Dr. Maria Liakata

Biography

Maria Liakata is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and the Centre for Urban Science and Progress at New York University. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford, focusing on learning pragmatic knowledge from text. Her research interests encompass text mining, natural language processing (NLP) with applications in biomedicine, sentiment analysis, and the integration of multimodal heterogeneous data. Maria’s work has significantly contributed to the advancement of knowledge discovery through corpora and the automation of scientific experimentation. She has published widely in interdisciplinary venues within NLP, focusing on topics such as emotion sensing through heterogeneous mobile phone data and the spread of rumors as part of an EU project where she served as co-investigator. Maria has received multiple awards, including the IBM Faculty Award, and is leading a project funded by the Warwick Innovation Fund aimed at diagnosing and monitoring dementia through text analysis. She was also an Early Career Fellow at the Leverhulme Trust from 2010 to 2013, specializing in reasoning scientific articles. Her research groups focus on Intelligent Adaptive Systems and Computational Biology.

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