Publications

A selected collection of my research work. Please visit my Google Scholar profile for a complete list of publications.

Beyond Truth Discovery: A Two-Stage Framework to Assess the Severity of False Claim during Disasters

Beyond Truth Discovery: A Two-Stage Framework to Assess the Severity of False Claim during Disasters

Ruichen Yao, Tejna Dasari, Gulshat Baispay, Aizhan Zaurbek, Yifan Liu, Yaokun Liu, Zelin Li, Dong Wang

Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Human-AI Complementarity and Alignment (HCOMP 2026) 2026

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MASH: A Multiplatform and Multimodal Annotated Dataset for Societal Impact of Hurricane

MASH: A Multiplatform and Multimodal Annotated Dataset for Societal Impact of Hurricane

Ruichen Yao, Aslanbek Murzakhmetov, Raaghav Pillai, Aliya Maussymbayeva, Zelin Li, Yifan Liu, Yaokun Liu, Lanyu Shang, Yang Zhang, Na Wei, others

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 2026

Best Dataset Paper Award

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DisImpact: Quantifying the Physi-Social Impact of Natural Disasters Through Social Media

DisImpact: Quantifying the Physi-Social Impact of Natural Disasters Through Social Media

Ruichen Yao, Tejna Dasari, Xuanyu Meng, Elliot Cao, Zelin Li, Yifan Liu, Yaokun Liu, Lanyu Shang, Dong Wang

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 2026

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Modality interactive mixture-of-experts for fake news detection

Modality interactive mixture-of-experts for fake news detection

Yifan Liu, Yaokun Liu, Zelin Li, Ruichen Yao, Yang Zhang, Dong Wang

Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025

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Component-Based Fairness in Face Attribute Classification with Bayesian Network-informed Meta Learning

Component-Based Fairness in Face Attribute Classification with Bayesian Network-informed Meta Learning

Yifan Liu, Ruichen Yao, Yaokun Liu, Ruohan Zong, Zelin Li, Yang Zhang, Dong Wang

Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2025

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Improving Fairness in Image Classification via Sketching

Improving Fairness in Image Classification via Sketching

Ruichen Yao, Ziteng Cui, Xiaoxiao Li, Lin Gu

Workshop on Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Machine Learning, NeurIPS 2022

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