- 21 October 2020: I am on the Programme Committee of NAACL 2021.
- 11 September 2020: I am now a Fellow of the HEA (FHEA).
- 4 September 2020: There is another exciting job opportunity to work with me on NLP-related problems.
- 1 September 2020: I am on the Programme Committee of COLING 2020.
- 26 August 2020: There is an exciting opportunity if you want to work closely with me. Here are the job details.
- 14 August 2020: I am on the Programme Committee of AAAI-2021.
- 26 July 2020: I am on the Reviewer Board of Algorithms.
- 20 July 2020: We have been awarded an Essex Innovation Voucher with a job search startup company. I am the PI on the project.
- 18 July 2020: I am on the Programme Committee of EACL 2021.
- 08 July 2020: Depression detection using multi-modal features with a hybrid deep learning model is now online. This work is done in collarabotion with researchers at UTS.
- 08 July 2020: Why not put it here to showcase that this page is regularly updated!
- 07 July 2020: Pre-print of our latest paper covering COVID-19 and depression is now online. This work has been conducted in collaboration with researchers at UTS.
- 07 July 2020: We have an exciting new Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) proposal accepted which has John Woods and Haider Raza.
- 03 July 2020: My PhD student, Antonio, is conducting study about the use of crowdsourcing for author name disambiguation and entity matching in heterogeneous bibliographic networks. Your participation takes around 5 minutes to complete. Please register and participate.
- 03 July 2020: I am now co-supervising Hamad A Zogan at the University of Technology Sydney along with Prof. Guandong Xu.
- 29 June 2020: I have passed my PGCHE with Distinctions in two modules.
- 12 June 2020: We have secured an INESC TEC’s Internal Seed Projects grant. The grant has my PhD student, Antonio, whom I am co-supervising as a Co-PI while I am acting as one of the collaborators from the UK. The aim of this project is to incorporate crowd-AI hybrids into the INESC TEC’s internal system called Authenticus. A total of £32,248 will also be used for hiring a UTAD student as a developer.
- 10 June 2020: I am on the reviewer board of Information.
- 6 June 2020: I am on the Programme Committee of WSDM-2021.
- 25 May 2020: I have teamed up with some of the world’s leading researchers with complemetary research expertise and have proposed a journal special issue surrounding COVID-19 and its effect on social lives. Please find call for papers here.
- 17 April 2020: I am on the programme committee of CBMS 2020.
- 15 April 2020: My visiting PhD student Antonio has been awarded the PARSUK Xperience scholarship.
- 8 April 2020: I am leading a £350k project with a company in London for the next three years.
- 26 March 2020: I am on the Programme Committees of AACL-IJCNLP 2020 and EMNLP 2020
- 16 March 2020: I am serving on the reviewer panel in Computational Linguistics journal.
- 16 March 2020: I am one of the Co-PIs in the TT-Education’s KTP grant.
- 16 March 2020: Welcome Mozhgan Talebpour as my new RA.
- 16 March 2020: Welcome Mahsa Abazari Kia as my PhD student. Mahsa is funded by BT.
- 16 March 2020: I am serving on the programme committees of CIKM-2020 and IJCAI-2020.
- 03 February 2020: My student’s full paper has been accepted in CSCWD 2020.
- 02 January 2020: My student’s paper is now competing for the Best Paper Award at HICSS-2020 in Hawaii.
- 25 December 2019: I am one of the Programme Committee members in SIGIR 2020.
- 18 December 2019: I am one of the Programme Committee members in ACL 2020.
- 18 December 2019: I have left the University of Kent and will soon start in the University of Essex.
