I am a senior lecturer (associate professor) at Queen Mary University of London, where I co-lead the Social Data Science lab and I'm the Director of Graduate Studies. I'm also a member of the Computational Linguistics Lab and a DERI Fellow.
My research lies in the intersection between Computational Social Science and Natural Language Processing. I'm broadly interested in furthering NLP and LLM methods for mining social media and online data, as well as in furthering our understanding of human behaviour through the study of social media. My recent research has a particular focus on 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 160+ papers, including 60+ journal articles, in some of the most selective venues including ICWSM, WWW, ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR.
I'm currently involved in the HYBRIDS MSCA Doctoral Network (PI) and the AP4L project (CI).
News:
- September 2024: New paper with Weihe Zhai accepted at EMNLP: "Towards Faithful Knowledge Graph Explanation Through Deep Alignment in Commonsense Question Answering"
- August 2024: Wenjie Yin has passed their PhD viva, subject to minor revisions, congratulations!
- July 2024: New paper with Aida Halitaj accepted in the Natural Language Processing Journal: "Providing Citations to Support Fact-checking: Contextualizing Detection of Sentences Needing Citation on Small Wikipedias"
- June 2024: I have received a Best Senior PC award from ICWSM 2024.
- June 2024: Xia Zeng has passed her PhD viva, subject to minor revisions, congratulations!
- May 2024: Our WebSci paper received an honorable mention as the second runner-up to the best paper award.