Human-AI Systems, Machine Intelligence and Online Behavior

Shreenidhi Srinivasan, Lydia Manikonda, "Does Prompt Design Impact Quality of Data Imputation by LLMs?", arXiv 2025 (Under Submission).
Brook Zeleke, Amish Soni, Lydia Manikonda, "Human or GenAI? Characterizing the Linguistic Differences between Human-Written and LLM-Generated Text.", Workshop on Human-GenAI Interactions: Shaping the Future of Web Science, Web Science 2025.
Joseph Sebastian, Khadija Ali Vakheel, Lydia Manikonda, T. Ravichandran "Navigating Privacy and Engagement in the Digital Age.", Workshop on Human-GenAI Interactions: Shaping the Future of Web Science, Web Science 2025.
Mee Young Um, Lydia Manikonda, Doncy Eapen, Kristin Ferguson, Diane Santa Maria, Sarah Narendorf, Robin Petering, Anamika Barman-Adhikari, Hsun-Ta Hsu, "Predicting Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration among Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Seven U.S. Cities Using Interpretable Machine Learning.", Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2024.
Yuanyuan Liu, T. Ravichandran, Lydia Manikonda, "Can Emotional Cues Substitute for Sharing Privacy Compromising Personal Information: An Empirical Exploration in Medical Crowdfunding.", European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), 2024.
Joseph Sebastian, Lydia Manikonda, "Exploring the Role of Temporal Privacy in Intelligent Personal Assistans.", TREO at International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2023.
Lydia Manikonda, Dorit Nevo, Benjamin D. Horne, Clare Arrignton, Sibel Adali, "The Reasoning behind Fake News Assessments: A Linguistic Analysis.", AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (Special issue on Fake News and Deception), 14(2), 2022.
Niharika Jain, Alberto Olmo, Sailik Sengupta, Lydia Manikonda, Subbarao Kambhampati, "Imperfect ImaGANation: Implications of GANs exacerbating biases on facial data augmentation and snapchat face lenses", Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2021 [pdf]
Benjamin D. Horne, Dorit Nevo, Sibel Adali, Lydia Manikonda, and Clare Arrignton, TailoringHeuristics and Timing AI Interventions for Supporting News Veracity Assessments, Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 2020.
Brendan Cunha, Lydia Manikonda, An RNN-based Classifier to detect Misinformation in News Articles, ICWSM Data Challenge, 2020.
Niharika Jain, Alberto Olmo, Sailik Sengupta, Lydia Manikonda, Subbarao Kambhampati, "Imperfect ImaGANation: Implications of GANs Exacerbating Biases on Facial Data Augmentation and Snapchat Selfie Lenses", Preprint arXiv arXiv:2001.09528 2020 [pdf]
Lydia Manikonda, Aditya Deotale, Subbarao Kambhampati, "What's up with Privacy?: User Preferences and Privacy Concerns in Intelligent Personal Assistants ", AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society (AIES) 2018 [pdf]
Lydia Manikonda, Tathagata Chakraborti, Kartik Talamadupula, Subbarao Kambhampati, "Herding the Crowd: Using Automated Planning for Better Crowdsourced Planning", Human Computation Journal Vol 4, No 1 2017 [pdf]
Lydia Manikonda, Shirin Sohrabi, Biplav Srivastava, Kartik Talamadupula, Subbarao Kambhampati, "Extracting Incomplete Planning Action Models from Unstructured Social Media Data to Support Decision Making", Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS, 2017 [pdf]
Ece Kamar, Lydia Manikonda, "Complementing the Execution of AI Systems with Human Computation", AAAI Workshop on Crowdsourcing, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence Agents 2017 [pdf]
Lydia Manikonda, Tathagata Chakraborti, Sushovan De, Kartik Talamadupula, Subbarao Kambhampati, "AI-MIX: How a Planner Can Help Guide Humans Towards a Better Crowdsourced Plan", Proceedings of Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI), Quebec City, July 2014 [pdf] [slides]
Lydia Manikonda, Tathagata Chakraborti, Sushovan De, Kartik Talamadupula, Subbarao Kambhampati, "AI-MIX: How a Planner Can Help Guide Humans Towards a Better Crowdsourced Plan", Proceedings of the ICAPS Scheduling and Planning Applications Workshop (SPARK), Portsmouth, June 2014 [pdf] [slides]
**Winner of the "People's Choice Award" for the best demo at ICAPS 2014!
Shashi Shekhar, KwangSoo Yang, Venkata M.V. Gunturi, Lydia Manikonda, Dev Oliver, Xun Zhou, Betsy George, Sangho Kim, Jeffrey M. R. Wolff, Qingsong Lu, "Evacuation Route Planning Algorithms: A Retrospective," International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), 2012 [pdf]
Lydia Manikonda, Ashish Mangalampalli, Vikram Pudi, "UACI: Uncertain Associative Classifier for Object Class Identification", The 25th International Conference of Image and Vision Computing, Queenstown, New Zealand, November 2010 [pdf]

