Meet the Team

Directors

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Walid Magdy

Professor

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Björn Ross

Reader (Associate Professor)

Computational social science, Information systems, Social media

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Tuğrulcan Elmas

Lecturer

social media manipulation, NLP, computational social science

Researchers

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Zeerak Talaat

Chancellor’s Fellow

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Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya

Postdoctoral Scholar

Social Media Manipulation, Targeted Marketing, NLP, Responsible AI

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

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Benazir Pratamawaty

PhD Student

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Tom Bidewell

PhD Student

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Alessandra Terranova

PhD Student

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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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Duncan Reid

PhD Student

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Mughda Pandya

PhD Student

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Riyadh Alnasser

PhD Student

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Adam Ferron

Phd Student

Digital (Authoritarianism), Political Islam, State-society relations

Alumni

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Maria Wolters

Reader in Design Informatics

digital inclusion, ehealth

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Christopher Barrie

Lecturer in Computational Sociology

Political Communication, NLP, Digital trace data

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Youcef Benkhedda

Alumni

Computational social science, NLP, User profiling

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Sabyasachi Kamila

Alumni

NLP, CSS

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Guillermo Romero Moreno

Research Associate

Opinion Dynamics, Computational Social Science, Collective Learning

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Dilara Kekulluoglu

Research Associate

Privacy on Social Media, Responsible AI, Human-Computer Interaction, Computational Social Science

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Xue Li

Research Associate

Computational Logic, NLP, Knowledge Representation

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Youssef Al Hariri

Research Associate

Computational social science, Data science, NLP

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Alexander Robertson

Alumni

Language variation, Social media, Data science

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Silviu Oprea

Recent graduate

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Mohamed Bahgat

Phd Student

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Ibrahim AbuFarha

PhD Student

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Julie-Anne Meaney

PhD Student

Computational Humor, NLP, Social Science

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Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant

PhD Student

Multilingual NLP, AI Fairness, Dataset Artifacts, Robustness

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Eddie L. Ungless

Phd Student

Intersectional identity theory, Predictive bias, Algorithmic justice

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Amr Keleg

PhD Student

Model generalization to dialects, Interpretability and analysis, Arabic NLP

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Steve Wilson

Alumni

Natural language processing, Computational social science

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Abeer AlDayel

Recent Graduate

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Lushi Chen

Recent graduate

Galleries

Photos from our Team Away Day at a Go Karting centre

Photos from our Team Away Day at Loch Lomond