I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at Villanova University. I use natural language processing and network science to study how language changes and information spreads, with a focus on news ecosystems and misinformation.
My last name is Gouvêa Gruppi, so my full name is Maurício Gouvêa Gruppi, but I go by the name Maurício Gruppi.
Research
News
2026-05-30
Attended 20th ICWSM in Los Angeles. Emily Lugos presented our work titled "Tracking the Temporal Dynamics of News Coverage of Catastrophic and Violent Events."2025-09-17
Presented a talk on the role of AI in disinformation to the CEET Technology and Society colloquium series.2025-01-16
Our work "On the Effects of Fine-tuning Language Models for Text-Based Reinforcement Learning" was presented at COLING 2025.Students
Tommy Nguyen, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2026
Steve Halley, Graduate Research, Spring 2026
Allyssa Panganiban, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2026
James Vo, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2026
Huyen Nguyen, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2026
Jake Bellenger, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2026
Emily Lugos, MSc Thesis, Spring 2025 - Spring 2026
Alexander Grosh, Undergraduate Research, Spring-Summer 2025
Sankalpa Rijal, MSc Thesis, Fall 2024 - Spring 2026
Giorgi Tsartsidze, Graduate Research, Spring 2025/Fall 2025
Sethumadhava Mekala, Graduate Research, Fall 2024/Spring 2025
Adam Brownell, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2025
Tom Wang, Undergraduate Research, Spring/Summer 2024
Zaynah Khan, Undergraduate Research, Summer 2024
Jessica Esch, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2024
Joaquin Justiniano, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2024