SMASH Research Group

Meet the Team

Directors

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Björn Ross

Reader (Associate Professor)

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Tuğrulcan Elmas

Lecturer

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Walid Magdy

Professor

Researchers

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Zeerak Talat

Chancellor's Fellow

Doctoral Researchers

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Sandrine Chausson

PhD Student

Applied Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science, History of Ideas, Cognitive Biases, Moral Philosophy

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Yi (Wendy) Zheng

PhD student

NLG, Hate Speech & Counterspeech, Social Science

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Mahmoud Fawzi

PhD Student

Misinformation, Digital Religion, Social Media

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Zahra Bokaee

PhD Student

NLP, Computational Social Science, Computational Linguistics

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Artemis Deligianni

PhD Student

Cognitive Bias and Gender, Applied Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science, Social Cognition

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Cyndie Demeocq

PhD Student

Generative AI, LLMs, MLLMs, Child Safety, Illegal Harms

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Benazir Pratamawaty

PhD Student

Political communication and social media, Social media activism, Digital literacy, Policy communication

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Tom Bidewell

PhD Student

Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Sports Video

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Alessandra Terranova

PhD Student

Natural Language Processing, LLM-based Agents, Experiential Learning, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Misinformation Countering

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Morgan Frodsham

PhD Student

Responsible NLP, evidence synthesis, evidence-based decision-making, collective intelligence, democratic engagement

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Nataliya Stepanova

PhD Student

Natural Language Processing, Automated Fact Checking

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Onat Özdemir

PhD Student

Multimodal Learning, Explainable AI, Misinformation

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Mugdha Pandya

PhD Student

Natural Language Processing, Hate Speech Detection, Cultural Bias in NLP

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Duncan Reid

PhD Student

Digital artefacts, Digital memories, Digital Dark Age, Privacy, Security

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Riyadh Alnasser

PhD Student

Computational Social Science (CSS), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, Data Science, AI for Social Good

Alumni and former members

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Maria Wolters

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Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya

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Christopher Barrie

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Youcef Benkhedda

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Sabyasachi Kamila

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Guillermo Romero Moreno

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Dilara Kekulluoglu

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Xue Li

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Youssef Al Hariri

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Alexander Robertson

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Silviu Oprea

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Mohamed Bahgat

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Ibrahim Abu Farha

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Julie-Anne Meaney

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Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant

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Agostina Calabrese

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Eddie Ungless

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Amr Keleg

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Abeer AlDayel

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Lushi Chen

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Steve Wilson

The Team

The SMASH team outside the Informatics Forum

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