I am an Assistant Professor at the College of Information Science and Technology, Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST). Before joining QUST, I was a Research Associate for the SoBigData++ project and worked on the detection of online abuse, disinformation, and explainable AI (XAI) at GATE NLP group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield.

I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield in 2021 with a thesis titled “Detecting Journalistic Framing and Attitudes on News Reporting about Climate Change”. My PhD was funded by the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, where I was also a Grantham Scholar.

Research interests: In-context learning, Applications in LLMs/LVLMs.

🎓I am ACTIVELY looking for students to conduct research in the area of data mining, machine learning, social computing, and natural language processing. Interested students please feel free to drop me an email with your CV.

News

[02/2025] Congrats to Jiyan won 1st in Hindi and 2nd in Russian on SemEval 2025 Task 10!
[02/2025] Congrats to Youzheng achieved 5th on Monolingual and 7th on Crosslingual tracks in SemEval 2025 Task 7!
[01/2025] Congrats to Xiaoman successfully gave an oral presentation at Multimedia Modelling 2025 in Naro, Japan!
[1/2025] Our paper “Cross-modal augmentation for few-shot multimodal fake news detection” published at the Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence.