Curriculum Vitae
General
- Dennis Assenmacher
- h-Index: 8, Citations: 277
Academic Career
- 2021-Now
- PostDoc
GESIS - Institute for the Social Sciences, Depatment Computational Social Science, Cologne
Project: Digital Dehumanization: Measurements, Exposure and Prevalence
- 2017-2021
- Doctoral Studies (Dr.rer.pol)
University of Münster, Münster
Thesis title: Data Analytics for Harmful Online Communication in Social Media
- 2015-2017
- M.Sc., Information Systems; University of Münster
- 2011-2014
- B.Sc., Wirtschaftsinformatik; University of Münster
Participation in Research Projects
- HYBRIDS
- Hybrid Intelligence to monitor, promote and analyse transformations in good democracy practices (HORIZON)
- MODERAT!
- Reducing the moderation effort of user comments with the help of automation using text analytical methods (EFRE)
- DemoRESIL
digital - Democratic resilience in times of online-propaganda, fake news, fear- and hate speech
- Social
Bots2021 - Detection & Analysis of Social Bots in 2021
- PPP Australien 2020
- Detection and classification of malicious virtual grassroots influence campaigns (DAAD)
- Propstop
- Identifying, verifying, and stopping concealed propaganda attacks via online media (BMBF)
Teaching
Lectures
- 2017 – 2020
- Data Analytics 1 & 2
- 2017
- Data Science Module II - Data Science certificate programme at the University of Münster
Seminars
- 2020
- Comment.AI Analytics
- 2019
- Natural Language Processing in Online Media
Recent Trends in Deep Learning
- 2018
- Social Media – Bots and Analysis
Deep Learning
Statistical Methods in Retail
Scientific Engagement
- Service
- Active reviewer for several high-ranked outlets, including: Data Mining and Konwledge Discovery, Machine Learning, Neurocpumputing, Journal of Computational Social Science, International Journal of Communication and IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computing
- MISC
- Session Moderation: Abusive Language Detection and Comment Moderation within TAILOR Theme Development Workshop: AI: Mitigating Bias & Disinformation (2022)
Track Chair for HCI International 2020, Special Track: Data, Algorithms, and Humans in Digital Manipulation