Zilverling

dr.ir. M. Zangiabady (Mahboobeh)

Lecturer
EEMCS-CS-DACS
Zilverling
m.zangiabady@utwente.nl
+31534892168
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Mah Zangiabady is a lecturer in the Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS) group at the University of Twente. Her research focuses on understanding and combating online hate speech at scale, using artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect, classify, and track hateful content across large social media datasets.

She develops and applies natural language processing techniques including transformer-based models such as BERT alongside clustering and network analysis methods to uncover patterns in how hate speech spreads, evolves, and clusters around political and social topics online. Her work combines these AI-driven methods with social network analysis and graph theory to study the structure of online communities and how they influence the spread of harmful content, drawing on her broader expertise in graph analytics, routing, and network systems.

Alongside her research, Mah Zangiabady is committed to innovative, student-centered teaching, aiming to create a safe and interactive learning environment where students are encouraged to experiment, take risks, and develop creative solutions to real-world problems.

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Virtual Networks
    • Virtual Network Embedding
    • Bidirectional Encoder Representations From Transformers
    • Dashboards
    • Directed Acyclic Graph
    • Software Defined Networking
    • Software-Defined Network

  • Social Sciences

    • Logopedics

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Publications

2026

Static Scheduling of DAG Workflows on Homogeneous Parallel Platforms Using Longest Betweenness Centrality (2026)In Euro-Par 2026: Parallel Processing: 32nd European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Pisa, Italy, August 24–28, 2026, Proceedings (pp. 3-17). Springer. Damink, N., Garcia-Robledo, A. & Zangiabady, M.https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-35251-4_1Large-Scale Hate Speech Analysis with BERT and HDBSCAN: Tracking Political Influence Across 55M Reddit Posts (2026)In 2025 International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering Researches (ICECER). Zangiabady, M., Andrei, R. & Garcia-Robledo, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECER65523.2025.11401350Tracking Online Hate During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Netherlands: A Hybrid Machine Learning and Keyword-Based Analysis of Dutch Social Media (2026)In 2025 International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering Researches (ICECER). Zangiabady, M., Garcia-Robledo, A., Lotgerink, W. & Savarese, V.https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECER65523.2025.11401145Comparing gravity-based centralities across divergent network topologies: Evidence from internet AS and citation DAGs (2026)In Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Algorithms (AI2A 2025): Proceedings volume 14073. Article 1407309 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 14073). SPIE. te Poel, J., Garcia-Robledo, A. & Zangiabady, M.https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3097387

2025

Exploring the gravitational model for ranking influential nodes in directed acyclic networks (2025)Social Network Analysis and Mining, 15. Article 83. Garcia-Robledo, A., Zangiabady, M. & Sonneveld, J.https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-025-01500-4

2024

Tracer: A Tool for Race Detection in Software Defined Network Models (2024)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Caltais, G., Zangiabady, M. & Zvirbulis, E.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.23763Tracer: A Tool for Race Detection in Software Defined Network Models (2024)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 26th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, SYNASC 2024. Caltais, G., Zangiabady, M. & Zvirbulis, E.Decoding Online Hate in the United States: A BERT-CNN Analysis of 36 Million Tweets from 2020 to 2022 (2024)In 18th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2024) (pp. 329-334). IEEE. Sekhar Pandey, S., Garcia-Robledo, A. & Zangiabady, M.https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSC59802.2024.00059Enhancing Epidemic Prediction Using Simulated Annealing for Parameter Optimization in Infection Network Inference (2024)In 2024 7th International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2024) (Accepted/In press). Hoven, T., Garcia-Robledo, A. & Zangiabady, M.

2023

Dash Sylvereye: A Python Library for Dashboard-Driven Visualization of Large Street Networks (2023)IEEE Access, 11, 121142-121161. Article 10292630. Garcia-Robledo, A. & Zangiabady, M.https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3327008

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Courses academic year 2025/2026

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