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