I'm a lecturer (assistant professor) at the 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 and inequality.
Research: I've published over 80 peer-reviewed publications, including 25+ journal publications. My research has been cited over 1,500 times (H-index = 22). I'm an editorial board member of the IP&M journal and a regular reviewer for top conferences and journals in NLP (ACL, NAACL, EMNLP), HCI (CHI, CSCW, IUI) and web science (WWW, Hypertext, ICWSM).
News
- March 2019: I have joined Queen Mary University of London as a lecturer.
- February 2019: We'll be running a new edition of the workshop on Rumours and Deception in Social Media, co-located with ICWSM -- check out the CfP!
- December 2018: Paper studying the public perception on the opportunities and challenges of the Internet of Things has been accepted for publication in PLOS ONE.
- November 2018: Paper on Using Gaussian Processes for Rumour Stance Classification in Social Media, led by Michal Lukasik, has been accepted for publication in ACM TOIS.
- September 2018: I'm joining the editorial board of the Information Processing & Management journal.
- July 2018: Our introductory article to the IP&M Special Issue on 'Processing social media in real-time' is now online -- the special issue is in preparation.
- May 2018: Paper on Multi-task Learning for Rumour Verification, led by Elena Kochkina, has been accepted for publication in COLING 2018.
- May 2018: We will be running a new edition of the RumourEval shared task at SemEval 2019!