Member
Harith Alani
KMi Director
+44 (0)1908 659399
Professor of Web Science at the Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, and leader of the Social Data Science group. Previously to joining KMi, I was a senior research fellow at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. Published more than 150 scientific papers, and Co-ordinated several international projects. Check my homepage for further detail (http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/harith/)
Keys: social data science, social media analysis, computational social science, online behaviour analysis, social informatics
Team: Gregoire Burel, Tracie Farrell, Miriam Fernandez, Angel Pavon Perez, Lara Piccolo, Paula Reyero Lobo, Ali Tavakoli
News
02 Oct 2023
26 Sep 2023
05 Jun 2023
HEROS Project Concludes Final Stakeholder Conference, Showcasing Research in the Context of COVID-19
11 May 2023
09 May 2023
Publications
Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2023) Knowledge-Grounded Target Group Language Recognition in Hate Speech, 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Leipzig, Germany
Burel, G. and Alani, H. (2023) The Fact-Checking Observatory: Reporting the Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-checks on Social Media, HT '23: Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Rome, Italy
Mensio, M., Burel, G., Farrell, T. and Alani, H. (2023) MisinfoMe: A Tool for Longitudinal Assessment of Twitter Accounts' Sharing of Misinformation, UMAP '23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Limassol Cyprus
Pavon Perez, A., Fernandez, M., Al-Madfai, H., Burel, G. and Alani, H. (2023) Tracking Machine Learning Bias Creep in Traditional and Online Lending Systems with Covariance Analysis, WebSci '23: 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023, Austin, TX, USA
Tavakoli, A., Alani, H. and Burel, G. (2023) On the Readability of Misinformation in Comparison to the Truth, Text2Story 2023, Ireland
