Publications:

  1. N. Barragan (Grad. Student), A. Batista (Grad. Student), D. L. Hall, Y. N. Silva.
    Social identity, social media use, and mental health in adults: Investigating the mediating role of cyberbullying experiences and the moderating effects of gender and age.
    Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2024 (17 pages).
    [Download PDF (Coming soon)]

  2. M. Sandoval (Grad. Student), M. Abuhamad (Grad. Student), P. Furman (Undergrad. Student), M. Nazari (Grad. Student), D. Hall, Y. N. Silva.
    Identifying Cyberbullying Roles in Social Media.
    The 2024 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Calabria, Italy, 2024 (multidisciplinary track, 15 pages).
    [Download PDF (Coming soon)]

  3. A. Tahir (Grad. Student), L. Cheng, M. Sandoval (Grad. Student), Y. N. Silva, D. Hall, H. Liu.
    Evaluating LLMs Capabilities Towards Understanding Social Dynamics.
    The 2024 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Calabria, Italy, 2024 (multidisciplinary track, 16 pages).
    [Download PDF (Coming soon)]

  4. M. Arslan (Grad. Student), M. Sandoval (Grad. Student), M. Abuhamad, D. Hall, Y. N. Silva
    Detecting LGBTQ+ Instances of Cyberbullying.
    The International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS), Pittsburg PA, USA (online proceedings, 10 pages).
    [Download PDF (Coming soon)]

  5. B. Wheeler (Grad. Student), M. Purohit (Grad. Student), P. Furman (Undergrad. Student), S. Jung (Undergrad. Student), M. C. Nardini Barioni, D. L. Hall, Y. N. Silva.
    Global Prevalence Patterns of Anti-Asian Prejudice on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
    Lecture Notes in Social Networks (LNSN), 2024 (16 pages).
    [Download PDF (Coming soon)]

  6. M. Juarez (Undergrad. Student), N. Barragan (Grad. Student), K. Thiruvathukal, D. L. Hall, , Y. N. Silva.
    ActionPoint: An App to Combat Cyberbullying Via the Strengthening of Parent-Teen Relationships.
    The IEEE World Forum on Public Safety Technology (WF-PST), Washington DC, USA, 2024 (5 pages).
    [Download PDF]

  7. B. Wheeler (Grad. Student), K. Baumel (Grad. Student), D. L. Hall, , Y. N. Silva.
    U.S. parents’ intentions to use anti-bullying apps: Insights from a comprehensive model.
    Heliyon, 9, 9, pp e19630, 2023 (14 pages).
    [Download PDF] [ScienceDirect Link]

  8. B. Wheeler (Grad. Student), S. Jung (Undergrad. Student), D. L. Hall, M. Purohit (Grad. Student), Y. N. Silva.
    An Analysis of Temporal Trends in Anti-Asian Hate and Counter-Hate on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
    Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 26, 7, pp 535-545, 2023 (11 pages).
    [Download PDF]

  9. B. Wheeler (Grad. Student), S. Jung (Undergrad. Student), M. C. Nardini Barioni, M. Purohit (Grad. Student), D. L. Hall, Y. N. Silva.
    #WashTheHate: Understanding the Prevalence of Anti-Asian Prejudice on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
    The 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Istanbul, Turkey, 2022 (8 pages). Best Paper Award (Multidisciplinary Track).
    [Download PDF]

  10. L. Cheng (Grad. Student), A. Mosallanezhad (Grad. Student), Y. N. Silva, D. Hall, H. Liu.
    Bias Mitigation for Toxicity Detection via Sequential Decisions.
    The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Madrid, Spain, 2022 (10 pages, acceptance rate: 20%).
    [Download PDF] [Source Code and Data]

  11. M. Hamlett (Grad. Student), G. Powell (Undergrad. Student), Y. N. Silva, D. L. Hall.
    A Labeled Dataset for Investigating Cyberbullying Content Patterns in Instagram.
         The 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2022 (7 pages).
    [Download PDF] [Dataset]

