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.
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 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 such as WWW, CHI, ACL, IJCAI and AAAI.
News
- April 2019: Our Special Issue on Processing Social Media in Real-Time is now published in the Information Processing & Management journal.
- March 2019: Our Special Issue on Social Media Mining for Journalism is now published in the Online Information Review journal.
- 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.