Dr.
Eni
Mustafaraj
United States
Wellesley College
Eni Mustafaraj is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts (USA), which she joined in 2008. Dr. Mustafaraj received her PhD in Computer Science from the Philipps University of Marbug in Germany. Prior to that she received a M.Eng. from the Polytechnic Unviersity of Tirana in Albania. Since 2008, she has been studying how web platforms (e.g., Google, Twitter, or Wikipedia) can be manipulated by different actors in ways that are damaging to our democracies. Her co-authored paper, "From Obscurity to Prominence in Minutes: Political Speech and Real-Time Search", which won the Best Paper award at the 2nd International Web Science Conference in 2010, contains the first ever documented use of Twitter bots to attack a political candidate during an election. She uses auditing methods to observe the health of the online information envieronment, especially of platforms such as Google and Wikipedia. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER grant for studying online credibility on the Web, and another NSF grant from the program on Ethical Responsible Research, to study how to incorporate ethics of technology in the undergraduate curriculum. She serves in the advisory board of Carnegie's Partnership for Countering Influence Operations.