Samer Al-khateeb is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, Design and Journalism, specializes in the quantitative analysis of publicly available social media data related to topics such as deviance in social media, social cyber forensics, social bots, internet trolls, disinformation/misinformation, fake news, and cyber propaganda campaigns. He also has experience with qualitative analysis, such as directed and summative content analysis, e.g., topic modeling, toxicity, sentiments, and correlation analysis. His most recent research examines the relationship between social science theories and computer simulation. He is currently working on a project to model the mob phenomenon by leveraging factors extracted from social science theories and deep learning to create a computer simulation of mobs to better understand the behavior of the mobbers and predict the mob outcome.