I am a senior lecturer (associate professor) at Queen Mary University of London, where I co-lead the Social Data Science lab, I'm a member of the Computational Linguistics Lab and a DERI Fellow.
My research revolves around Social Data Science, interdisciplinary research bridging Computational Social Science and Natural Language Processing. 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 140+ papers (including 50+ journal articles), which have been cited 6,000+ times (H-index = 38). I serve in the editorial boards of 7 journals (including IP&M, OSNEM, PeerJ Computer Science) and I'm a regular (S)PC member for conferences in computational social science (WWW, ICWSM, CSCW, WebSci), natural language processing (ACL, EMNLP, COLING) and artificial intelligence (IJCAI, AAAI, WSDM).
I'm currently involved in the HYBRIDS MSCA Doctoral Network (PI) and the AP4L project (CI).
News:
- June 2023: New paper with Peiling Yi accepted in Online Social Networks and Media: "Session-based Cyberbullying Detection in Social Media: A Survey"
- April 2023: New paper with Amani Abumansour accepted in PeerJ Computer Science: "Check-worthy Claim Detection across Topics for Automated Fact-checking"
- March 2023: New paper with Parisa Jamadi accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems: "Few-shot Learning for Cross-Target Stance Detection by Aggregating Multimodal Embeddings"
- February 2023: I will be giving a keynote talk at this year's ICWSM data challenge on Temporal Social Data.
- February 2023: New paper with Peiling Yi accepted at The Web Conference: "Learning like human annotators: Cyberbullying detection in lengthy social media sessions"
- February 2023: We will be running a new edition of the Mediate workshop on Computational Journalism at ICWSM 2023 -- submit by 27th March
- January 2023: Welcome to new PhD student Hyunkyung Park!
- January 2023: New paper with Xia Zeng accepted at EACL (Findings): "Active PETs: Active Data Annotation Prioritisation for Few-Shot Claim Verification with Pattern Exploiting Training"