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Amira Ghenai

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Adjunct Assistant ProfessorCheriton School of Computer ScienceUniversity of Waterloo

Amira Ghenai

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Cheriton School of Computer Science

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
14 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Publications

433

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Research

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Accessibility Design for Older Adults Evaluation of Retrieval Systems Human-Computer Information Retrieval Human Computer Interaction Models of User Behavior Social Media Analysis Social Networks

Latest papers

Navigating online misinformation: Understanding older adults’ information-seeking behavior in health crises
Computers in Human Behavior Reports · 2026 · first author
Gaining Presence for Neurodiverse Students in Hybrid Classes Using WebMoti: A Case Study
Lecture notes in computer science · 2026 · senior author
Music Listening, Mental Health, and Stress: A Computational Framework for Personalized Analysis and Recommendation
ACM Transactions on Information Systems · 2026 · senior author

All 29 publications

29 publications.

Navigating online misinformation: Understanding older adults’ information-seeking behavior in health crises

Amira Ghenai, Xiaoning Wang, Karyn Moffatt

Computers in Human Behavior Reports20261 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.chbr.2026.101033

Gaining Presence for Neurodiverse Students in Hybrid Classes Using WebMoti: A Case Study

S. Asmy, H. Shiells, D. Boxer, G. Smith, D. I. Fels, A. Ghenai

Lecture notes in computer science2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-31285-3_32

Music Listening, Mental Health, and Stress: A Computational Framework for Personalized Analysis and Recommendation

Parya Abadeh, Zeinab Noorian, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Amira Ghenai

ACM Transactions on Information Systems2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1145/3797892

Synthetic Data Generation Using Llms For Hate Speech Detection In Political Posts

Tintu Thankom Koshy, Omar Ahmed, noorian, zeinab, noorian, Amira Ghenai

Journal of the Association for Information Systems2026Senior authorOpen Access

When Correction Becomes Relational Work: Responding to Misinformation in Chinese Canadian Family Group Chats

Xiaoning Wang, Megan Tan, Karyn Moffatt, Amira Ghenai

SSRN Electronic Journal2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6779492

Exploring hate speech dynamics: The emotional, linguistic, and thematic impact on social media users

Amira Ghenai, Zeinab Noorian, Hadiseh Moradisani, Parya Abadeh, Caroline A. Erentzen, Fattane Zarrinkalam

Information Processing & Management202528 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2025.104079

The Impact of Listening to Music on Stress Level for Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD: Mixed-Effect Models and Propensity Score Analysis

M. Abdalla, Parya Abadeh, Zeinab Noorian, Amira Ghenai, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Soroush Zamani Alavijeh

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1109/tcss.2025.3561073

Twitter-MusicPD: melody of minds - navigating user-level data on multiple mental health disorders and music preferences

Soroush Zamani Alavijeh, Xingwei Yang, Zeinab Noorian, Amira Ghenai, Fattane Zarrinkalam

EPJ Data Science2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00549-7

User-Centric Modeling of Online Hate Through the Lens of Psycholinguistic Patterns and Behaviors in Social Media

Zeinab Noorian, Amira Ghenai, Hadiseh Moradisani, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Soroush Zamani Alavijeh

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems202413 citations

DOI: 10.1109/tcss.2024.3359010

How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread on Twitter

Anatoliy A. Gruzd, Amira Ghenai, Philip Mai

Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences20242 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.24251/hicss.2024.300

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Amira Ghenai

Research

Latest papers

Navigating online misinformation: Understanding older adults’ information-seeking behavior in health crises

Gaining Presence for Neurodiverse Students in Hybrid Classes Using WebMoti: A Case Study

Music Listening, Mental Health, and Stress: A Computational Framework for Personalized Analysis and Recommendation

Synthetic Data Generation Using Llms For Hate Speech Detection In Political Posts

When Correction Becomes Relational Work: Responding to Misinformation in Chinese Canadian Family Group Chats

Exploring hate speech dynamics: The emotional, linguistic, and thematic impact on social media users

The Impact of Listening to Music on Stress Level for Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD: Mixed-Effect Models and Propensity Score Analysis

Twitter-MusicPD: melody of minds - navigating user-level data on multiple mental health disorders and music preferences

User-Centric Modeling of Online Hate Through the Lens of Psycholinguistic Patterns and Behaviors in Social Media

How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread on Twitter

Frequent collaborators

Karyn Moffatt

zeinab noorian

Mark Smucker

Robin Cohen

Charles Clarke

Maura Grossman

Anatoliy Gruzd

Caroline Erentzen