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
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

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

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

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

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

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