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 100+ papers (30+ journal articles), which have been cited 2,900+ times (H-index = 31). 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 31st October 2020: Information Special Issue “Tackling Misinformation Online”.
- Submit by 15th November 2020: OSNEM Special Issue on Detecting, Understanding and Countering Online Harms.
- Submit by 4th December 2020: PUC 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:
- October 2020: I will be serving as associate chair (AC) for CSCW 2021.
- October 2020: Welcome to new PhD student Amani Abumansour!
- September 2020: Our EPSRC proposal "Learning from COVID-19: An AI-enabled evidence-driven framework for claim veracity assessment during pandemics" has been funded!
- September 2020: Welcome to new PhD students Xia Zeng and Peiling Yi!
- September 2020: New paper led by Shital Lathiya accepted in OSNEM! "Birds of a Feather Check Together: Leveraging Homophily for Sequential Rumour Detection"
- August 2020: New paper accepted at CIKM 2020: "Exploiting Class Labels to Boost Performance on Embedding-based Text Classification"
- 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 -- submit by 15th November.