Bjorn Ross
About
I am Reader (Associate Professor) in Computational Social Science at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. In my research, I develop and use computational methods from natural language processing and artificial intelligence, social network analysis and agent-based modelling to study social media and related technologies. A key focus of my research is to explore different aspects of social media, such as misinformation, hate speech, and the malicious use of automation (bots). I also examine issues with these methods including data collection practices, fairness, bias and AI ethics. At Edinburgh, I am the Deputy Director of the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, Co-Director of the SMASH group, and part of the management team of the CDT in NLP. I also help run the Social Data Science Hub. Before working here, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where I also completed my PhD. I am an Associate Editor of Business & Information Systems Engineering, in the Senior Programme Committee of ICWSM, and was Ethics Co-Chair of ACL 2025.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Measuring the Reliability of Hate Speech Annotations: The Case of the European Refugee Crisis
Year: 2016
Citations: 587
Venue: NLP4CMC III: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing
Latest Recorded Paper
Validating Automatic Evaluation of Controllable Counterspeech Generation: Rankings Matter More Than Scores
Year: 2026
Citations: 0
Venue: Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the
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