  12. D. L. Hall, Y. N. Silva, B. Wheeler (ASU Grad. Student), L. Cheng (ASU Grad. Student), K. Baumel (ASU Grad. Student).
    Harnessing the Power of Interdisciplinary Research with Psychology-Informed Cyberbullying Detection Models.
    International Journal of Bullying Prevention (IJBP), 2022 (8 pages).
    [Springer Link] [Download PDF]

  13. K. Schodt (Graduate Student), S. Quiroz (ASU Graduate Student), B. Wheeler (ASU Graduate Student) , D. L. Hall, Y. N. Silva.
    Cyberbullying and Mental Health in Adults: The Moderating Role of Social Media Use and Gender.
    Frontiers in Psychiatry (Public Mental Health section), 12, Article: 674298, 2021, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.674298 (14 pages). Impact factor: 3.532 (2017 Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports).
    [FrontiersIn Link (Open Access)] [Download PDF]

  14. L. Cheng (ASU Graduate Student), A. Mosallanezhad (ASU Graduate Student), Y. N. Silva, D. Hall, H. Liu.
    Mitigating Bias in Session-based Cyberbullying Detection: A Non-Compromising Approach.
    The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP), pages 2158–2168, 2021 (11 pages, acceptance rate: 21.3%).
    [Download PDF].

  15. L. Cheng (ASU Graduate Student), R. Guo (ASU Graduate Student), Y. N. Silva, D. Hall, H. Liu.
    Modeling Temporal Patterns of Cyberbullying with Hierarchical Attention Network.
    ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science, 2, 2, Article 8, pp 1-23, 2021, DOI: 10.1145/3441141 (23 pages).
    [Download PDF].

  16. L. Cheng (ASU Graduate Student), Y. N. Silva, D. Hall, H. Liu.
    Session-based Cyberbullying Detection: Problems and Challenges.
    IEEE Internet Computing 25, 2, pp 66-72, 2021, DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2020.3032930 (7 pages). Impact factor:4.23 (2019 Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports).
    [Download PDF].

  17. L. Cheng (ASU Graduate Student), K. Shu (ASU Graduate Student), S. Wu (Graduate Student), Y. N. Silva, D. Hall, H. Liu.
    Unsupervised Cyberbullying Detection via Time-Informed Gaussian Mixture Model.
    The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'20), 2020 (10 pages, acceptance rate: 21%).
    [Download PDF]. [Source Code in GitHub].

  18. A. Gupta (ASU Undergraduate Student), W. Yang (ASU Undergraduate Student), D. Sivakumar (ASU Undergraduate Student), Y. N. Silva, D. L. Hall, M. C. Nardini Barioni (Visiting Scholar).
    Temporal Properties of Cyberbullying on Instagram.
    The 5th Workshop on Computational Methods in Online Misbehavior (CyberSafety'20), Taipei, Taiwan, 2020. Best Paper Award. In Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2020 (WWW'20), 576–583, DOI: 10.1145/3366424.3385771 (8 pages, acceptance rate: 33%).
    [Download PDF].

  19. L. Cheng (ASU Graduate Student), J. Li (ASU Graduate Student), Y. N. Silva, D. Hall, H. Liu.
    PI-Bully: Personalized Cyberbullying Detection with Peer Influence.
    The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Macao, China, 2019 (7 pages, acceptance rate: 17.9%).
    [Download PDF].

  20. L. Cheng (ASU Graduate Student), R. Guo (ASU Graduate Student), Y. N. Silva, D. Hall, H. Liu.
    Hierarchical Attention Networks for Cyberbullying Detection on the Instagram Social Network.
    The SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Alberta, Canada, 2019 (9 pages, acceptance rate: 22.7%). This paper was highlighted in a SIAM press release.
    [Download PDF].

  21. L. Cheng (ASU Graduate Student), J. Li (ASU Graduate Student), Y. N. Silva, D. Hall, H. Liu.
    XBully: Cyberbullying Detection within a Multi-Modal Context.
    The 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Melbourne, Australia, 2019 (9 pages, acceptance rate: 16%).
    [Download PDF].

  22. L. Cheng (ASU Graduate Student), Y. N. Silva, D. Hall, H. Liu.
    Personalized Learning for Cyberbullying Detection.
    The SBP-BRiMS Doctoral Consortium (Doctoral Consortium of the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation), Washington DC, USA, 2018.
    [Download PDF].

  23. Y. N. Silva, D. Hall, C. Rich (ASU Undergraduate Student).
    BullyBlocker: Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach to Identify Cyberbullying.
    Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 8, 1, 2018, DOI: 10.1007/s13278-018-0496-z (15 pages). Impact: 1.216 (Source Normalized Impact per Paper - 2016, Springer).
    [Download PDF].

  24. Y. N. Silva, C. Rich (ASU Undergraduate Student), J. Chon, L. M. Tsosie.
    BullyBlocker: An App to Identify Cyberbullying in Facebook.
    The 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016.
    [Download PDF]

  25. Y. N. Silva, C. Rich (ASU Undergraduate Student), D. Hall.
    BullyBlocker: Towards the Identification of Cyberbullying in Social Networking Sites.
    The 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016.
    [Download PDF]

  26. Y. N. Silva, L. M. Tsosie (ASU Undergraduate Student).
    Facebully: Towards the identification of cyberbullying in facebook.
    Abstract prepared for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, Minneapolis, USA, 2013.
    [Download PDF].

Patents:

  1. L. Cheng, K. Shu, S. Wu, Y. N. Silva, D. Hall, H. Liu. Systems and Methods for Unsupervised Cyberbullying Detection via Time-Informed Gaussian Mixture Model. U.S. Patent 11,916,866, issued 02/27/2024.

Symposium Talks:

  1. Batista, A., Sarraf, M. J., Lenart, K., Gilmore, E., Hamlett, M., Kilby, R., Silva, Y., & Hall, D. A Mixed Methods Investigation of Social Media Use and Perceptions of Online Toxicity Among LGBTQ+ Young Adults. The 27th Annual International CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference (CYPSY27), Tempe AZ, USA, September 2024.

  2. Batista, A., Sarraf, M. J., Lenart, K., Gilmore, E., Hamlett, M., Kilby, R., Silva, Y., & Hall, D. A mixed methods investigation of social media use and perceptions of online toxicity among LGBTQ+ young adults. Symposium talk at the 2024 Resilience in Social Environments (RISE) Conference, Tempe, AZ, April 2024.

  3. Wheeler, B., Baumel, K., Liu, X., Quiroz, S., Hall, D., & Silva, Y. It takes a village: Age and desire for social support predict parents’ anti-bullying app use. Symposium talk at the 2020 Western Psychological Association Conference, October 2020.

  4. Baumel, K., Wheeler, B., Liu, X., Quiroz, S., Hall, D., & Silva, Y. Child’s bullying history predicts parents’ intentions to use anti-bullying apps. Symposium talk at the 2020 Western Psychological Association Conference, October 2020.

  5. Liu, X., Quiroz, S., Hall, D., & Silva, Y. Temporal shifts in the nature and study of cyberbullying on social media: A meta-analytic investigation. Symposium talk at the 2020 Western Psychological Association Conference, October 2020.

Posters:

  1. M. Juarez, N. Barragan, D. Hall, G. Thiruvathukal, Y. Silva. ActionPoint: An App to Combat Cyberbullying by Strengthening Parent-Teen Relationships.Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES), Loyola University Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2024.
    [Download PDF]

     

  2. M. Sandoval, P. Furman, M. Abuhamad, M. Nazari, J. Zhang, D. Hall, Y. Silva. Cyberbullying Role Detection Using LLMs.The Graduate School's 17th Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium, LUC, 2024.
    [Download PDF]

     

  3. A. Batista, MJ Sarraf, K. Lenart, E. Gilmore, M. Hamlett, Y. N. Silva, D. Hall. A Mixed Methods Investigation of Social Media Use and Perceptions of Online Toxicity Among LGBTQ+ Young Adults. The Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality & Social Psychology (SPSP), 2024.
    [Download PDF]

     

  4. M. Purohit, B. Wheeler, P. Furman, S. Jung, D. L. Hall, M. Barioni, Y. N. Silva. Global Prevalence Patterns of Anti-Asian Prejudice on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic.The Graduate School's 16th Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium, Loyola University Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2023. Outstanding Research Poster Award.
    [Download PDF]

     

  5. M. Juarez, S. Jung, D. L. Hall, Y. N. Silva. ActionPoint App: Implementing an App to Combat Cyberbullying Through the Strengthening of Parent-Teen Relationships.Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES), Loyola University Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2023.
    [Download PDF]

     

  6. P. Furman, D. L. Hall, Y. N. Silva. Identifying Participant Roles in Cyberbullying Through Hierarchical Attention Networks.Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium (URES), Loyola University Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2023.
    [Download PDF]

     

  7. H. Li, D. Hall, Y. N. Silva. Individual difference predictors of different types of cyberbystander behavior. The Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality & Social Psychology (SPSP), Psychology of Media & Technology Preconference, 2023.
    [Download PDF]

     

  8. N. Barrigan, A. Geow, D. Hall, Y. N. Silva. Social media blues: An exploratory investigation of the variations in social media use motives and mental health across platforms. ASU Resilience in Social Environments (RISE) Conference, Arizona, USA, 2023.
    [Download PDF]

     

  9. H. Li, D. L. Hall, Y. N. Silva. Predictors of Cyberbystander Behavior in Cyberbullying. ASU Institute for Social Science Research Poster Contest. Arizona, USA, 2023.

  10. N. Barragan, A. Geow, D. L. Hall, Y. N. Silva. Are Instagram users more anxious? An investigation of between-platform differences in mental health and social media use motives.
          i. ASU Institute for Social Science Research Poster Contest. Arizona, USA, 2023.
          ii. International Association for Relationships Research (IARR) Mini Conference, Arizona, USA, 2023.

  11. M. Lorenz, D. Foglesong, V. Garcia, G. Artiglio, Y. Silva, D. Hall. ActionPoint: Implementing an App to Combat Cyberbullying Through the Strengthening of Parent-Teen Relationships. New College Undergraduate Inquiry and Research Experiences (NCUIRE), Arizona State University, 2021. New College Undergraduate Inquiry and Research Experiences Symposium, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA, 2021.
    [Download PDF]

     

  12. V. Garcia, S. Jung, G. Powell, Y. Silva, D. Hall, M. C. Nardini Barioni. Investigating Patterns of Anti-Asian Racism on Twitter During COVID-19. New College Undergraduate Inquiry and Research Experiences (NCUIRE), Arizona State University, 2021. New College Undergraduate Inquiry and Research Experiences Symposium, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA, 2021.
    [Download PDF]

     

  13. J. Hudson, V. Garcia, B. Wheeler, M. C. Nardini Barioni, Y. Silva, D. Hall. Asian Prejudice on Twitter during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), Arizona State University, 2021. Institute for Social Science Research, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA, 2021.
    [Download PDF]

     

  14. B. Wheeler*, K. Baumel*, D. Hall, Y. Silva. Understanding Parents' Intentions to Use Anti-Bullying Apps: An Interdisciplinary Approach. The Annual Meeting of the society for Personality & Social Psychology (SPSP), 2021.

  15. T. Strom, J. Spokes, N. Alejandro, Y. N. Silva, D. Hall. ActionPoint: Action-driven App to Strengthen Parent-Teen Relationships to Combat Cyberbullying. Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects Symposium, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA, 2019.
    [Download PDF]

     

  16. L. Cheng, J. Li, Y. N. Silva, D. Hall, H. Liu Xbully: Cyberbullying Detection within a Multi-Modal Context. The 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Melbourne, Australia, 2019.
    [Download PDF]

     

  17. K. Schodt, C. Shao, D. Hall, & Y. N. Silva. How Much is too Much?: The Moderating Role of Social Media Use in the Relation between Psychological Risk Factors and Cyberbullying Victimization and Perpetration.
          i. ASU's Institute for Social Science Research Graduate Research Competition, AZ, 2019.
          ii. Society for Personality & Social Psychology (SPSP) Conference in Portland, OR, USA, 2019.
    [Download PDF]

     

  18. W. Yang, D. Prakash Sivakumar, L. Cheng, K. Schodt, C. Shao, D. Hall, & Y. N. Silva. An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Temporal Aspects of Cyberbullying on Instagram. Society for Personality & Social Psychology (SPSP) Conference in Portland, OR, USA, 2019.
    [Download PDF]

     

  19. L. Jiang, A. Trow, V. Delgadillo, C. Sanchez, L. Cheng, Y. N. Silva, D. Hall. An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Temporal Aspects of Cyberbullying. The Western Psychological Association (WPA) Convention, Portland, OR, USA, 2018.
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  20. A. Trow, L. Jiang, L. Cheng, C. Sanchez, V. Delgadillo, D. Hall, Y. N. Silva. BullyBlocker: Detecting Cyberbullying Victimization Risk through an Interdisciplinary Identification Model. The Western Psychological Association (WPA) Convention, Portland, OR, USA, 2018.
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  21. Y. N. Silva, D. L. Hall, R. Conway, T. Strom, J. Spokes, C. Sanchez, V. Delgadillo, T. Schenk. Evaluating a Model to Predict Cyberbullying in Social Networks. Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects Symposium, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA, 2018.
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  22. Y. N. Silva, C. Brown, L. Garcia, B. Sawkins. Designing and Implementing a Model to Identify Cyberbullying in Facebook.
           i. Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects Symposium, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA, 2017.
          ii. Global Security PLuS Symposium, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2017.
    [Download PDF]

    BullyBlocker 2017 Poster BullyBlocker 2017 Poster

  23. Y. N. Silva, C. Rich, J. Chon, L. M. Tsosie. BullyBlocker: Building an App to Identify Cyberbullying in Facebook. The 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016.
    [Download PDF]

    GHC 2013 Poster GHC 2013 Figure

  24. Y. N. Silva, C. Rich, D. Hall. BullyBlocker: Towards the Identification of Cyberbullying in Social Networking Sites. The 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016.
    [Download PDF]

    GHC 2013 Poster GHC 2013 Figure

  25. Y. N. Silva, C. Rich, J. Chon, G. Hunter. BullyBlocker: Building an App to Identify Cyberbullying in Facebook. [Download PDF]. New College’s Undergraduate Student Research and Creative Projects Expo, Arizona, USA, 2015.
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    GHC 2013 Poster GHC 2013 Figure

  26. Y. N. Silva, L. M. Tsosie (ASU Undergraduate Student). Facebully: Identifying cyberbullying in facebook. 2013 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, Minneapolis, USA, 2013.
    [Download PDF]

    GHC 2013 Poster GHC 2013 Figure

  27. Y. N. Silva, L. M. Tsosie (ASU Undergraduate Student). Facebully: Identifying cyberbullying in facebook.
           i. New College's Undergraduate Student Research and Creative Projects Expo, Glendale, USA, 2013.
          ii. MGE@MSA/WAESO Arizona 11th Annual Student Research Conference , Tempe, USA, 2013.
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    2013 Poster 2013 Figure