Social Media, Users and Societal Challenges

Yelena Mejova*, Lydia Manikonda*, "Comfort Foods and Community Connectedness: Investigating Diet Change during COVID-19 using YouTube Videos on Twitter", ICWSM, 2023 (*equal contribution).
Nay Zaw Aung Win, Lydia Manikonda, "Linguistic Analysis of User Disclosures about Smoking Addiction during COVID-19 via Reddit.", ICWSM Data Challenge, 2022.
Lydia Manikonda, Mee Young Um, Rui Fan "Shift of User Attitudes about Anti-Asian Hate on Reddit Before and During COVID-19.", WebScience, 2022.
Nur Kamarudin, Vineeth Rakesh, Ghazaleh Beigi, Lydia Manikonda, Huan Liu, "A Study of Reddit -- Users Response to Rape", ASONAM, 2018, [pdf]
Lydia Manikonda, Ghazaleh Beigi, Huan Liu, Subbarao Kambhampati, "Twitter for Sparking a Movement, Reddit for Sharing the Moment: #metoo through the Lens of Social Media", SBP-BRiMS 2018 (Also available on Preprint arXiv arXiv:1803.08022) [pdf]
Lydia Manikonda, Subbarao Kambhampati, "Tweeting AI: Perceptions of Lay vs Expert Twitterati", International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2018, [pdf]
Lydia Manikonda, Cameron Dudley, Subbarao Kambhampati, "Tweeting AI: Perceptions of AI-Tweeters (AIT) vs Expert AI-Tweeters (EAIT)", 2017, Preprint arXiv:1704.08389 [pdf]
Lydia Manikonda, Munmun De Choudhury, "Modeling and Understanding Visual Attributes of Mental Health Disclosures in Social Media", CHI 2017  [pdf]
Lydia Manikonda, Vamsi Meduri, Subbarao Kambhampati "Tweeting the Mind and Instagramming the Heart: Exploring Differentiated Content Sharing on Social Media," International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2016 [pdf]
Lydia Manikonda, Heather Pon-Barry, Subbarao Kambhampati, " Venting Weight: Analyzing the Discourse of an Online Weight Loss Forum", Proceedings of AAAI 2016 -- Workshop on World Wide Web and Population Health Intelligence 2016 [pdf]
Lydia Manikonda, Ragav Venkatesan, Subbarao Kambhampati, Baoxin Li "Trending Chic: Analyzing the Influence of Social Media on Fashion Brands," Preprint. arXiv:1512.01174 [pdf]
Lydia Manikonda, Heather Pon-Barry, Subbarao Kambhampati, "Discourse Analysis of User Forums in an Online Weight Loss Application", Proceedings of ACL Joint Workshop on Social Dynamics and Personal Attributes in Social Media, Baltimore, June 2014 [pdf] [slides]
Lydia Manikonda, Yuheng Hu, Subbarao Kambhampati, "Analyzing User Activities, Demographics, Social Network Structure and User-Generated Content on Instagram", Preprint. arXiv:1410.8099v1 2014 [pdf]
Yuheng Hu, Lydia Manikonda, Subbarao Kambhampati, "What we Instagram: A First Analysis of Instagram Photo Content and User Types", Proceedings of 8th International AAAI Conference On Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Ann Arbor, June 2014 [pdf] [Wired article]
Ashish Garg, Lydia Manikonda, Shashank Kumar, Vikrant Krishna, Shyam Boriah, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Durga Toshniwal, Christopher Potter, Steven Klooster, "A Model-Free Time Series Segmentation Approach for Land Cover Change Detection", NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU), 2011 [pdf] [slides]
Lydia Manikonda, Raghvendra Mall, Vikram Pudi, Raghunath Rao, "Mining Nutrition Survey Data", IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, Paris, France, April 2011 [pdf]

Markets, and Misc

Yufei Wu, Thilanka Munasinghe, Lydia Manikonda, Oshani Seneviratne, "Data-driven Analysis of Remote Work in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic", Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
Lydia Manikonda, Shailesh Divey, "Reddit: A Novel Online Financial Consultancy", The AAAI-20 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Unstructured Data in Financial Services, 2020.
Lydia Manikonda, Annu Tuli, Vikram Pudi, "ProMax: A Profit Maximizing Recommendation System for Market Baskets", SIGAI Workshop on Emerging Research Trends in AI, 2010 [pdf]

Patents, and Books

Patent -- "Learning personalized actionable domain models" -- US Patent App. 15/475,551, 2018.
Patent -- "Autonomous learning of actionable models from unstructured data" -- U.S. Patent App. 15/420,433, 2018.
Patent -- "Autonomous learning of actionable models from unstructured data" -- U.S. Patent App. 15/840,548, 2018.
Book Chapter -- Nur Shazwani Kamarudin, Ghazaleh Beigi, Lydia Manikonda, Huan Liu, "Social Media for Mental Health: Data, Methods, and Findings", Open Source Intelligence and Cyber Crime (Social Media Analytics), 195-220, Springer Link, 1st ed. 2020.