GavinAbercrombie

I’m an assistant professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, where I’m working on mitigation of online harms in the Interaction Lab.

I’m part funded by the EPSRC projects Equally Safe Online (EP/W025493/1).

I previously worked on the EPSRC project Designing Conversational Assistants to Reduce Gender Bias (EP/T023767/1).

I’m an organiser of the workshops NLPerspectives and CounterSpeech for Online Harms.

You can find my publications here.

You can find my CV here

Contact:

email: g.abercrombie@hw.ac.uk

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News:

September 2024

Our paper ‘Mirages’ was cited by the AI Safety Institute as motivation for a survey on public attitudes to anthropomorphic technology.

I was invited to take part in a forum on combating disinformation and hate speech, organised by the Spanish government’s Ministry of National Security at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

July 2024

I gave my first keynote talk at the Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance PhD Conference, University of Aberdeen.

June

My MSc student Aashima Poudhar presented her paper on counterspeech strategies at WOAH.

I presented our survey and how-to guide on NLP for counterspeech with Helena Bonaldi at NAACL in Mexico City.