Curriculum Vitae

Education

• 2008-2011: PhD in Computer Science, UNED [Best PhD Award].
• 2006-2008: MSc in Language Technologies on the Web, UNED.
• 2000-2005: MEng in Computer Science and Information Engineering, Mondragon Unibertsitatea.

Current Positions

• 2019-Present: Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
• 2022-Present: Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor.
• 2019-2022: Lecturer / Assistant Professor.

Past Employment

• 2019: Senior research fellow, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
• 2018: Assistant professor, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
• 2016-2024: Visiting lecturer, NLP&IR Group, UNED, Madrid, Spain.
  
• 2014-2017: Post-doctoral research fellow, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
• 2013-2014: Post-doctoral research fellow, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland.
• 2012-2013: Post-doctoral Research Associate, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA.
• 2010: Visiting researcher at the Knowledge Management Institute, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.
• 2008-2011: Research fellow, NLP&IR Group, UNED, Madrid, Spain.

Languages

• English: Full professional proficiency.
• Basque: Native (mother tongue).
• Spanish: Native.
• Catalan: Professional working proficiency.

Research Grants

• 2023-2026: HYBRIDS: Hybrid Intelligence to monitor, promote and analyse transformations in good democracy practices [info (UK), info (EU)]
  MSCA Doctoral Network, principal investigator, €2.6M + £265K
• 2022-2025: AP4L: Adaptive PETs to Protect & emPower People during Life Transitions [info]
  EPSRC, co-investigator, £2.8M
  Principal Investigator: Nishanth Sastry (University of Surrey)
  Co-investigators: Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro and others
• 2020-2022: Learning from COVID-19: An AI-enabled evidence-driven framework for claim veracity assessment during pandemics [info]
  EPSRC, co-investigator, £430,000
  Principal Investigator: Yulan He (University of Warwick)
  Co-investigators: Rob Procter (University of Warwick), Maria Liakata (QMUL)
• 2019-2022: Online Harm-Aware Recommender System
  Royal Society International Exchange, Principal Investigator, £12,000
  Co-investigators: Daniela Godoy (UNICEN, Argentina)
• 2019-2020: Hate Speech Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Exploring Bias on Hate Perception
  Facebook Research, co-investigator, £44,000
  Principal Investigator: Antonela Tommasel (UNICEN, Argentina)
  Co-investigators: Aiqi Jiang (QMUL), Rabab Alkhalifa (QMUL), Daniela Godoy (UNICEN, Argentina)
• 2019: Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy
  Nesta, co-investigator, £20,000
  Principal Investigators: Miguel Arana Catania (Madrid City Council), Rob Procter (University of Warwick)

Research Projects Involved In (As a postdoc or PhD student)

• 2017: PETRAS, Internet of Things Research Hub, funded by EPSRC.
• 2017: Language sensing study for dementia monitoring and diagnosis.
• 2014-2017: PHEME, Computing Veracity, the 4th Challenge of Big Data. Funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Program.
• 2015: Developing a Flood Memory App: Sustainable Social Informatics for Flood Risk and Resilience. Funded by ESRC.
• 2013-2014: Centre for Applied Data Analytics Research (CeADAR). Funded by Enterprise Ireland.
• 2012-2013: Army Research Lab’s INARC (Information Network Academic Research Center). Funded by the US Army Research Lab.
• 2012-2013: DARPA BOLT (Broad Operational Language Translation). Funded by DARPA.
• 2011: Holopedia: The Automatic Encyclopedia of People and Organizations. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
• 2010-2011: OPENMT-2: Hybrid Machine Translation and advanced evaluation. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
• 2008-2011: MAVIR/MA2VICMR: Mejorando el Acceso, el Análisis y la Visibilidad de la Información y los Contenidos Multilingüe y Multimedia en Red para la Comunidad de Madrid. Funded by the Regional Government of Madrid.
• 2008-2010: QEAVis: Quantitative Evaluation of Academic Websites’ Visibility. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Fellowships, Scholarships and Awards

• 2024: Best Senior PC award at ICWSM 2024.
• 2024: Second runner-up to the best paper award (honorable mention) at WebSci 2024.
• 2024: Online Social Networks and Media 2023 Best Editor Award.
• 2020: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
• 2019: Best reviewer award at ICWSM 2019.
• 2017: Best paper award at CHI 2017.
• 2012: Best PhD award, UNED.
• 2011: Scholarship to attend Wikimania 2011, Wikimedia Foundation.
• 2009: Scholarship to attend ACM DocEng 2009, ACM SIGWeb.
• 2009: Scholarship to attend Wikimania 2009, Wikimedia Foundation.
• 2009: Scholarship to attend the TrebleClef Summer School on Multilingual Information Access, TrebleCLEF.
• 2008-2011: Research Fellowship at the NLP&IR Group of the UNED University, Region of Madrid.

