Fake news on social media has become a serious problem, and social media platforms
have started to actively implement various interventions to mitigate its impact. This paper …

Fake news is capturing increasing attention worldwide and severely impacting our society.
In this thesis, I examine three aspects of this issue with the help of computerized textual …

Solids with deformation-diffusion coupling are ubiquitous in engineering applications.
Understanding and modeling the fracture of such solids is vitally important. This thesis …