I am a lecturer (assistant 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 4,700+ times (H-index = 35). 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).
News:
- 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:
- March 2022: I'm now a section editor (HCI) for PeerJ Computer Science.
- February 2022: New grant led by Nishanth Sastry: AP4L: Adaptive PETs to Protect & emPower People during Life Transitions
- February 2022: We'll be running the 3rd edition of the MEDIATE workshop at ICWSM -- submit by 27th March, 2022.
- January 2022: We're guest editing a special issue for PeerJ Computer Science on "Analysis and Mining of Social Media Data" -- submit by 27th May, 2022.
- January 2022: New paper with Rabab Alkhalifa accepted in International Journal of Digital Humanities: "Capturing Stance Dynamics in Social Media: Open Challenges and Research Directions"