Community Service

  Journal Editorship

• PeerJ Computer Science: Section Editor.
• Online Social Networks and Media: Area Editor.
• Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences: Associate Editor.
• Electronics: Academic Editor.
• Information: Section Editor-in-Chief.
• Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Section Editor-in-Chief.
• Information Processing & Management: Editorial Board member.

  Special Issues Guest Edited

• PeerJ Computer Science Special Issue on "Analysis and Mining of Social Media Data".
• Online Social Networks and Media Special Issue on "Detecting, Understanding and Countering Online Harms".
• Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Special Issue on "Intelligent Systems for Tackling Online Harms".
• Information Special Issue on "Tackling Misinformation Online".
• Online Information Review Special Issue on "Social Media Mining for Journalism".
• Information Processing & Management journal Special Issue on "Processing Social Media in Real Time".

Keynote Talks

• Broadening and Customising Abusive Language Detection, at the 2024 Cardiff NLP workshop.
• The impact of time on social media research and classification, at the ICWSM 2023 Data Challenge on Temporal social data
• Towards Automated Fact-checking for Detecting and Verifying Claims, at AIDisinfo 2022, the International seminar on artificial intelligence and disinformation.
• Generalisation in Social Media Research: from Fact Verification to Hate Speech Detection, at PAN 2021
• Towards Automated Fact-checking for Detecting and Verifying Claims, at ROMCIR 2021

Panels

• Google Responsible AI Summit 2024 in Paris, France: Panel on Hate & LLMs.
• SIGIR 2022 panel on Search, Recommendation and infodemics: spreading misinformation versus editorializing the truth

Conference Chairing

• Session Chair at ICWSM 2023.
• Session Chair at ICWSM 2022.
• Session Chair at TTO 2021.
• Session Chair at TTO 2020.
• Session Chair at IC2S2 2020.
• Social Media, Networks, Systems and Services Track co-chair at SocialCom 2014.
• Workshop Chair for Hypertext 2012, the 23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media.

Workshops Organised

• 2024: LongEval, a shared task / lab on longitudinal evaluation of models at CLEF 2024.
• 2023: Uncovering and Preventing Malicious Activities in Social Networks using Data Science and Machine Learning, a special session at DSAA 2023.
• 2023: MEDIATE workshop at ICWSM-23.
• 2023: OSNeHM, the First International Workshop on Online Social Networks in the Human-centric Metaverse at WWW 2023.
• 2023: LongEval, a shared task / lab on longitudinal evaluation of models at CLEF 2023.
• 2022: MEDIATE workshop at ICWSM-22.
• 2022: Artificial Intelligence for Countering Disinformation and Information warfare, a special session at IJCNN 2022.
• 2021: MultiLexNorm 2021, shared task on multilingual lexical normalisation.
• 2021: OHARS 2021, the 2nd workshop on Online Misinformation- and Harm-Aware Recommender Systems at ACM RecSys 2021.
• 2020: OHARS 2020, the workshop on Online Misinformation- and Harm-Aware Recommender Systems at ACM RecSys 2020.
• 2020: RDSM 2020, workshop on Rumours and Deception in Social Media at COLING 2020.
• 2019: RumourEval 2019, a shared task on determining rumour veracity and support at SemEval 2019.
• 2018: RDSM 2018, the workshop on Rumours and Deception in Social Media at CIKM 2018.
• 2017: M-WePNaD 2017, a shared task on the disambiguation of person names on the multilingual Web at IberEval 2017.
• 2017: RumourEval 2017, a shared task on determining rumour veracity and support at SemEval 2017.
• 2016: SMnews 2016, the Social Media in the Newsroom workshop at ICWSM-16.
• 2015: TweetMT 2015 at SEPLN 2015
• 2014: TweetLID 2014 at SEPLN 2014.
• 2013: Tweet-Norm 2013, the Tweet Normalization Workshop at SEPLN 2013.
• 2013: RAMSS 2013, the Real-Time Analysis and Mining of Social Streams workshop at WWW 2013.
• 2012: RAMSS 2012, the Real-Time Analysis and Mining of Social Streams workshop at ICWSM-12.

