PUBLICATIONS

Conferences

  1. Marisa Vasconcelos, Priscila Rocha, Claudio Pinhanez: Disappearing Without a Trace: Coverage, Community, Quality, and Temporal Dynamics of Wikipedia Articles on Endangered Brazilian Indigenous Languages. In: International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’24). April 2024.

     

  2. Nicolas Rezende, Daniel Dalip, Michele Brandão, Marisa Vasconcelos: Elaboraçao de um Conjunto de Dados sobre o Registro de Patentes no Brasil. In: Dataset Showcase Workshop (DSW’23). September 2023.

     

  3. Claudio Pinhanez, Paulo Cavalin, Marisa Vasconcelos, Julio Nogima: Balancing Social Impact, Opportunities, and Ethical Constraints of Using AI in the Documentation and Vitalization of Indigenous Languages. In: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’23). August 2023.

     

  4. Marisa Vasconcelos, Priscila Rocha, Julio Nogima, Rogerio de Paula: Characterizing the Social Ties between Black and Tech Communities on Twitter. In: The Web Science Conference (WebSci’22). June 2022.

     

  5. Alexandre Maros, Jussara Almeida, Marisa Vasconcelos: A Study of Misinformation in Audio Messages Shared in WhatsApp Groups. In: Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM’21). September 2021.

     

  6. Paulo Cavalin, Victor Ribeiro, Marisa Vasconcelos, Claudio Pinhanez, Julio Nogima, Henrique Ferreira: Towards a Method to Classify Language Style for Enhancing Conversational Systems. In: The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’21). July 2021.

     

  7. Larissa Malagoli, Julia Stancioli, Carlos Ferreira, Marisa Vasconcelos, Ana Paula da Silva, Jussara Almeida: Caracterização do Debate no Twitter sobre a Vacinação contra a COVID-19 no Brasil. In: Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM’21). July 2021.

     

  8. Larissa Malagoli, Julia Stancioli, Carlos Ferreira, Marisa Vasconcelos, Ana Paula da Silva, Jussara Almeida: A Look into COVID-19 Vaccination Debate on Twitter. In: The Web Science Conference (WebSci’21). June 2021.

     

  9. Carolina Vieira, Marisa Vasconcelos: Using Facebook Ads data to Assess Gender Balance in STEM: Evidences from Brazil. In: Workshop Data Science for Social Good (DSSGW’21). April 2021.

     

  10. Maysa Macedo, Marisa Vasconcelos, Andrea Brito, Rogerio de Paula: Connecting Underrepresented Minorities and Qualified Job Positions Using Online Data. In: Reframing Diversity in AI: Representation, Inclusion and Power (RDAI’21). 2021.

     

  11. Alexandre Maros, Jussara Almeida, Fabricio Benevenuto, Marisa Vasconcelos: Analyzing the Use of Audio Messages in WhatsApp Groups. In: 29th The Web Conference (TheWebConf’20). April 2020.

     

  12. Paulo Cavalin, Marisa Vasconcelos, Marcelo Grave, Claudio Pinhanez, Victor Ribeiro: From Disjoint Sets to Parallel Data to Train Seq2Seq Models for Sentiment Transfer. In: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’20). 2020.

     

  13. Samuel Guimarães, Julio Reis, Lucas Lima, Filipe Ribeiro, Marisa Vasconcelos, Jinsun An, Haewoon Kwak, Fabricio Benevenuto: Identifying and Characterizing Alternative News Media on Facebook. In: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM’20). 2020.

     

  14. Paulo Cavalin, Marisa Vasconcelos, Marcelo Grave, Claudio Pinhanez: Creating Corpora for Seq2Seq Tone Rephrasing Using Social Media Posts. In: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’20). 2020.

     

  15. Marisa Vasconcelos, Erica Pereira, Samuel Guimarães, Manoel Ribeiro, Philipe Melo, Fabricio Benevenuto: Analyzing YouTube Videos Shared on Whatsapp in the Early COVID-19 Crisis. In: 26th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (WebMedia’20). 2020.

     

  16. Heloisa Candello, Claudio Pinhanez, Mauro Pichiliani, Marisa Vasconcelos, Haylla Do Carmo: Can Direct Address Affect User Engagement with Chatbots Embodied in Physical Spaces? In: International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI’19). August 2019.

     

  17. Marisa Vasconcelos, Jussara Almeida, Paulo Cavalin, Claudio Pinhanez: Live It Up: Analyzing Emotions and Language Use in Tweets during the Soccer World Cup Final. In: 11th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci’19). July 2019.

     

  18. Gustavo Resende, Philipe Melo, Julio Reis, Marisa Vasconcelos, Jussara Almeida, Fabricio Benevenuto: Analyzing the Spread of Textual Information in Whatsapp Groups. In: 11th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci’19). July 2019.

     

  19. Gustavo Resende, Philipe Melo, Hugo Sousa, Johnnatan Messias, Marisa Vasconcelos, Jussara Almeida, Fabrício Benevenuto: (Mis)Information Dissemination in WhatsApp: Gathering, Analyzing and Countermeasures. In: 28th The Web Conference (TheWebConf’19). May 2019.

     

  20. Heloisa Candello, Claudio Pinhanez, Mauro Pichiliani, Paulo Cavalin, Flavio Figueiredo, Marisa Vasconcelos, Haylla Do Carmo: The Effect of Audiences on the User Experience with Conversational Interfaces in Physical Spaces. In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI’19). May 2019. Honorable Mention.

     

  21. Gustavo Resende, Johnnatan Messias, Márcio Silva, Jussara Almeida, Marisa Vasconcelos, Fabricio Benevenuto: A System for Monitoring Public Political Groups in WhatsApp. In: 24th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (WebMedia’18). October 2018.

     

  22. Maira de Bayser, Claudio Pinhanez, Heloisa Candello, Mauro Pichiliani Marisa Vasconcelos, Melina Guerra, Paulo Cavalin, Renan Souza: Ravel: A MAS orchestration platform for Human-Chatbots Conversations. In: The 6th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems @AAMAS (EMAS’18). July 2018.

     

  23. Marisa Vasconcelos, Carlos Cardonha, Bernardo Gonçalves: Modeling Epistemological Principles for Bias Mitigation in AI Systems: An Illustration in Hiring Decisions. In: AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Inteligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES’18). February 2018.

     

  24. Maysa Macedo, Andrea Britto Mattos, Marisa Vasconcelos, Alexandre Martinazzo, Roseli Lopes: Identificando Influências na Escolha de uma Graduação em Exatas: um Estudo Qualitativo e Comparativo de Gênero. In: Anais do XII Women in Information Technology (WIT’18). SBC 2018. https://doi.org/10.5753/wit.2018.3377.

     

  25. Marisa Vasconcelos, Heloisa Candello, Claudio Pinhanez: Bottester: Testing Conversational Systems with Simulated Users. In: HCI in Practice Workshop co-located with 16th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC’17). October 2017. Best paper.

     

  26. Marisa Vasconcelos, Jussara Almeida, Marcos Gonçalves: Popularity Dynamics of Foursquare Micro-Reviews. In: ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN’14). October 2014.

     

  27. Marisa Vasconcelos, Jussara Almeida, Marcos Gonçalves: What Makes Your Opinion Popular? Predicting the Popularity of Micro-Reviews in Foursquare. In: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’14). March 2014.

     

  28. Felipe Moraes, Marisa Vasconcelos, Patrick Prado, Daniel Dalip, Jussara Almeida, Marcos Gonçalves: Polarity Detection of Foursquare Tips. In: International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo’13). November 2013.

     

  29. Felipe Moraes, Marisa Vasconcelos, Patrick Prado, Jussara Almeida, Marcos Gonçalves: Polarity Analysis of Micro Reviews in Foursquare (original work in Portuguese). In: Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (WebMedia’13). November 2013.

     

  30. Tatiana Pontes, Gabriel Magno, Marisa Vasconcelos, Aditi Gupta, Jussara Almeida, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Almeida Virgı́lio: Beware of What You Share: Inferring Home Location in Social Networks. In: Workshop on Privacy in Social Data (PinSoDa’12). December 2012.

     

  31. Tatiana Pontes, Marisa Vasconcelos, Jussara Almeida, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Almeida Virgı́lio: We Know Where You Live: Privacy Characterization of Foursquare Behavior. In: Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN’12). November 2012.

     

  32. Marisa Vasconcelos, Saulo Ricci, Jussara Almeida, Benevenuto Fabrı́cio, Almeida Virgı́lio: Characterization and Influence of Tips and Dones in Foursquare (original work in Portuguese). In: Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks (SBRC’12). April 2012.

     

  33. Marisa Vasconcelos, Saulo Ricci, Jussara Almeida, Benevenuto Fabrı́cio, Almeida Virgı́lio: Tips, Dones and Todos: Uncovering User Profiles in Foursquare. In: ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM’12). February 2012.

