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 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 150+ papers, including 60+ journal articles. I serve as section editor-in-chief for 3 journals (PeerJ Computer Science, Frontiers in AI and Information), in the editorial boards of 4 journals (including IP&M and OSNEM) and I'm a regular (S)PC member for conferences in computational social science (WWW, ICWSM, CSCW, WebSci), natural language processing (ACL, EMNLP, COLING) and artificial intelligence (IJCAI, AAAI, WSDM).
I'm currently involved in the HYBRIDS MSCA Doctoral Network (PI) and the AP4L project (CI).
News:
- April 2024: New paper with Rrubaa Panchendrarajan accepted in Expert Systems with Applications: "Synergizing Machine Learning & Symbolic Methods: A Survey on Hybrid Approaches to Natural Language Processing"
- March 2024: New paper accepted at SIGIR: "Combining Large Language Models and Crowdsourcing for Hybrid Human-AI Misinformation Detection"
- March 2024: New paper with Rrubaa Panchendrarajan accepted in the Natural Language Processing Journal: "Claim Detection for Automated Fact-checking: A Survey on Monolingual, Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Research"
- March 2024: Aiqi Jiang has passed her PhD viva, subject to minor revisions, congratulations!
- February 2024: New paper with Eszter Zsisku and Haim Dubossarsky accepted at ACM WebSci: "Hate Speech Detection and Reclaimed Language: Mitigating False Positives and Compounded Discrimination"
- January 2024: New paper with Xia Zeng accepted at EACL (Findings): "MAPLE: Micro Analysis of Pairwise Language Evolution for Few-Shot Claim Verification"
- January 2024: I have received an award as the 2023 Best Editor for the Online Social Networks and Media journal.