Abdullah is a PhD candidate in network science at the Central European University and holds a master’s degree in engineering. He is primarily interested in the real-world use of Data Analytics, including quantification, text mining, and natural language processing. Currently, he is researching and testing social and political bots and how they interact with humans as part of an ecosystem. He is also exploring computational propaganda, the impact of language models, and digital extremism networks.
Publications
Automating Terror: The Role and Impact of Telegram Bots in the Islamic State’s Online Ecosystem
Decoding Hate: Using Experimental Text Analysis to Classify Terrorist Content
Blog posts by or about Abdullah in What's Up at DNDS:
Design Patterns of Social Bots
Qualification
MSc, Biomedical Engineering, Fatih University
BA, Health Science, Al-baath University
Thesis
The Ecosystem of Humans and Bots in Online Social Networks