DI Dr. Elaheh Momeni-Ortner

Senior Lecturer/Researcher

Contact

+43 664 889 609 43elaheh.momeni-ortner@technikum-wien.at

Research Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Predictive Maintenance, and Natural Language Processing

Higher Education

  • 2010-2014 Doctor of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Faculty of Computer Science
  • 2007 – 2009 Master of Science, Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science

Appointments & Positions

  • From 2022 University of Applied Science Technikum Wien, Austria, Vienna, Senior Lecturer/ Researcher
  • 2016 – 2022 University of Vienna,/ Faculty Research Associate
  • From 2015 eMentalist GmbH, Austria, Vienna, CTO and Head of Research Labs

Selected Grants, Fellowships and Awards

  • 2016 Academia plus Business Fund for funding eMentalist, 2016, the program provides support for scientists to turn a good idea into a viable business (AplusB 2016)
  • 2015 Doctorate Award of University of Vienna for PhD dissertation (Doc Award 2015)
  • 2015 1st prize Young Innovators Professional Award for PhD dissertation (Austrian Platform for Innovation Management 2015)

Complete Publication List

Top 10 Selected Publications

  1. Elaheh Momeni, Shanika Karunasekera, Palash Goyal, Kristina Lerman, Modeling Evolution of Topics in Large-scale Temporal Text Corpora”, International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2018), Stanford, USA, https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.15068
  2. Elaheh Momeni, Constantin Fraenkel, Patrick Kiss, Andreas Burgmann, ESG Tracker: Unbiased and Explainable ESG Profile from Real-time Data, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 2021, 15(1),1094-1096. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18137
  3. Reza Rawassizadeh, Elaheh Momeni, Chelsea Dobbins, Joobin Gharibshah, Michael Pazzani, Scalable Daily Human Behavioral Pattern Mining from Multivariate Temporal Data, IEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 2016, DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2016.2592527
  4. Chelsea Dobbins, Reza Rawassizadeh, Elaheh Momeni, Detecting physical activity within lifelogs towards preventing obesity and aiding ambient assisted living, Neurocomputing 2017/2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2016.02.088
  5. Reza Rawassizadeh Yanglei Gan, Tianyi Wang, Alireza Javaheri, Elaheh Momeni, Milad Dehghani, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, 11 Years with Wearables: Quantitative Analysis of Social Media, Academia, News Agencies, and,Lead User Community from 2009-2020 on Wearable Technologies, Proceedings of the 5th ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies https://doi.org/10.1145/3448096
  6. Elaheh Momeni, Claire Cardie, and Nick Diakopoulos, A Survey on Assessment and Ranking Methodologies for User-Generated Content on Web, ACM Computing Surveys Journal (CSUR 2015), https://doi.org/10.1145/2811282
  7. Jessica Hullman, Nick Diakopoulos, Elaheh Momeni, Eytan Adar, Content, Context, and Critique: Commenting on a Data Visualization Blog, Proceedings of Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2015), https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675207
  8. Elaheh Momeni, Reza Rawassizadeh, Eytan Adar Leveraging Semantic Facets for Adaptive Ranking of Social Comments, In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Multimedia
    Retrieval (ICMR 2017), https://doi.org/10.1145/3078971.3079004
  9. Elaheh Momeni, Claire Cardie, Nick Diakopoulos,, How to Assess and Rank User-Generated Content onWeb?, WWW ’18: Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference 2018April 2018Pages 489–493 https://doi.org/10.1145/3184558.3186239
  10. Elaheh Momeni, Claire Cardie and Myle Ott, Properties, Prediction, and Prevalence of Useful User-generated Comments for Descriptive Annotation of Social Media, Objects, Proceedings of International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Boston, USA, https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v7i1.14410

Additional skills and experience

  • PI and Proposal Co-Author of national and EU projects at the University of Vienna
  • Boosting Mentor of Austrian Business Incubation Center (BIC) of CERN Technologies 2020, mentoring Austrian PhD and master students to develop their academic work as a real-world product and service (https://cern-bic.accent.at).
  • Program Committee / Reviewing Activities of the impactful journals and processing in computer science such as ACM Computing Surveys Journal, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Journal (TKDE), Web Conference (WWW), ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Multimedia Modeling Conference.
  • Development of eMentalist Labs
  • Co-Founder of eMentalist.ai, one of the most innovative Artificial Intelligence companies in Austria