I'm an assistant professor at the University of Warwick. I'm broadly interested in leveraging online data (social media, web, open data) to model, track and understand real world phenomena. My recent research has studied use of social media data in the context of journalism for different purposes such as newsgathering, news reporting and analytics. I've also researched other social phenomena such as independence movements, and analysed different demographic groups in social media, with a particular interest in minorities and minorised groups. My work involves research in computational social science, social media mining and natural language processing, amplified by an interdisciplinary perspective involving social sciences such as journalism, sociology and psychology.
I'm open to collaboration, do drop me a line if you're interested in discussing.
News
- 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! More details will be announced soon.
- April 2018: We will be running the 2nd workshop on Rumors and Deception in Social Media (RDSM) at CIKM 2018 -- stay tuned for CfP and updates!
- February 2018: New paper assessing the persistence of Twitter datasets has been accepted for publication in JASIST.
- January 2018: I'm taking up a new role as assistant professor at the University of Warwick, where I'll be teaching Natural Language Processing and Data Mining.
- December 2017: Our paper studying independence movements through social media has been accepted for publication in IEEE Intelligent Systems.
- November 2017: Our paper on discourse-aware rumour stance classification has been accepted for publication in Information Processing & Management.
- November 2017: I'm co-guest editing a special issue for the Online Information Review Journal on Social Media Mining for Journalism. Deadline is 28th February, 2018!
- November 2017: Our survey paper Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media: A Survey has been accepted for publication in ACM Computing Surveys.