  PhD Examiner

1. December 2024: Mubashara Akhtar.
   Supervisor: Elena Simperl, King's College London.
2. September 2024: Neng Zhang.
   Supervisor: Ebroul Izquierdo, QMUL.
3. August 2024: Rini Anggrainingsih.
   Supervisor: Amitava Datta, University of Western Australia.
4. June 2024: Afaf Abdulaziz Alharbi.
   Supervisor: Qianni Zhang, QMUL.
5. March 2024: Joseph Kwarteng.
   Supervisor: Miriam Fernandez, Open University.
6. March 2024: Gretel Liz De la Peña Sarracén.
   Supervisor: Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia.
7. September 2023: Carla Perez Almendros.
   Supervisor: Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University.
8. August 2023: Young-Ok Cha.
   Supervisor: Yang Hao, QMUL.
9. May 2023: Michael Soprano.
   Supervisors: Stefano Mizzaro and Kevin Roitero, University of Udine.
10. April 2023: Yida Mu.
    Supervisor: Nikolaos Aletras, University of Sheffield.
11. March 2023: Paula Fortuna.
    Supervisor: Leo Wanner, Pompeu Fabra University.
12. November 2022: Nitu Bharati.
    Supervisor: Alistair Willis, Open University.
13. May 2022: Husam Quteineh.
    Supervisors: Spyridon Samothrakis and Richard Sutcliffe, University of Essex.
14. April 2022: Carlos Santos-Armendariz.
    Supervisor: Matthew Purver, QMUL.
15. November 2021: Alexandra Uma.
    Supervisor: Massimo Poesio, QMUL.
16. September 2021: Hermenegildo Fabregat.
    Supervisors: Lourdes Araujo and Juan Martinez-Romo, UNED.
17. June 2021: Adam Poulston.
    Supervisors: Mark Stevenson and Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield.
18. May 2021: Abeer Aldayel.
    Supervisor: Walid Magdy, University of Edinburgh.
19. December 2020: Bilal Ghanem.
    Supervisor: Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia.
20. November 2020: Ye Jiang.
    Supervisor: Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield.
21. June 2020: Aritz Bilbao.
    Supervisor: Aitor Almeida, University of Deusto.
22. February 2020: Javier Cuenca Ariza.
    Supervisors: Felix Larrinaga, Mondragon Unibertsitatea and Ed Curry, NUI Galway.
23. June 2019: Claudia Orellana-Rodriguez.
    Supervisor: Mark Keane. University College Dublin.
24. July 2017: Zuhaitz Beloki.
    Supervisors: Aitor Soroa and Xabier Artola. University of the Basque Country.
25. July 2017: Xabier Saralegi.
    Supervisors: Eneko Agirre and Iñaki Alegria. University of the Basque Country.
26. February 2017: Ander Barrena.
    Supervisors: Eneko Agirre and Aitor Soroa. University of the Basque Country.
27. December 2016: André Sabino.
    Supervisor: Armanda Rodrigues. Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
28. October 2016: Alain Perez.
    Supervisors: Felix Larrinaga and Juan Ignacio Igartua. Mondragon Unibertsitatea.
29. May 2015: Ander Intxaurrondo.
    Supervisors: Eneko Agirre and Oier Lopez de Lacalle. University of the Basque Country.

  Program Committee Membership (Selected)

• AAAI: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (SPC), 2023
• AACL: 2020, 2022, 2023
• ACL: 2011, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 (AC), 2024 (AC)
• ARR: 2021-2022, 2023 (AC), 2024 (SAC)
• ACM Hypertext: 2013, 2017, 2018 (SPC), 2019
• CHI: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022
• CIKM: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 (SPC)
• COLING: 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 (AC), 2024 (AC)
• CSCW: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 (AC), 2022 (AC), 2023 (AC)
• EACL: 2021, 2023 (AC), 2024 (SAC)
• ECAI: 2020, 2022
• EMNLP: 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021 (AC), 2022, 2023 (AC)
• ICWSM: 2018, 2019, 2020 (SPC), 2021 (SPC), 2022 (SPC), 2023 (SPC), 2024 (SPC)
• IJCAI: 2019, 2020, 2021 (SPC), 2022, 2023
• IUI: 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021
• LREC: 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024 (AC)
• NAACL-HLT: 2018, 2019, 2021 (AC), 2022, 2024 (AC)
• RecSys: 2020
• SIGIR: 2012
• SocInfo: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
• TheWebConf (formerly WWW): 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• WebSci: 2014, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 (SPC), 2024 (SPC)
• WSDM: 2023

Publications

See section Publications