Eni Mustafaraj
Lab Director
Emma Lurie
Class of 2019
Khonzoda Umarova
Class of 2020
Annabel Rothschild
Class of 2020
Jennifer Huang
Class of 2019
Yige Zhu
Class of 2021
Anna Kawakami
Class of 2021
Claire Devine
Class of 2022
Junita Sirait
Class of 2022
Mackenzie Weatherly
Class of 2022
Jessi Kim
Class of 2023
Michaella Henry
Class of 2021
Jennifer Miranda
Class of 2022
Ashley Jang
Class of 2022
Elaney Cheng
Class of 2022
Funing Yang
Class of 2022
Beatriz Paulino-Ozuna
Class of 2022
Jane Yang
Class of 2022
Mileva Van Tuyl
Class of 2021
Jun Ru Anderson
Class of 2021
Fatima Irfan
Class of 2021
Ellie Czepiel
Class of 2020
Emily Wang
Class of 2020
Anna Fernandez
Class of 2020
Daphka Alius
Class of 2019
Dorothy Sun
Class of 2019
Ngina Kariuki
Class of 2019History of Cred Lab
Summer 2017
June 1, 2017
This marks the time Wellesley Cred Lab was formally founded. Prof. Mustafaraj, Emma Lurie ’19, and Khonzoda Umarova ’20 started two research projects: (1) auditing search engine result pages (SERP) by building their own SERP observatory (2) identifying credibility signals that can help categorize websites of questionable origin or content. They submitted a proposal for an NSF CAREER grant, which was eventually accepted and funded.
September 2017 – May 2018
September 1, 2017
The NSF CAREER grant officially started in September (to coincide with Prof. Mustafaraj sabbatical). The team consisted of returning students and new students: Emma Lurie ‘19, Khonzoda Umarova ‘20, Annabel Rothschild ‘20, Yige Zhu ‘21, and Anna Kawakami ‘21 (a SERP fellow for this year). Joined by: Mileva Van Tuyl ‘21 (also a SERP fellow), Beatriz Paulino-Ozuna ’22, Ashley Yang ’22, Sarai Hertz-Velasquez ’22, Claire Devine ’22, Michaella Henry ’21, Denise Han ’21, and Elaney Cheng ‘22. The team worked on several projects including: (1) expanding the work on the credibility of online sources and the audit of search engines (2) their first…
Summer 2018
June 1, 2018
Dongchen (Jennifer) Huang ‘19, Yige Zhu ‘21, and Jun Ru Andersoon ‘21 joined Prof. Mustafaraj for the summer program. The team designed and conducted a user study about the appearance of real and fake news websites that led to the HT ‘19 paper.
September 2018 – May 2019
September 1, 2018
The NSF CAREER grant officially started in September (to coincide with Prof. Mustafaraj sabbatical). The team consisted of returning students and new students: Emma Lurie ‘19, Khonzoda Umarova ‘20, Annabel Rothschild ‘20, Yige Zhu ‘21, and Anna Kawakami ‘21 (a SERP fellow for this year). Joined by: Mileva Van Tuyl ‘21 (also a SERP fellow), Beatriz Paulino-Ozuna ’22, Ashley Yang ’22, Sarai Hertz-Velasquez ’22, Claire Devine ’22, Michaella Henry ’21, Denise Han ’21, and Elaney Cheng ‘22. The team worked on several projects including: (1) expanding the work on the credibility of online sources and the audit of search engines (2) their first paper on Top Stories at FLAIRS ‘19. (3) the work on Knowledge Panels on Google Search, with a C+J ‘19 paper and a WikiPedia paper.
Summer 2019
June 1, 2019
Five Wellesley students made up the team: Daphka Alius ‘19, Mileva Van Tuyl, ‘21, Funing Yang ‘22, Jane Yang ‘22, and Claire Devine ‘22. They worked on the following projects: (1) fact-check characterizations (2) a web literacy website (3) the Russian interference in the 2016 elections (4) Prof. Mustafaraj, Emma Lurie ‘19 and Claire Devine ‘22 co-authored a FAT* ‘20 paper.
September 2019 – May 2020
September 1, 2019
Returning lab members joined: Annabel Rothschild ‘20, Khonzoda Umarova ‘20, Yige Zhu ‘21, Anna Kawakami ‘21, Mileva van Tuyl ‘21, Beatriz Paulino-Ozuna ’22, Ashley Yang ’22, and Michaella Henry ’21. New members included: Junita Sirait ‘22 and Jennifer Miranda ‘22 (both SERP fellows), Mackenzie Weatherley ‘22, Shreya Parjan ‘21, and Celeste Tran ‘23. Several students expressed interest in shadowing the lab and they attended our weekly meetings:…
Summer 2020
June 1, 2020
Three Wellesley students, Junita Sirait ‘22, Mackenzie Weatherly ‘22, and Jessi Kim ‘23, as well as a high school student, Sophia Piper ’21 from Marblehead High School worked in summer lab. (1) Sirait worked on building an interactive website for the Top stories election data (2) Kim worked in building the two websites, including this exact one you are currently on. (3) Weatherly worked on following and reporting on misinformation news (4) Piper worked on analyzing Twitter data.
Friends of Cred Lab
Denise Han ’21, Shreya Parjan ‘21, Udita Bahaj ‘22, Sarai Hertz-Velasquez ’22, Celeste Tran ‘23, Lana Abdi ‘23, Nujuma Taha ‘23, Amy Fung ‘23, Andy Dimnaku ’21 of Wellesley HS, Sophia Piper ’21 of Marblehead HS