained Word Embeddings for Unsupervised Microaggression Detection.” to appear in CLiC-it 2021 Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2021.
• Nazanin Sabri, Reyhane Akhavan, and Behnam Bahrak. “EmoPars: A Collection of 30K Emotion-Annotated Persian Social Media Texts.” Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop Associated with RANLP 2021. 2021.
• Emad Kebriaei, Samaneh Karimi, Nazanin Sabri, and Azadeh Shakery. “Emad at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Offensive language identification using traditional machine learning and deep learning approaches.” In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pp. 600-603. 2019.
• Hadi Safari, Nazanin Sabri, Faraz Shahsavan, and Behnam Bahrak. “An Analysis of GitLab’s Users and Projects Networks.” In 2020 10th International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST), pp. 194-200. IEEE, 2020.
• Hadi Safari, Nazanin Sabri, Faraz Shahsavan, and Behnam Bahrak. “Structural Analysis of GitLab’s Users and Projects Networks.” International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Research 12, no. 2 (2020): 54-62.

Pre-prints

• Nazanin Sabri, and Mai Elsherief. “Posting Patterns of Members of Parental Subreddits.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.16193 (2025).
• Yasaman Jafari, Nazanin Sabri, and Behnam Bahrak. “Investigating the effects of Goodreads challenges on individuals reading habits.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.03932 (2020).

Poster Summaries of Some of My Work

Nazanin Sabri, Yutong Chen, Marissa Lee, Steven P. Dow, Kristen Vaccaro, and Mai Elsherief. 2025. “The Balancing Act of Social Audio Facilitators: WhenSelf-Promotion Overshadows Community Care”. To appear in CSCW 2025.

Nazanin Sabri, Anh Pham, Ishita Kakkar, and Mai ElSherief. “Inferring Mental Burnout Discourse Across Reddit Communities.” In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact, pp. 224-231. 2024.