Who am I? A lecturer (assistant professor) at Queen Mary University of London. I lead the Social Data Science lab.
What is my research about? It 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. See more here if you'd like to join my group for a PhD.
- Publications: Over 90 peer-reviewed publications, of which 25+ journal articles.
- Citations: 2,400+ (H-index = 28).
- Journal editorship: Academic editor for Online Social Networks and Media, PeerJ Computer Science and Information and editorial board member for Information Processing & Management.
- Conference reviewing: WWW, ICWSM, CHI, CSCW, ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI, AAAI,... (see CV for more).
Group: Aiqi Jiang, Rabab Alkhalifa, Wenjie Yin, Raneem Alharthi (PhD students).
Openings: We have 3 PhD studentships, open to students of any nationality (deadline 15th July).
Upcoming events/CfPs:
- Submit by 24th July 2020: RecSys 2020 Workshop on Online Misinformation- and Harm-Aware Recommender Systems.
- Submit by 14th September 2020: COLING 2020 Workshop on Rumours and Deception in Social Media.
- Submit by 31st October 2020: Special Issue “Tackling Misinformation Online”.
- Taking place at COLING 2020 (Dec 2020): We’ll be delivering a tutorial on ‘Detection and Resolution of Rumors and Misinformation with NLP’.
News
- April 2020: We have established a new lab focused on social data science, follow us on Twitter!
- March 2020: We will be running the first Workshop on Online Misinformation- and Harm-Aware Recommender Systems, co-located with ACM RecSys 2020!
- January 2020: Welcome to new PhD students Wenjie Yin and Raneem Alharthi!