I am a senior lecturer (associate professor) at Queen Mary University of London, where I co-lead the Social Data Science lab and I'm Director of Graduate Studies. I'm also part of the leadership team of the Centre for Human-Centred Computing.
My research lies in the intersection between Computational Social Science and Natural Language Processing. I'm broadly interested in furthering NLP and LLM methods for processing social media and Web data, with a key focus on tackling problematic issues that can have a damaging effect on individuals or society at large, such as hate speech, misinformation, inequality, biases and other forms of online harm. I'm also interested in detecting and addressing irresponsible use of AI, where LLMs are used for malicious purposes such as misinformation and abusive content, for augmenting existing societal biases or for producing content that is claimed to be human generated. Check out my research interests for more.
I have published 170+ papers, including 60+ journal articles, in some of the most selective venues including ICWSM, WWW, ACL, EMNLP, EACL, NAACL, COLING, SIGIR, CIKM, and a wide range of selective journals.
I'm currently involved in the HYBRIDS MSCA Doctoral Network (PI).
News:
- May 2025: New paper with Hiu Ting Lau accepted in the Natural Language Processing Journal: "Understanding the Effects of Human-written Paraphrases in LLM-generated Text Detection"
- April 2025: New paper with Parisa Jamadi accepted in Expert Systems with Applications: "Cross-Target Stance Detection: A Survey of Techniques, Datasets, and Challenges"
- April 2025: Peiling Yi has passed her PhD viva, subject to minor revisions, congratulations!
- April 2025: Welcome to new PhD students Alaa Bazaid and Ali Khairallah!
- March 2025: New paper with Aida Halitaj accepted in Expert Systems with Applications: "ALPET: Active Few-shot Learning for Citation Worthiness Detection in Low-Resource Wikipedia Languages"
- February 2025: I will be serving as senior area chair for ACL 2025
- January 2025: Our survey paper on session-based cyberbullying detection received the 2024 OSNEM best survey award.
- November 2024: New paper with Dina Pisarevskaya accepted at COLING: "Zero-shot and Few-shot Learning with Instruction-following LLMs for Claim Matching in Automated Fact-checking"
- November 2024: Two papers with Peiling Yi accepted at ICWSM: