Research Projects → Fani's Lab! → https://github.com/fani-lab
Teaching Projects → Here → https://github.com/hosseinfani
Hossein Fani (حسين فاني), he/him, born in Tehran, Iran, 1983, is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Windsor. He has been the team lead in NSERC Industrial Research Chair on Social Media Analytics and Postdoc Research Fellow at LS3, Toronto Metropolitan University. He works in the broad area of Social Information Retrieval (Social IR) with special focus on temporal analysis. His research concerns user community detection, user interest modelling, information retrieval, text mining, and machine learning. Hossein publishes in venues such as CIKM and ECIR and premier international journals, including Elsevier's IP&M, ACM's TOIS, and Wiley's JASIST. His work has resulted in three patents with USPTO including US10,885,131, US11,768,522, and US12,067,625. He is also a PC member at WSDM, KDD, ACL, NAACL, SIGIR, CIKM, and ECIR.
Hossein believes in Open Access principles. He applies a range of practices through which the his course and research material will be accessible online in a public repo with reduced and/or no copyright, free of cost or other access barriers for the purpose of publicly peer review and reuse.
Hossein launched Fani's Lab! in 2020 at the School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, with generous support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Fani's Lab! is located at 3146 Erie Hall, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Ave., Windsor, ON., N9B3P4, Canada, (519) 253-3000 Ext: 3743.
Hossein is grateful to his partners NSERC, Mitacs, and Press'nXPress, who provide solid in-kind and financial support for his research work.