Meet the Team

Björn Ross

Reader (Associate Professor)

Tuğrulcan Elmas

Lecturer

Walid Magdy

Professor

Zeerak Talat

Chancellor's Fellow

Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya

Postdoctoral Scholar

Social Media Manipulation, Targeted Marketing, NLP, Responsible AI

Sandrine Chausson

PhD Student

Computational Sociology, Natural Language Processing, Social Network Analysis, Urban Data Science

Yi (Wendy) Zheng

PhD student

NLG, Hate Speech & Counterspeech, Social Science

Mahmoud Fawzi

PhD Student

Misinformation, Digital Religion, Social Media

Zahra Bokaee

PhD Student

NLP, Computational Social Science, Computational Linguistics

Artemis Deligianni

PhD Student

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

Cyndie Demeocq

PhD Student

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

Benazir Pratamawaty

PhD Student

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

Tom Bidewell

PhD Student

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

Alessandra Terranova

PhD Student

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

Morgan Frodsham

PhD Student

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

Nataliya Stepanova

PhD Student

Natural Language Processing, Automated Fact Checking

Onat Özdemir

PhD Student

Multimodal Learning, Explainable AI, Misinformation

Mugdha Pandya

PhD Student

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

Duncan Reid

PhD Student

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

Riyadh Alnasser

PhD Student

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

Maria Wolters

Christopher Barrie

Youcef Benkhedda

Sabyasachi Kamila

Guillermo Romero Moreno

Dilara Kekulluoglu

Xue Li

Youssef Al Hariri

Alexander Robertson

Silviu Oprea

Mohamed Bahgat

Ibrahim Abu Farha

Julie-Anne Meaney

Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant

Agostina Calabrese

Eddie Ungless

Amr Keleg

Abeer AlDayel

Lushi Chen

Steve Wilson