I'm a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Warwick. I'm broadly interested in leveraging online data (social media, web, open data) to model, track and understand real world phenomena. My recent research has studied use of social media data in the context of journalism for different purposes such as newsgathering, news reporting and analytics. I've also researched other social phenomena such as independence movements, and analysed different demographic groups in social media, with a particular interest in minorities and minorised groups. My work involves research in computational social science, social media mining and natural language processing, amplified by an interdisciplinary perspective involving social sciences such as journalism, sociology and psychology.
I'm open to collaboration, do drop me a line if you're interested in discussing.
News
- September 2017: Our demo paper TOTEMSS: Topic-based, Temporal Sentiment Summarisation for Twitter has been accepted at IJCNLP.
- August 2017: Our paper Microblog Analysis as a Programme of Work has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Social Computing.
- July 2017: We've got 3 papers accepted at SocInfo 2017 on rumour detection, rumour stance classification and tweet clustering!
- April 2017: Our paper on country-level geolocation of tweets has been accepted for publication in IEEE TKDE!
- March 2017: Our CHI 2017 paper on the use of UGC in journalistic practice received a best paper award!
- February 2017: I'm co-guest editing a special issue for the Information Processing & Management Journal on Processing Social Media in Real-Time. Deadline is
7th July31st July!