I am a lecturer (assistant professor) at Queen Mary University of London. I lead the Social Data Science lab. My research revolves around Human Factors in Natural Language Processing, interdisciplinary research bridging Social Data Science and NLP. I'm particularly interested in linking online data with events in the real world, among others for tackling problematic issues on the Web and social media 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. Check out my research interests for more.
I have published 90+ papers (30+ journal articles), which have been cited 2,700+ times (H-index = 30). I serve as academic editor for Online Social Networks and Media, PeerJ Computer Science and Information and I'm an editorial board member for Information Processing & Management. I'm a regular (S)PC member for conferences including WWW, ICWSM, CHI, CSCW, ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI, AAAI,... (see CV for more).
Upcoming events/CfPs:
- Submit by 4th August 2020: RecSys 2020 Workshop on Online Misinformation- and Harm-Aware Recommender Systems.
- Submit by 4th September 2020: COLING 2020 Workshop on Rumours and Deception in Social Media.
- Submit by 31st October 2020: Special Issue “Tackling Misinformation Online”.
- Submit by 4th December 2020: Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for Tackling Online Harms.
- Taking place at COLING 2020 (Dec 2020): We’ll be delivering a tutorial on ‘Detection and Resolution of Rumors and Misinformation with NLP’.
News:
- July 2020: New paper accepted in ACM DTRAP: "Towards Automated Factchecking: Developing an Annotation Schema and Benchmark for Consistent Automated Claim Detection"
- July 2020: I'm now a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
- July 2020: We will be guest editing a special issue on "Detecting, Understanding and Countering Online Harms" for the Online Social Networks and Media journal -- details to come soon!
- June 2020: New paper accepted in ACM TWEB: Early Detection of Social Media Hoaxes at Scale.
- June 2020: We will be guest editing a special issue on "Intelligent Systems for Tackling Online Harms" for the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing journal -- submit by 4th December!
- April 2020: We have established the new Social Data Science lab at QMUL, follow us on Twitter!