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PhD Support Group Member

Published: January 01, 2018

Workshop: PhD support Group Sessions
Venue: Computing Science School, Glasgow University
Location: Glasgow, The UK
My responsibilities was to:
- One of the founders/organisers of the mental health support group for PhD students at computing Science school, Glasgow University.
- One of the runners of the weekly sessions to support the PhD students.

Python Instructor

Published: July 01, 2018

Workshop: Programming Workshop in Africa (PWA)
Venue: Ibadaan University
Location: Ibadaan, Nigeria
My responsibilities was to:
- Preparing course material
- Teaching Python (Basic programming)
- Teaching Data science toolkit (Pandas, Numpy and MatplotLib)

Web Development Instructor

Published: September 01, 2018

Workshop: Code First Girls
Location: Glasgow, The UK
My responsibilities was to:
- Teaching HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap and JQuery
- Teaching Github
- Teaching UX-Design

PhD Support Group Member

Published: January 01, 2021

Activity: SICSA PhD Peer Support Group
Location: Scotland, The UK
More info here

Member of the students’ mental health advisory board

Published: January 01, 2022

Activity: Students’ mental health advisory board
Venue: The University of the West of Scotland
Location: Paisley, The UK
My responsibilities was to:
- the advisory board meets once a month to discuss strategies to support the students’ mental health.

publications

Fraud, Plot, or Collective Delusion? Social Media and Perceptions of Electoral Misconduct in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum

Published in Election Law Journal, 2017

Teargas, Water Cannons and Twitter: A case study on detecting protest repression events in Turkey 2013

Published in 2020 International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts held in conjunction with the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (Text2Story@ECIR 2020), 2020

Does BERT Pay Attention To Cyberbullying?

Published in SIGIR 2021, 2021

When the Timeline Meets the Pipeline: A Survey on Automated Cyberbullying Detection

Published in IEEE Access, 2021

Darkness can not drive out darkness: Investigating Bias in Hate SpeechDetection Models

Published in SRW @ ACL 2022, 2022

A Comparative Study on Word Embeddings in Social NLP Tasks

Published in SocialNLP workshop @ NAACL 2022, 2022

SOS:Systematic Offensive Stereotyping Bias in Word Embeddings

Published in COLING 2022, 2022

On the Origins of Bias in NLP through the Lens of the Jim Code

Published in Pre-print: arxiv, 2023

On Bias and Fairness in NLP: How to have a fairer text classification?

Published in Pre-print: arxiv, 2023

Systematic Offensive Stereotyping (SOS) Bias in Language Models

Published in Pre-print: arxiv, 2023

Thesis Distillation: Investigating The Impact of Bias in NLP Models on Hate Speech Detection

Published in The Big Picture Workshop at EMNLP 2023, 2023

struggles

Rejection 2020

Published: April 20, 2020

All the rejections I received in 2020:

ECIR 2021 conference

Rejections in 2021

Published: March 19, 2024

All the rejections I received in 2021:

WOAH, June 2021
IEEE Access, May 2021
ACM Surveys, Jan 2021

Rejections in 2022

Published: March 19, 2024

All the rejections I received in 2022:

ACL 2022
NAACL 2022
I applied for an internship at the FATE group, Microsoft Research, but did not hear back.
I applied for an internship at DeepMind Research, but did not hear back.
I applied for an internship at FAIR group, Facebook Research, but did not hear back.

Rejections in 2023

Published: March 19, 2024

All the rejections I received in 2023:

I submitted two papers to TACL and both of them got rejected with an option of re-submission after a year.
I applied for an internship at FAIR group, Facebook Research but did not get an interview.
Have a couple of interviews for an internship at Google but did not work out.

talks

Teargas, Water Cannons and Twitter: A case study on detecting protest repression events in Turkey 2013

Published: April 14, 2020

venue: 2020 International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts held in conjunction with the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (Text2Story@ECIR 2020)