Rachith Aiyappa
Ph.D. Candidate specialising in graph science, large language models, and information diffusion on social media
Research Expertise
Publications
Can we trust the evaluation on ChatGPT?
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP 2023) / Jan 01, 2023
Aiyappa, R., An, J., Kwak, H., & Ahn, Y. (2023). Can we trust the evaluation on ChatGPT? Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP 2023). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.trustnlp-1.5
Identifying and characterizing superspreaders of low-credibility content on Twitter
PLOS ONE / May 22, 2024
DeVerna, M. R., Aiyappa, R., Pacheco, D., Bryden, J., & Menczer, F. (2024). Identifying and characterizing superspreaders of low-credibility content on Twitter. PLOS ONE, 19(5), e0302201. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302201
A Multi-Platform Collection of Social Media Posts about the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media / Jun 02, 2023
Aiyappa, R., DeVerna, M. R., Pote, M., Tran Truong, B., Zhao, W., Axelrod, D., Pessianzadeh, A., Kachwala, Z., Kim, M., Can Seckin, O., Kim, M., Gandhi, S., Manikonda, A., Pierri, F., Menczer, F., & Yang, K.-C. (2023). A Multi-Platform Collection of Social Media Posts about the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 17, 981–989. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22205
Emergence of simple and complex contagion dynamics from weighted belief networks
Science Advances / Apr 12, 2024
Aiyappa, R., Flammini, A., & Ahn, Y.-Y. (2024). Emergence of simple and complex contagion dynamics from weighted belief networks. Science Advances, 10(15). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh4439
The Spread of Beliefs in Partially Modularized Communities
Perspectives on Psychological Science / Nov 29, 2023
Goldstone, R. L., Dubova, M., Aiyappa, R., & Edinger, A. (2023). The Spread of Beliefs in Partially Modularized Communities. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 19(2), 404–417. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231198238
The Inexplicable Efficacy of Language Models
XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students / Mar 01, 2023
Aiyappa, R., & Kachwala, Z. (2023). The Inexplicable Efficacy of Language Models. XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, 29(3), 60–62. https://doi.org/10.1145/3589654
Education
Indiana University Bloomington
PhD, Network Science and Computer Science / July, 2025 (anticipated)
BITS Pilani, Goa Campus
Masters, Physics / August, 2019
BITS Pilani, Goa Campus
Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering / August, 2019
Experience
eBay
Applied Research NLP Intern
Fitch Group
Data Science and NLP Intern
PhD Candidate
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