About Me
Hi! I am a PhD student at the University of Michigan School of Information, advised by Daniel Romero and Ceren Budak. Broadly, my research lies at the intersection of computational social science and human-computer interaction. In particular, I am interested in understanding the impacts of large language models on individuals and online social interactions.
Before my PhD, I was a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at King Saud University.
Education
- Ph.D. in Information, University of Michigan, 2026–present
- M.S. in Computer Science, University of California, San Diego, 2025
- B.S. in Computer Science, King Saud University, 2020
Publications
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Understanding the Structure of Toxic Conversations on Reddit
Abeer Alessa, Uliyaah Dionisio, Rona Darabi, Deepak Kumar
ICWSM, 2027 (to appear) -
Quantifying Cognitive Bias Induction in LLM-Generated Content
Abeer Alessa, Param Somane, Akshaya Thenkarai Lakshminarasimhan, Julian Skirzynski, Julian McAuley, Jessica Maria Echterhoff
IJCNLP-AACL, 2025
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Cognitive Bias in Decision-Making with LLMs
Jessica Maria Echterhoff, Yao Liu, Abeer Alessa, Julian McAuley, Zexue He
Findings of EMNLP, 2024
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Aswat: Arabic Audio Dataset for Automatic Speech Recognition Using Speech-Representation Learning
Lamya Alkanhal, Abeer Alessa, Elaf Almahmoud, Rana Alaqil
ArabicNLP, 2023
[PDF]