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Whilst working on the ITA Project - a collaborative research programme between the UK MoD and the US Army Research Laboratory - over the last few years, one of my primary areas has been to research around controlled natural languages, and working with Cardiff University and IBM UK’s Emerging … Read more (5 minute read)

I recently received confirmation of my completed PhD! I submitted my thesis in May 2014, passed my viva in September and returned my final corrections in December. I was examined internally by Dr Pete Burnap and also by Dr Jeremy Pitt of Imperial College London. The whole PhD was an amazing … Read more (1 minute read)

Last week, I was invited to give a seminar to the Agents and Intelligent Systems group in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London. I gave an overview of my PhD research conducted over the past two or three years, from my initial research into retweet behaviours and propagation … Read more (1 minute read)

Last week I visited Karlsruhe, in Germany, to give a presentation accompanying a recently-accepted paper. The paper, “Inferring the Interesting Tweets in Your Network”, was in the proceedings of the Workshop on Analyzing Social Media for the Benefit of Society (Society 2.0), which was … Read more (1 minute read)

Each January the School of Computer Science hosts a poster day in order for the research students to demonstrate their current work to other research students, research staff and undergraduates. The event lets members of the department see what other research is being done outside of their own group … Read more (1 minute read)

I gave a seminar on my current research phase. I summarised my work over the past few months; in particular, the work on the network structure of Twitter, the way in which tweets propagate through different network types, and the implications of this. I discussed the importance of precision and … Read more (1 minute read)