OASIS Lab — Online and AI Systems’ Integrity & Safety Lab.

Our group brings together strong computational and engineering expertise to study the safety and integrity of online ecosystems. Co-founded by Homa Hosseinmardi and Amir Ghasemian.

Lab News

Apr 15, 2026Paper accepted for a talk at IC2S2! “Seeking Help, Facing Harm: Auditing TikTok’s Mental Health Recommendations.” Congrats Pooriya!
Apr 15, 2026Paper accepted for a poster presentation at IC2S2! “What Stays and What Goes: Auditing the Impact of LLM Summarization on News Partisanship.” Congrats Pavel!
Apr 14, 2026Congrats to Pooriya for receiving the Summer Research Mentorship Award!
Mar 21, 2026Congrats Pavel! Poster accepted at CHI: “What Stays and What Goes: Auditing the Impact of LLM Summarization on News Partisanship.”
Mar 21, 2026Our first OASIS Lab paper accepted at ICWSM! “Seeking Help, Facing Harm: Auditing TikTok’s Mental Health Recommendations.” Congrats Pooriya!
Feb 15, 2026“Trapped by Personalization: LLM-Assisted Recommendations and Their Hidden Impact on Human-AI Ecosystems” accepted for a Contributed Talk at NetSci 2026 in Boston (June 1-5, 2026). Homa will share our work.
Feb 1, 2026Awarded Huo Family Foundation (HFF) Grant, 2026-2029, for “Beyond Screen Time: Investigating the Influence of Social Media Content and Algorithms on Adolescent Mood Using Multimodal Longitudinal Data and Counterfactual Bots.”
Feb 1, 2026Awarded DataX Pilot Projects Grant, 2026, for “Using Therapeutic Interactions to Improve General-Purpose LLM Safety.”
Feb 1, 2026Awarded UCLA Initiative to Study Hate Grant for “The Discourse of Summaries: Ideological Drift and Identity Framing in AI-mediated News.” Congrats to Pavel!