Assistant Professor
Dept. of CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County
sanorita@umbc.edu
Research interests Core: Cognitive dissonance, Biased assimilation, Persuasion theory, Change of belief, Spatial learning, Mental Mapping Application: Social computing, Socio-political platforms, Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding, Advertising and campaign management, Cognitive mobile app
I am looking for new graduate students to join my lab. If you are interested, please contact me.
Why should I bother to break the norm?: Exploring the Prospects of Adopting Technology-Driven Solutions by Indian Shrimp Farmers
Lokesh Medarametla, Saquib Ahmend, Sanorita Dey
Computer- Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2023
Fishing for Validation: Understanding Promises and Challenges of a Private Social Media Group for COVID-19 Long-Hauler Patients
Abhinav Reddy Karra, Ranjan Jaiswal, Sanorita Dey
Computer- Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2022
It Is All About Criticism: Understanding the Effect of Social Media Discourse on Legal Crowdfunding Campaigns
Sanorita Dey, Brittany Duff, Karrie Karahalios
Computer- Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2022
Computational Understanding of Narratives: A Survey
Priyanka Ranade; Sanorita Dey, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin
IEEE Access 2022: The Multidisciplinary Open Access Journal
Re-imagining the Power of Priming and Framing Effects in the Context of Political Crowdfunding Campaigns
Sanorita Dey, Brittany Duff, Karrie Karahalios
Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference (CHI), 2022
Interpretable Explanations for Probabilistic Inference in Markov Logicitical Crowdfunding Campaigns
KM Al Farabi, S Sarkhel, S Dey, D Venugopal
IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2021
Recommendation for Video Advertisements based on Personality Traits and Companion Content
Sanorita Dey, Brittany Duff, Niyati Chhaya, Wai Fu, Vishy Swaminathan, Karrie Karahalios
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2020
VidLyz: An Interactive Approach to Assist Novice Entrepreneurs in Making Persuasive Campaign Videos
Sanorita Dey, Brittany Duff, Karrie Karahalios, Wai-Tat Fu
Computer- Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2019
Understanding the Effect of the Combination of Navigation Tools in Learning Spatial Knowledge
Sanorita Dey, Wai-Tat Fu, Karrie Karahalios
Spatial User Interaction (SUI), 2019
Top-5 paper
Effects of Socially Stigmatized Crowdfunding Campaigns in Shaping Opinions
Sanorita Dey, Karrie Karahalios, Wai-Tat Fu
Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference (CHI), 2018
Best paper: honorable mention award
Getting There and Beyond: Incidental Learning of Spatial Knowledge with Turn-by-Turn Directions and Location Updates in Navigation Interfaces
Sanorita Dey, Karrie Karahalios, Wai-Tat Fu
Spatial User Interaction (SUI), 2018
Understanding the Effects of Endorsements for Scientific Crowdfunding
Sanorita Dey, Karrie Karahalios, Wai-Tat Fu
Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference (CHI), 2017
The Art and Science of Persuasion: Not All Crowdfunding Campaign Videos Are The Same
Sanorita Dey, Brittany Duff, Karrie Karahalios, Wai-Tat Fu
Computer- Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2017
Fine-Grained Explanations using Markov Logic
Khan Mohammad Al Farabi, Somdeb Sarkhel, Sanorita Dey, Deepak Venugopal
The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD), 2019
A scalable online platform for evaluating and training visuospatial skills of engineering students
Z. Xiao, Y. Yao, C. Yen, Sanorita Dey, H. Wauck, J. Leake, B. Woodard, A. Wolters, W. Fu
The Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education, 2017
AccelPrint: Imperfections of Accelerometer Make Smartphones Trackable
Sanorita Dey, Nirupam Roy, Wenyuan Xu, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi
The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2014
Outstanding MS thesis award
Are navigation applications killing your spatial skills?
Sanorita Dey
User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2019 (Poster)
Videolyzer: An Interactive Platform for Making Videos Persuasive
Sanorita Dey
Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2017 (Doctoral Consortium)
Know your Surroundings with an Interactive Map
Sanorita Dey
Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2015 (Student Consortium)
Study the Effect of Allocentric and Egocentric Interfaces in Indoor Navigation
Sanorita Dey
HCI Consortium, 2014 (Boster)
Leveraging Imperfections of Sensors for Fingerprinting Smartphones
Sanorita Dey, Nirupam Roy, Wenyuan Xu, Srihari Nelakuditi
HotMobile, 2013 (Poster)
Best poster runner-up
Maria Pia Gratton International Fellowship, 2019
“The Maria Pia Gratton fellowship is focused on recognizing applicants who shares Pia's philosophy of life and desire to improve their multicultural experiences and education."
Top-5 paper at SUI, 2019
The top-5 highest ranked papers were invited to present at UIST 2019 in order to foster connections between the two communities.
Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2018
"The Graduate College's Dissertation Completion Fellowship helps outstanding UIUC graduate students complete the doctoral degree by providing stipend and waivers of tuition.
Best paper: Honorable mention award at CHI, 2018
"Effects of Socially Stigmatized Crowdfunding Campaigns in Shaping Opinions” won the best paper honorable mention award at CHI 2018.
Adobe Digital Marketing Research Award, 2016
Adobe Digital Marketing Research Award promotes both theoretical and empirical development of solutions to problems in marketing by understanding the use of data science.
Outstanding MS thesis award, 2014
The MS thesis was selected for the outstanding thesis award.
SPARC Graduate Fellowship Award, 2013
SPARC Graduate Fellowship Award is a merit-based award designed to ignite research and creative excellence among outstanding students.
Best poster runner-up award, 2013
The poster on smartphone fingerprinting (AccelPrint) won the second prize at the HotMobile 2013, the International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications.
18th rank in the Higher Secondary Examination, 2002
Placed 18th according to the merit list published by the Higher Secondary Board.