I am a senior lecturer (associate professor) at Queen Mary University of London, where I co-lead the Social Data Science lab. My research revolves around Social Data Science, interdisciplinary research bridging Computational Social Science and Natural Language Processing. 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. Check out my research interests for more.
I have published 130+ papers (40+ journal articles), which have been cited 5,100+ times (H-index = 36). I serve as academic editor for 6 journals and I'm a regular (S)PC member for conferences in computational social science (WWW, ICWSM, CHI, CSCW), natural language processing (ACL, EMNLP, COLING) and artificial intelligence (IJCAI, AAAI, WSDM).
I'm currently involved in research projects totalling over £5M, including the PI role in the HYBRIDS MSCA Doctoral Network starting in January 2023.
Prospective PhD students: If you are interested in PhD supervision, please get in touch to discuss your interests and potential funding opportunities. Please make sure to send me a CV as well as your research interests.
News:
- September 2022: I will be giving a keynote talk at AIDisinfo 2022
- September 2022: New paper with Xia Zeng accepted in PeerJ Computer Science: "Aggregating pairwise semantic differences for few-shot claim verification"
- August 2022: We will be running a lab / shared task on "Temporal Persistence of Text Classifiers" at CLEF 2023 - more info
- July 2022: I will be serving as Associate Chair (AC) for CSCW 2023.
- June 2022: I will be a panellist at a SIGIR 2022 panel on misinformation.
- May 2022: I will be serving as Area Chair (AC) for COLING 2022 ('Offensive and non-inclusive language detection and analysis' track).
- April 2022: New paper with Wenjie Yin accepted in Online Social Networks and Media: "Hidden behind the obvious: misleading keywords and implicitly abusive language on social media"
- April 2022: New paper with Miguel Arana-Catania et al accepted at NAACL: "Natural Language Inference with Self-Attention for Veracity Assessment of Pandemic Claims"
- March 2022: Two papers accepted at ICWSM: