Scholar
Harith Alani
Google Scholar ID: Wi4cDJIAAAAJ
Professor at the Knowledge Media institute, Open University, UK
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,190
H-index
30
i10-index
67
Publications
20
Co-authors
33
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Involved in several significant research projects, including the NoBIAS project, which aims to develop bias-free AI decision-making methods considering ethical and legal factors; also involved in countering creative information manipulation with explainable AI.
Research Experience
- Professor and Director of the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) at The Open University, UK, with over 25 years of experience in research and innovation in social computing. Currently coordinating the ClimateSense project, which tackles climate misinformation by analyzing the geopolitical dissemination of false claims about climate issues. Over the years, has led numerous international research initiatives such as CIMPLE (funded by CHEST-ERA) on misinformation explainability, HERoS (EU) on health misinformation, Co-Inform (Horizon Europe) on community resilience to misinformation, and COMRADES (H2020) on misinformation in crisis contexts.
Background
- Research interests include social data science, computational social science, social media analysis, online behavior analysis, web science, semantic web, and online misinformation. Committed to interdisciplinary research, aiming to develop practical and innovative computational solutions to complex societal challenges, and actively collaborates with professionals and organizations worldwide to achieve this goal.
Miscellany
- Has links to Google Scholar page and personal LinkedIn page on the personal homepage.