     

  34. Cristiano Costa, Vanessa Soares, Fabrício Benevenuto, Marisa Vasconcelos, Jussara Almeida, Almeida Virgı́lio, Miranda Mowbray: Dissemination of Polluted Content in Peer-to-Peer Networks (original work in Portuguese). In: Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks (SBRC’06). December 2006.

     

  35. Benevenuto Fabrı́cio, Cristiano Costa, Marisa Vasconcelos, Almeida Virgı́lio, Jussara Almeida, Miranda Mowbray: Impact of Peer Incentives on the Dissemination of Polluted Content. In: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’06). April 2006.

     

  36. Marisa Vasconcelos, Leonardo Rocha, Juliano Santos, José Ismael Jr., Leonardo da Mata, Jussara Almeida, Wagner Meira Jr., Almeida Virgı́lio: Quantitative Analysis of Strategies for Streaming Media Distribution. In: Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB’03). October 2003.

     

  37. Fernanda Franciscani, Marisa A. Vasconcelos, Rainer Couto, Antonio Loureiro: Peer-to-Peer over Ad-Hoc Networks: (Re)Configuration Algorithms. In: International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPDPS’03). April 2003.

     


Journals

  1. Michelle Reddy, Júlio Nardelli, Yuri Pereira, Leonardo Oliveira, Marisa Vasconcelos Thiago Silva, Mark Horowitz: Higher education’s influence on social networks and entrepreneurship in Brazil. Social Network Analysis and Mining. 13, 1–21 (2023).

     

  2. Samuel Guimarães, Julio Reis, Marisa Vasconcelos: Characterizing political bias and comments associated with news on Brazilian Facebook. Social Network Analysis and Mining. 11, 1869–5469 (2021).

     

  3. Marisa Vasconcelos, Jussara Almeida, Marcos Gonçalves: Predicting the Popularity of Micro-Reviews: A Foursquare Case Study. Elsevier Information Sciences. 325, 355–374 (2015).

     

  4. Fernanda Franciscani, Marisa Vasconcelos, Rainer Couto, Antonio Loureiro: (Re)configuration Algorithms for Peer-to-Peer over Ad Hoc Networks. Journal of Parallel Distributed Computing. 65, 234–245 (2005).

     


Patents

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    Carlos Cardonha, Marisa Vasconcelos, Andrea Lima, Miguel Quinones. Media Transactions Consent Management. September 2023, US Patent 11768923.

     

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    Priscilla Avegliano, Andrea Lima, Marisa Vasconcelos, Dario Oliveira. Artificial intelligence generated synthetic image data for use with machine language models. June 2023, US Patent 11687620.

     

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    Marisa Vasconcelos, Mu Qiao, Nicholas Linck, Yuya Ong, Claudio Pinhanez, Rogerio De Paula. Personalized alert generation based on information dissemination. October 2022, US Patent App. 17218297.

     

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    Nicholas Linck, Mu Qiao, Yuya Ong, Marisa Vasconcelos, Claudio Pinhanez, Rogerio De Paula. Presenting thought-provoking questions and answers in response to misinformation. August 2022, US Patent App. 17184668.

     

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    Mauro Pichiliani, Heloisa Candello, Marisa Vasconcelos, Vagner De Santana. Training chatbots for remote troubleshooting. July 2022, US Patent 11379253.

     

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    Vagner De Santana, Marisa Vasconcelos, Mauro Pichiliani, Heloisa Candello. Mediating between social networks and payed curated content producers in misinformative content mitigation. April 2022, US Patent App. 17069861.

     

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    Marisa Vasconcelos, Carlos Cardonha. Audit Machine Learning Models Against Bias. March 2022, US Patent 11263550.

     

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    Heloisa Candello, Marisa Vasconcelos, Jaione Azpiroz, Marco Netto. Support request assignment using pace of conversation. February 2022, US Patent 11252202.

     

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    Marisa Vasconcelos, Paulo Cavalin, Claudio Pinhanez, Heloisa Candello. Adapting conversational agent communications to different stylistic models. February 2022, US Patent 11238100.

     

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    Andrea Lima, Carlos Cardonha, Marisa Vasconcelos, Miguel Quinones. Adapting communications according to audience profile from social media. January 2022, US Patent 11228544.

     

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    Carlos Cardonha, Jorge Diaz, Bernardo Goncalves, Marisa Vasconcelos. System, method and computer program product for dispatching of medical emergencies and wait time control. September 2021, US Patent 1152107.

     

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    Ana Appel, Igor Oliveira, Marisa Vasconcelos, Ricardo Franco. Supply Chain Forecasting System. September 2021, US Patent 11126957.

