I'm a lecturer (assistant professor) at 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, inequality and other forms of online harm.
If you're interested in doing a PhD, you can read more about my research interests here.
Research: I've published over 80 peer-reviewed publications, including 25+ journal publications. My research has been cited over 2,200 times (H-index = 27). I'm a member of the editorial boards of the Information Processing & Management, Online Social Networks and Media, PeerJ Computer Science and Information journals, and a regular reviewer for top conferences including WWW, CHI, CSCW, ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI and AAAI.
News
- January 2020: Welcome to new PhD students Wenjie Yin and Raneem Alharthi!
- November 2019: New grant proposal funded! This is a Royal Society International Exchange to work on an 'Online Harm-Aware Recommender System'!
- November 2019: I'm now a Section Editor-in-Chief for the MDPI Information journal.
- October 2019: Will be presenting a tutorial on 'Detection and Resolution of Rumors and Misinformation with NLP' with Leon Derczynski at COLING 2020
- October 2019: We will be running a new edition of the workshop on Rumours and Deception in Social Media (RDSM), co-located with COLING 2020 -- submit by 20th May
- October 2019: We are guest editing a special issue of the Information journal on Tackling Misinformation Online -- stay tuned for updates!
- October 2019: Our project proposal 'Hate Speech Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Exploring Bias on Hate Perception' has been selected to be funded by Facebook Research!
- September 2019: Welcome to new PhD students Aiqi Jiang and Rabab Alkhalifa!