I am a senior lecturer (associate professor) at Queen Mary University of London, where I co-lead the Social Data Science lab and I'm the Director of Graduate Studies. I'm also a member of the Computational Linguistics Lab and a DERI Fellow.
My research revolves around Socially-Aware Natural Language Processing, interdisciplinary research bridging Computational Social Science and Natural Language Processing. I'm broadly interested in furthering NLP methods for mining social media and online data, as well as in furthering our understanding of human behaviour through the study of social media. My recent research has a particular focus on 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 150+ papers, including 50+ journal articles. I serve as section editor-in-chief for 3 journals (PeerJ Computer Science, Frontiers in AI and Information), in the editorial boards of 4 journals (including IP&M and OSNEM) 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:
- December 2023: I will be serving as Area Chair (AC) for NAACL 2024
- October 2023: I am now an editor-in-chief for Frontiers in AI's Natural Language Processing section.
- October 2023: Welcome to new PhD students Yufeng Li and Pui Chung (Jacky) Siu!
- September 2023: I will be serving as Senior Area Chair (SAC) for EACL 2024
- September 2023: Welcome to new PhD student Rrubaa Panchendrarajan!
- September 2023: I will be serving as Area Chair (AC) for LREC-COLING 2024
- September 2023: I will be serving as Senior PC member (SPC) for ICWSM 2024 and WebSci2024
- August 2023: We will be running a new edition of the LongEval lab on longitudinal evaluation of models at CLEF 2024.
- June 2023: I will be serving as Area Chair (AC) for EMNLP 2023
- June 2023: New paper with Raneem Alharthi et al accepted in IEEE Access: "Target-Oriented Investigation of Online Abusive Attacks: A Dataset and Analysis"
- 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"