Gareth Tyson has had 2x ACM Web Conference papers accepted this year:

1. Yiming Zhu, Zhizhuo Yin, Gareth Tyson, Ehsan-ul Haq, Paul Lee and Pan Hui. APT-Pipe: An Automatic Prompt-Tuning Tool for Social Computing Data Annotation. In ACM Web Conference (WWW), Singapore (2024).
2. Jintao Huang, Pengcheng Xia, Jiefeng Li, Kai Ma, Gareth Tyson, Xiapu Luo, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou, Wei Cai and Haoyu Wang. Unveiling the Paradox of NFT Prosperity. In ACM Web Conference (WWW), Singapore (2024). 

The lab have had a sweep of success at International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) this year, with four papers accepted:

1. Yupeng He, Yimeng Gu, Ravi Shekhar, Ignacio Castro and Gareth Tyson. Making the Pick: Understanding Professional Editor Comment Curation in Online News. In 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Buffalo, NY (2024).
2. Yimeng Zhu, Ehsan-Ul Haq, Gareth Tyson, Lik-Hang Lee, Yuyang Wang and Pan Hui. A Study of Partisan News Sharing in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. In 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Buffalo, NY (2024).
3. Matthew Barnes, Mladen Karan, Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Richard Clegg and Matthew Purver. Temporal Network Analysis of Email Communication Patterns in a Long Standing Hierarchy. In 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Buffalo, NY (2024).
4. Vibhor Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry, Ahmed Abdelmoniem, Gareth Tyson and Ignacio Castro. Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks. In 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Buffalo, NY (2024).

Gareth Tyson & Ignacio Castro published a paper, Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration. In ACM Internet Measurement Conference at the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC).

5 new WWW papers by Gareth Tyson and 2 by Ignacio Castro

DSNmod, funded by Rephrain (National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online) tackles the challenges of decentralised moderation by leveraging federated learning.

• Dennis Trautwein, Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Will Scott, Moritz Schubotz, Bela Gipp and Yiannis Psaras. Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web. In ACM SIGCOMM, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]
• Jinyang Li, Zhenyu Li, Ri Lu, Kai Xiao, Songlin Li, Jufeng Chen, Jingyu Yang, Chunli Zong, Aiyun Chen, Qinghua Wu, Chen Sun, Gareth Tyson and Hongqiang Harry Liu. LiveNet: A Low-Latency Video Transport Network for Large-Scale Live Streaming. In ACM SIGCOMM, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 19%] [PDF]

AP4L (Adaptive PETs to Protect & emPower People during Life Transitions) is a 3-year program of interdisciplinary research, centring on the online privacy & vulnerability challenges that people face when going through major life transitions. Our central goal is to develop privacy-by-design technologies to protect & empower people during these transitions. Our work is driven by a narrative that will be familiar to most people. Life often “just happens”, leading people to overlook their core privacy and online safety needs. For instance, somebody undergoing cancer treatment may be less likely to finesse their privacy setting on social media when discussing the topic. Similarly, an individual undergoing gender transition may be unaware of how their online activities in the past may shape the treatment into the future. This project will build the scientific and theoretical foundations to explore these challenges, as well as design and evaluate three core innovations that will address the identified challenges. AP4L will introduce a step-change, making online safety and privacy as painless and seamless as possible during life transitions

1. Jinyang Li, Zhenyu Li, Qinghua Wu, Gareth Tyson. On Uploading Behavior and Optimizations of a Mobile Live Streaming Service. In 41st IEEE Joint Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) (2022). [Acceptance Rate: 19%]

Anaobi Ishaku Hassan, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Haris Bin Zia, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nishanth Sastry and Gareth Tyson. Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case. In 17th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Munich, Germany (2021). [Acceptance Rate: 22%]