Edwin Simpson
Scholar

Edwin Simpson

Google Scholar ID: SJIesOAAAAAJ
University of Bristol
NLPMachine Learninginteractive machine learningcrowdsourcingBayesian methods
Citations & Impact
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Citations
1,138
 
H-index
15
 
i10-index
21
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
46
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Involved in the project “Medfluencer: a socio-semantic network analysis method to investigate how medical influencers affect health discourse on social media”
  • Collaborated with industry partners such as Man-AHL and Aleph Insights, as well as research organizations like The Zooniverse
Research Experience
  • Postdoc at the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) lab at TU Darmstadt, Germany, from 2016 to 2020
  • Senior Lecturer at the School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, University of Bristol, since 2020
  • Responsible for teaching new courses on Text Analytics, Dialogue and Narrative
  • Member of the Intelligent Systems research group at Bristol
Education
  • DPhil, University of Oxford - Machine Learning Research group
  • MEng, prior to HP Labs
Background
  • Research interests include natural language processing (NLP) and interactive machine learning. Focuses on learning an NLP model by interacting with a user or aggregating unreliable annotations from multiple sources. Particularly interested in applications in disaster response, disaster risk reduction, and sustainability.