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 3,200+ times (H-index = 32). 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 January 2021: PUC Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for Tackling Online Harms.
News:
- January 2021: Welcome to new PhD student Parisa Jamadi!
- December 2020: New paper led by Neeraj Vashistha accepted in Information: "Online Multilingual Hate Speech Detection: Experimenting with Hindi and English Social Media"
- December 2020: New paper led by Xiaoyu Guo accepted in Information studies: Theory & Application (in Chinese): "A Review of Internet Meme Studies: State of the Art and Outlook"
- December 2020: I will be serving as senior PC member (SPC) for IJCAI 2021.
- October 2020: I will be serving as senior PC member (SPC) for ICWSM 2021, as associate chair (AC) for CSCW 2021 and as area chair (AC) for NAACL 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!