Hello. I'm Osama.
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About
My research deals with the intersection of technology and society, understanding how social mores evolve with evolving technology. My work primarily looks at how language develops in online spaces and how it is used by online communities to construct their identities.
I spent the summer of 2023 interning with Google's Knowledge Engine Team at Mountain View, hosted by Wenchao Jiang and Martin Wan.
In the summer of 2022, I interned at Google's PAIR team in Seattle and was hosted by Dan Liebling and Katherine Heller.
You can find my resume here (EN) or here (UR).
Publications
Osama Khalid, and Padmini Srinivasan. "Smells like Teen Spirit: An Exploration of Sensorial Style in Language" Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2022.[paper] [arXiv][video]Osama Khalid, Jonathan Rusert, and Padmini Srinivasan. "Suum Cuique: Studying Bias in Taboo Detection with a Community Perspective." Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-IJCNLP) 2022.[paper] [arXiv] [video]
Osama Khalid, and Padmini Srinivasan. "Style Matters! Investigating Linguistic Style in Online Communities." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Vol. 14. 2020. [paper] [arXiv] [video]
Rusert, Jonathan, Osama Khalid, Dat Hong, Zubair Shafiq, and Padmini Srinivasan. "No Place to Hide: Inadvertent Location Privacy Leaks on Twitter." Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2019, no. 4 (2019): 172-189. [paper] [arXiv]
Projects
I occasionally make things. These are some of those.2024: A webservice that tracked my whereabouts during RAGBRAI 2024. [link] [code]
Note: Because of the privacy implications, this app won't update my location after RAGBRAI 2024.
2024: Judicial arXiv is a search engine for the Supreme Court of Pakistan judgements. [link]
and the companion piece that projects the judgements into 3D space [link].
2023: National arXiv is an experimental search engine for the National Assembly Debates archives of Pakistan. (Currently covering: 1947-2022). [link]
2021: I made a little language game which involves guessing the word based on its TokiPona translation. [link]
2021: I took part in Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2021 and helped create a Language Accessibility Metric for the Worker Friendliness Index. [link]
2021: MausiqiBot: A twitter bot that posts a spatio-temporally random song every twenty-four hours.[link] [Dead!]
2021: Frequency of Letters in Urdu Words and Where they Occur: An Infographic.[link][tweet]
2020: Hobson-Jobson: An online and searchable version of the 19th Century lexicon.[link]
Teaching
Over the years, I have been involved in teaching in various capacities:2022-2023: I was a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the Center for Teaching.
March 2023: As part of my Graduate Teaching Fellowship I designed and conducted a workshop on teaching practices called Learn from your Teaching.
2020-2021: I was a recipient of the Computer Science Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
2017-2024: I have TA-ed for and taught around 18 courses in the last 8 years. You can find feedback from the instructors and the students here.
Awards and Achievements
2024: UI Graduate College Summer Fellowship.2023: UI Graduate College Post-Comp Research Fellowship.
2022: UI Graduate Teaching Fellowship.
2021: Computer Science Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
misc. writings
| 08-2024: | RAGBRAI LI: Celebrating Conquered Hills |
| [Featured here] | |
| 03-2024: | Auditing PK-79: A Mathematical Approach to Detect Vote Flipping in the 2024 Pakistan Elections |
| [Featured here, here and here] | |
| 06-2023: | An Ode to Chicken Karahi |
| 10-2022: | Punjabi Features that Urdu lacks |
social media
YouTube
GitHub
Twitter