Professor in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London

Honorary Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick

Maria Liakata holds a UKRI/EPSRC Turing AI fellowship (2019-2025) on creating time sensitive sensors from user-generated language and heterogeneous content. The research in this fellowship involves developing new methods for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and multi-modal data to allow the creation of longitudinal personalized language monitoring.

Maria is also the PI of projects on language sensing for dementia monitoring and diagnosis, opinion summarisation and rumour verification from social media. At the Alan Turing Institute she founded and co-leads the NLP and data science for mental health special interest groups. She has published over 150 papers on topics including sentiment analysis, semantics, summarisation, rumour verification, resources and evaluation and biomedical NLP. She is action editor for the ACL rolling review and regularly holds senior roles in major NLP conferences.