The paper “Towards generalisable hate speech detection: a review on obstacles and solutions” by Wenjie Yin and Arkaitz Zubiaga has been published in PeerJ Computer Science

Paper “Characterising Usage Patterns and Privacy Risks of a Home Security Camera Service” by Dr. Gareth Tyson and collaborators has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. This is the premier journal for mobile computing with an impact factor of 5.112. You can also listen to Dr. Gareth Tyson talking about it in BBC4 Inside Science!

Our colleague Gareth Tyson received the Faculty Research Award. You can read more about it here or check his research at his site.

Paper “Tracking Counterfeit Cryptocurrency End-to-End” by Dr. Gareth Tyson and colleagues at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, Zhejiang University and HKPU has been accepted at ACM SIGMETRICS’21! This is the top conference for systems performance evaluation with an acceptance rate of 16%.

Zubiaga, A. (2020). Exploiting Class Labels to Boost Performance on Embedding-based Text Classification. Proceedings of CIKM.

Zubiaga, A., & Jiang, A. (2020). Early detection of social media hoaxes at scale. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 14(4), 1-23.

Although EOSIO is the first widely adopted high throughput Delegated Proof of Stake system with millions of accounts and billions of transactions, little is known about its ecosystem. This paper performs a large-scale measurement study of the EOSIO blockchain and its associated DApps, develops techniques to automatically detect bots and fraudulent activity finding thousands of bot accounts (over 30% of the accounts in the platform) and real-world attacks (301 attack accounts): 80 attack accounts identified have been confirmed by DApp teams, causing 828,824 EOS tokens losses (roughly 2.6 million US$).

Yuheng Huang, Haoyu Wang, Lei Wu, Gareth Tyson, Xiapu Luo, Run Zhang, Xuanzhe Liu, Gang Huang and Xuxian Jiang. Understanding (Mis)Behavior on the EOSIO Blockchain. In ACM SIGMETRICS, Boston, MA (2020). [Acceptance Rate: 15%] [PDF]