I'm a lecturer (assistant professor) at Queen Mary University of London. My research revolves around Human Factors in Natural Language Processing, interdisciplinary research bridging NLP and Social Computing. 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 and other forms of online harm.
If you're interested in doing a PhD, you can read more about my research interests here.
Research: I've published over 80 peer-reviewed publications, including 25+ journal publications. My research has been cited over 1,900 times (H-index = 25). I'm a member of the editorial boards of the Information Processing & Management, Online Social Networks and Media, PeerJ Computer Science and Information journals, and a regular reviewer for top conferences including WWW, CHI, CSCW, ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI and AAAI.
News
- October 2019: Our project proposal 'Hate Speech Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Exploring Bias on Hate Perception' has been selected to be funded by Facebook Research!
- September 2019: Paper led by Aiqi Jiang on cross-domain review rating prediction has been accepted for publication in PeerJ Computer Science!
- September 2019: Survey paper on mining social media for newsgathering has been accepted for publication in Online Social Networks and Media!
- August 2019: I am now an editorial board member for the Information journal.
- July 2019: I am now an academic editor for the PeerJ Computer Science journal.
- June 2019: I'm honoured to have been named among the best reviewers for ICWSM 2019!
- June 2019: I have joined the editorial board of the Online Social Networks and Media journal.