Academic papers

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Various academic papers I co-authored while working in research labs as an undergrad at McGill University (2011—2014).

What’s in a Name? Using First Names as Features for Gender Inference in Twitter: Co-authored with Derek Ruths for Network Dynamics lab. I presented this at the AAAI Spring Symposium Series in 2013 (my slides are on Speaker Deck).
Homophily and Latent Attribute Inference: Inferring Latent Attributes of Twitter Users from Neighbors: Co-authored with Derek Ruths and Faiyaz Al Zamal for Network Dynamics lab. Poster paper at the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) in 2012.
Using Social Media to Infer Gender Composition of Commuter Populations: Co-authored with Derek Ruths and Faiyaz Al Zamal for Network Dynamics lab. Workshop paper at the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) in 2012.
Digital Document Image Retrieval Using Optical Music Recognition: Co-authored with Andrew Hankinson, John Ashley Burgoyne, Gabriel Vigliensoni, Alastair Porter, Jessica Thompson, Remi Chiu, and Ichiro Fujinaga for DDMAL lab. Presented at the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) in 2012.
Diva: A Web-Based High-Resolution Digital Document Viewer: Co-authored with Andrew Hankinson, Laurent Pugin, and Ichiro Fujinaga for DDMAL lab. Presented at the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) in 2012.
Diva.js: A Continuous Document Viewing Interface: Co-authored with Andrew Hankinson, Laurent Pugin, and Ichiro Fujinaga for DDMAL lab. Published in The Code4Lib Journal in 2011.