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Bollywood Movie Corpus for Text, Images and Videos

Published in arXiv, 2017

A large multimodal dataset (text, images, video) designed for computational media analysis, enabling research on representation, fairness, and cultural analytics in film.

Recommended citation: N. Madaan, S. Mehta, M. Saxena, A. Aggarwal, T. Agrawaal, V. Malhotra. Bollywood Movie Corpus for Text, Images and Videos. arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.04142, 2017.
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Analyze, Detect and Remove Gender Stereotyping from Bollywood Movies

Published in ACM FAT* (now ACM FAccT), 2018

A fairness and NLP framework that detects and mitigates gender stereotyping in films using text, image, and audio analysis across Bollywood movies. Paper available via PMLR.

Recommended citation: N. Madaan, S. Mehta, T. Agrawaal, V. Malhotra, A. Aggarwal, Y. Gupta, M. Saxena. Analyze, Detect and Remove Gender Stereotyping from Bollywood Movies. FAT* (now ACM FAccT), 2018.
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A Comparison of Graph Neural Networks for Malware Classification

Published in Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques, 2023

A systematic comparison of graph neural network architectures for malware detection, demonstrating where GNNs outperform classical and neural baselines on real malware datasets.

Recommended citation: Vrinda Malhotra, Katerina Potika, and Mark Stamp. A Comparison of Graph Neural Networks for Malware Classification. Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques, 2023.
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AgentZero++: Modeling Fear-Based Behavior in Social Systems

Published in CSSSA, 2025

A fear-based extension of Epstein’s AgentZero, modeling how emotions, credibility, and social signals interact to shape collective behavior in complex societies. Preprint available on arXiv. Awarded The SimTable Advancing the Philosophy and Technique of Computational Social Systems Award and the Best Paper Award at CSS2025.

Recommended citation: Vrinda Malhotra, Jiaman Li, and Nandini Pisupati. AgentZero++: Modeling Fear-Based Behavior in Social Systems. Computational Social Science Society of the Americas (CSSSA), 2025.
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CDS 102

Undergraduate course, George Mason University, CDS Department, 2024

Introduction to Computational and Data Sciences course will teach students how to use R to analyze data. This course is more focused on programming. I taught it from Fall 2024 to Fall 2025.

CDS 101

Undergraduate course, George Mason University, CDS Department, 2025

Introduction to Computational and Data Sciences course will teach students how to use R to analyze data.