Zaidi, Zainab (Dr) - Research

Research interests

  • Misinformation
  • Social Networking
  • Data Science
  • Wireless Networks

Publications

Recent publications

  1. Z. Zaidi, M. Ye, F. Samon, A. Jama, B. Gopalakrishnan, C. Gu, S. Karunasekera, J. Evans, Y. Kashima, “Topics in Anti-vax and Pro-vax discourse: A Yearlong Synoptic Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Tweets”, in Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), 2023;25:e45069, doi:10.2196/45069.
  2. Chenhao Gu, Z. Zaidi, Ling Luo, Shanika Karunasekera, “LIN: Latent Influence Network for Discovering Hidden Directed Influence Links on Social Media”, in AAAI ICWSM 2025
  3. I. Machanayaka, Z. Zaidi, S. Karunasekera, C. Leckie, “Using Causality to Infer Coordinated Attacks on Social Media”,  in AAAI ICWSM 2025
  4. Z.Zaidi, H. Inaltekin, J. Evans, “Separation of Control and Data Transmissions in 5G Networks may not be Beneficial”, in IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 4159-4173, July 2021.
  5. Z. R. Zaidi, V. Friderikos, F. Z. Aslam, S. Fletcher, M. Dohler, H. Aghvami, “Will SDN be part of 5G?”, in IEEE Survey and Tutorials, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 3220-3258, May 2018.

Professional associations

  • IEEE Senior Member