I am a lecturer (assistant professor) at Queen Mary University of London. I 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 100+ papers (30+ journal articles), which have been cited 3,600+ times (H-index = 33). I serve as academic editor for Online Social Networks and Media, PeerJ Computer Science, Electronics and Information and I'm an editorial board member for Information Processing & Management. I'm a regular (S)PC member for conferences including WWW, ICWSM, CHI, CSCW, ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI, AAAI,... (see CV for more).
News:
- June 2021: I'm now an associate editor for the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence journal.
- May 2021: New paper with Wenjie Yin accepted in PeerJ Computer Science: " Towards generalisable hate speech detection: a review on obstacles and solutions"
- May 2021: I'm now an academic editor for the Electronics journal.
- May 2021: We're organising a shared task on multilingual lexical normalisation: MultiLexNorm
- April 2021: Welcome to new PhD student Dina Pisarevskaya!
- March 2021: I'll be giving a keynote talk at the ROMCIR 2021 workshop, co-located with ECIR 2021.
- March 2021: We will be organising the 2nd workshop on Online Misinformation and Harm-Aware Recommender Systems (OHARS) at RecSys 2021 -- submit by 24th July!
- March 2021: I will be serving as Area Chair (AC) for EMNLP 2021.
- February 2021: New paper with Leon Fröhling accepted in PeerJ Computer Science: "Feature-based detection of automated language models: Tackling GPT-2, GPT-3 and Grover"
- January 2021: New paper with Diogo Cortiz accepted in International Review of Information Ethics: "Ethical and Technical Challenges of AI in Tackling Hate Speech"
- January 2021: Welcome to new PhD student Parisa Jamadi!