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Patrick Gerard

PhD student under Kristina Lerman and Emilio Ferrara. Working on making things make sense.

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📌 Updates

June 2025: DETOX @ ICWSM 2025 🎉

Invited talk at the DETOX workshop on countering social media degradation. Introduced a new modeling framework for identifying narrative enclaves and predicting cross-platform narrative spread, aimed at proactively detecting and disrupting harmful content flows across digital ecosystems.

June 2025: Stanford Security Group Talk 🎤

Discussed the challenges of modeling information diffusion in fragmented digital ecosystems and introduced a novel methodology that outperforms traditional approaches while requiring substantially less data.

May 2025: New Paper! 📝

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems

March 2025: ICWSM Paper Accepted 🎉

Fear and Loathing on the Frontline: Decoding the Language of Othering by Russia-Ukraine War Bloggers

January 2025: ICWSM Paper Accepted 🎉

Modeling Information Narrative Evolution on Telegram During the Russia-Ukraine War

September 2024: Stanford ESRG Talk 🎤

Gave a talk on narrative evolution and othering frameworks for LLM-guided community analysis.

June 2024: Interview with CNBC 🎙️

Featured for my work analyzing Truth Social and the rise of fringe platforms.

March 2023: Dataset Paper Accepted at ICWSM 🎉

Truth Social Dataset

March 2022: Paper Accepted at CIKM 🎉

Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Pandemic Forecasting