I am a senior lecturer (associate professor) at Queen Mary University of London, where I co-lead the Social Data Science lab, I'm a member of the Computational Linguistics Lab and a DERI Fellow.
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 140+ papers (including 50+ journal articles), which have been cited 5,500+ times (H-index = 37). I serve in the editorial boards of 7 journals (including IP&M, OSNEM, PeerJ Computer Science) and I'm a regular (S)PC member for conferences in computational social science (WWW, ICWSM, CSCW, WebSci), natural language processing (ACL, EMNLP, COLING) and artificial intelligence (IJCAI, AAAI, WSDM).
I'm currently involved in research projects totalling over £5M, including the HYBRIDS MSCA Doctoral Network (PI) and the AP4L project (CI).
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:
- February 2023: We will be running a new edition of the Mediate workshop on Computational Journalism at ICWSM 2023 -- stay tuned for updates!
- January 2023: Welcome to new PhD student Hyunkyung Park!
- January 2023: New paper with Xia Zeng accepted at EACL (Findings): "Active PETs: Active Data Annotation Prioritisation for Few-Shot Claim Verification with Pattern Exploiting Training"
- December 2022: I will be serving as Area Chair (AC) for ACL 2023
- December 2022: We will be organising the First International Workshop on Online Social Networks in the Human-centric Metaverse [OSNeHM] at WWW -- see more details.
- November 2022: New paper with Rabab Alkhalifa et al. accepted in IP&M: "Building for Tomorrow: Assessing the Temporal Persistence of Text Classifiers"
- November 2022: Two papers accepted at ICWSM: