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Carlos Castillo

Carlos Castillo

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Computer Science
Spain
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
72
Citations
26608
World Ranking
1648
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2020 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2014 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Carlos Castillo is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and specializes in research that intersects Social Sciences and Computer Science. Their work spans predominantly within the subfields of Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Safety Research, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The focus of their research includes several main topics such as Misinformation and Its Impacts, Topic Modeling, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Public Relations and Crisis Communication, Social Media and Politics, Music and Audio Processing, and Complex Network Analysis Techniques.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Carlos Castillo include Emília Gómez, Fedor Vitiugin, Lorenzo Porcaro, Valerio Lorini, and Karl Aberer.

Their work appears regularly in a variety of academic venues, with a notable number of publications in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Carlos Castillo include:

  • "Comparing Events Coverage in Online News and Social Media: The Case of Climate Change," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Detection of Disaster-Affected Cultural Heritage Sites from Social Media Images Using Deep Learning Techniques," 2020, Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
  • "Fair Top-k Ranking with multiple protected groups," 2021, Information Processing & Management
  • "Evaluating causes of algorithmic bias in juvenile criminal recidivism," 2020, Artificial Intelligence and Law
  • "Rewiring What-to-Watch-Next Recommendations to Reduce Radicalization Pathways," 2022, Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022

They have been recognized with professional awards including the ACM Distinguished Member in 2020 and ACM Senior Member in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Information credibility on twitter

    Carlos Castillo;Marcelo Mendoza;Barbara Poblete

  • Finding high-quality content in social media

    Eugene Agichtein;Carlos Castillo;Debora Donato;Aristides Gionis

  • Twitter under crisis: can we trust what we RT?

    Marcelo Mendoza;Barbara Poblete;Carlos Castillo

  • Processing Social Media Messages in Mass Emergency: A Survey

    Muhammad Imran;Carlos Castillo;Fernando Diaz;Sarah Vieweg

  • Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries.

    Alexandra Olteanu;Carlos Castillo;Fernando Diaz;Emre Kıcıman

  • AIDR: artificial intelligence for disaster response

    Muhammad Imran;Carlos Castillo;Ji Lucas;Patrick Meier

  • What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises

    Alexandra Olteanu;Sarah Vieweg;Carlos Castillo

  • Extracting Information Nuggets from Disaster- Related Messages in Social Media

    Muhammad Imran;Shady Elbassuoni;Carlos Castillo;Fernando Diaz

  • FA*IR: A Fair Top-k Ranking Algorithm

    Meike Zehlike;Francesco Bonchi;Carlos Castillo;Sara Hajian

  • Know your neighbors: web spam detection using the web topology

    Carlos Castillo;Debora Donato;Aristides Gionis;Vanessa Murdock

  • CrisisLex: A Lexicon for Collecting and Filtering Microblogged Communications in Crises

    Alexandra Olteanu;Carlos Castillo;Fernando Diaz;Sarah Vieweg

  • Information and Influence Propagation in Social Networks

    Wei Chen;Laks V. S. Lakshmanan;Carlos Castillo

  • Predicting information credibility in time-sensitive social media

    Carlos Castillo;Marcelo Mendoza;Barbara Poblete

  • Social Network Analysis and Mining for Business Applications

    Francesco Bonchi;Carlos Castillo;Aristides Gionis;Alejandro Jaimes

  • The query-flow graph: model and applications

    Paolo Boldi;Francesco Bonchi;Carlos Castillo;Debora Donato

  • TweetCred: Real-Time Credibility Assessment of Content on Twitter

    Aditi Gupta;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru;Carlos Castillo;Patrick Meier

  • Algorithmic Bias: From Discrimination Discovery to Fairness-aware Data Mining

    Sara Hajian;Francesco Bonchi;Carlos Castillo

  • Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

    Ee-Peng Lim;Marianne Winslett;Mark Sanderson;Ada Fu

  • Online team formation in social networks

    Aris Anagnostopoulos;Luca Becchetti;Carlos Castillo;Aristides Gionis

  • Fast shortest path distance estimation in large networks

    Michalis Potamias;Francesco Bonchi;Carlos Castillo;Aristides Gionis

  • KnowyourNeighbors: WebSpamDetection usingtheWebTopology

    Carlos Castillo;Debora Donato;Aristides Gionis;Vanessa Murdock

Frequent Co-Authors

Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Ricardo Baeza-Yates Royal Institute of Technology
Francesco Bonchi
Francesco Bonchi Institute for Scientific Interchange
Aristides Gionis
Aristides Gionis Royal Institute of Technology
Fernando Diaz
Fernando Diaz Microsoft (United States)
Paolo Boldi
Paolo Boldi University of Milan
Stefano Leonardi
Stefano Leonardi Sapienza University of Rome
Katsumi Tanaka
Katsumi Tanaka Kyoto University
Adam Jatowt
Adam Jatowt University of Innsbruck
Sebastiano Vigna
Sebastiano Vigna University of Milan
Brian D. Davison
Brian D. Davison Lehigh University

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