     

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    Marisa Vasconcelos, Carlos Cardonha, Andrea Lima, Miguel Quinones. Generating Image Capture Configurations and Compositions. February 2021, US Patent 10924661.

     

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    Ana Appel, Ricardo Franco, Marisa Vasconcelos. Human steering dashboard to analyze 360-degree market view for merchants based on financial transactions. July 2020, US Patent 10614402.

     

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    Alan Braz, Heloisa Candello, Claudio Pinhanez, Marisa Vasconcelos. System, method and computer program product for assessing the capabilities of a conversation agent via black box testing. July 2020, US Patent 10726827.

     

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    Ana Appel, Heloisa Candello, Ricardo Franco, Claudio Pinhanez, Marisa Vasconcelos. System and method to recommend mitigation action using conversational agent. June 2019, US Patent App. 15/849439.

     

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    Carlos Cardonha, Bernardo Goncalves, Jorge Diaz, Marisa Vasconcelos. Data-driven Urban Interventions Based on Crowdsourcing. August 2018, US Patent App. 15/424870.

     

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    Ana Paula Appel, Heloisa Candello, Carlos Cardonha, Marisa Vasconcelos. Delivering Personalized Advertising. July 2018, US Patent App. 15/399036.

     

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    Ana Paula Appel, Ricardo Franco, Marisa Vasconcelos. Detecting Vulnerabilities in a Supply Chain. July 2018, US Patent App. 15/401222.

     


Awards/Honors

  1. 2020
    Fourth Plateau - Invention Achievement Awards in appreciation and recognition of creative contributions to IBM progress.

     

  2. 2019
    Honorable Mention on Published Paper at CHI'19.

     

  3. 2013 – 2014
    InWeb (National Institute of Science and Technology for the Web). Ph.D. Research Fellowship for support graduate studies, Brazil.

     

  4. 2012
    2nd Best Ph.D. Work at Graduate Week. Computer Science Department at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.

     

  5. 2011
    Google Women in Technology Award (Anita Borg). Google Brazil Winner, Brazil.

     

  6. 2010
    Hewlett-Packard Labs. Research Fellowship from HP-Labs in joint project with Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.

     

  7. 2009 – 2013
    FAPEMIG (Brazilian Foundation for Research Support). Ph.D. Research Fellowship for support for graduate studies, Brazil

     

  8. 2006 – 2008
    Fulbright (U.S Department of State) and CAPES (Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education). M.A. Research Scholarship support graduate studies, USA.

     

  9. 2006 - 2008
    Boston University. M.A. Tuition Fellowship support for graduate studies, USA.

     

  10. 2001 - 2003
    CAPES (Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education). M.Sc. Research Fellowship support for graduate studies, Brazil.

     

  11. 2000 – 2001
    FAPEMIG (Brazilian Foundation for Research Support) support to scientific investigation during undergraduate studies, Brazil.

     

  12. 1998 – 2000
    CNPQ (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) support to scientific investigation during undergraduate studies, Brazil.

     


Professional Service

  1. Organization
    Workshop Women in Data Science at The Web Conference (2018-2020)
    Workshop Women in Data Science at SIAM SDM (2017)

     

  2. Editorial Board
    IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society

     

  3. Program Commitee
    The Web Conference (2021-2022)
    ICWSM (2021-present)
    IEEE/ACM ASONAM (2019-2021)
    DEVIANCE Workshop @IEEE-BigData (2020)
    BAAI @EPIA (2017
    PAPi LATAM (2019)

     

  4. Journal Reviewer
    PLOS ONE (2020 - present)
    ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC) (2019 - present)
    ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) (2019)
    Elsevier Information Processing & Management (2018)

     


Talks

  1. March 2023
    Round table with undergraduate students about Opportunities and Perspectives in CS, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

     

  2. March 2022
    Misinformation Dissemination on WhatsApp Groups, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain

     

  3. October 2021
    Misinformation Dissemination on WhatsApp Groups, Saint Louis University, USA

     

  4. February 2021
    Misinformation Dissemination on WhatsApp Groups, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain

     

  5. November 2019
    Women in Technology. Invited Panelist, Education Show (LER), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

     

  6. October 2019
    Artificial Intelligence Concepts, Applications and Challenges. IBM Diversity Week, Sao Paulo, Brazil

     

  7. May 2019
    Artificial Intelligence Inclusion Challenges. Swissness, Sao Paulo, Brazil

     

  8. April 2019
    From Social Data Bias to Algorithm Discrimination. UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

     

  9. August 2017
    Big Data Applications. IBM, Sao Paulo, Brazil

     

  10. October 2016
    Women in Computer Science. UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil