USC SIGNALS Lab
Tanishq Salkar
Master's Student · Alumni
🚀 Software Engineer & Data Scientist with 2.5+ years of experience building scalable systems, data pipelines, ML solutions, and cloud-native applications across industry and academia. 🧠 Developed NLP models and user similarity networks to analyze 2024 U.S. Election🇺🇸 discourse on social media. ⚡ Proven ability to design robust, production-grade solutions for migrating legacy systems collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable impact.
Publications
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior on TikTok: Challenges and Opportunities for Detection in a Video-First Ecosystem
Authors: L Luceri, TV Salkar, A Balasubramanian, G Pinto, C Sun, E Ferrara
Year: 2026Journal: ICWSM'26 – 20th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social MediaLarge-scale detection of multilingual coordinated activity on Telegram
Authors: L Blas, D Saraf, T Salkar, N Adadurova, L Luceri, E Ferrara
Year: 2025Journal: npj Complexity 2 (1)Tracking the 2024 US presidential election chatter on TikTok: A public multimodal dataset
Authors: G Pinto, C Bickham, T Salkar, J Menezes, L Luceri, E Ferrara
Year: 2025Journal: Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025