Research | Shiv Jhalani

Research

Autonomous systems, forecasting, and the experiments that taught me how to reason through messy data.

Clickbait Detection on Social Platforms

Santa Clara University On-Campus ResearchJan 2024 – Jun 2025

Research assistantship exploring multi-modal topic modeling (LDA/LSA/BERTopic) and OpenAI embeddings to flag engagement-bait across two social platforms.

Collaborated with team of 2 to detect clickbait on social media through OpenAI APIs & topic modeling algorithms like LDA
Utilized OpenAI APIs to summarize text columns, transform into vectors using sentenceTransformers library & employ cosine similarity to quantify correlation between the title & transcripts on two different datasets of a total of over 7700 rows
Co-authored research paper detailing significant findings, presented & published at the 2024 IISA conference

OpenAILDANLPResearch

IISA 2024 publication

Online Hate Speech Spreader Detection

Santa Clara University On-Campus ResearchOct 2021 – Jan 2024

Led a modified PageRank study that flags high-influence hate speech accounts on social networks.

Led team of 3 to detect & flag hate speech spreaders on online social networks using Python & libraries like sklearn
Modified Google’s PageRank algorithm to implement graph-based model using adjacency matrices to calculate user influence & measure hate speech spread within user networks, enabling data & network analysis on pre-trained machine learning models
Co-authored research paper detailing significant findings, presented & published at the 2023 International DSML conference

PythonGraph MLSklearnResearch

DSML 2023 paper