University of Maryland Computational Journalism Lab University of Maryland Computational Journalism Lab

People

The lab

Naeemul Hassan

Director

Naeemul Hassan

Associate Professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism and College of Information
University of Maryland, College Park

Naeemul Hassan founded the Computational Journalism Lab in 2019. The lab connects computing and journalism to study how information is produced, shared and understood, with work spanning misinformation, tools for journalists, media framing, health communication and AI for news. Recognized with the University of Maryland's Exemplary Researcher Award in 2023.

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Current members

  • Fuad Al Abir

    Fuad Al Abir

    Ph.D. Student · since Fall 2026

Ph.D. alumni

  • Md Main Uddin Rony

    Md Main Uddin Rony

    Ph.D., College of Information, May 2025 · 10 papers with the lab

    First positionAssistant Professor of Computer Science, Bowling Green State University

    When News Headlines Go Wrong: An In-depth Analysis and AI-driven Intervention of Misleading News Headlines

    WebsiteLinkedIn

  • Mohammad Ali

    Mohammad Ali

    Ph.D., College of Information, March 2025 · 3 papers with the lab

    First positionAssistant Professor, University of North Dakota

    Computational Framing Analysis: Proposing and Applying an Unsupervised Entity-Centric Semantic Relations Approach

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  • Yoo Yeon (Sophie) Sung

    Yoo Yeon (Sophie) Sung

    Ph.D., College of Information, August 2025 · 1 paper with the lab

    First positionApplied Scientist, Hippocratic AI

    Creating and Evaluating Human-grounded AI Tools for Challenging and Trustworthy Text

    LinkedIn

  • Md Mahfuzul Haque

    Md Mahfuzul Haque

    Ph.D., Philip Merrill College of Journalism · 5 papers with the lab

    Website

Master's and undergraduate alumni

  • Saransh Grover

    Saransh Grover

    Master's student, College of Information, 2022–2023

    PAIRing User-Centered Design with Crowdsourcing to Combat Misinformation on TikTok

  • Mayukha Kindi

    Undergraduate researcher, 2022–2023 · 1 paper with the lab

    First positionCapital One

    Question-answering chatbots for online news (CHI 2024)

  • Farhana Uddin

    Undergraduate researcher, 2022–2023

    BaitBuster 2.0: Keeping Users Away From Clickbait (NSF)