Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe
Lecturer in Security and Protection ScienceResearch Overview
My research focuses on developing Machine Learning (ML) approaches for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, particularly emphasising NLP for Social Good. My work has various applications such as machine translation, social media analytics (i.e. hate speech detection, misinformation detection) and text adaptation.
I served as an area chair in LREC-COLING 2024. I am in the programming committee of major NLP/ ML conferences. I served as the research technical track chair in . I am the programme committee co-chair in . I have organised multiple shared tasks such as HASOC and MLSP.
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Prize (including medals and awards)
Prize (including medals and awards)
Prize (including medals and awards)
SCC (Data Science), UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language
- SCC (Data Science)
- UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language