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Professor and Director of the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) at The Open University, UK, with over 25 years of experience in research and innovation in social computing. His recent work focuses on online harms, particularly the spread and impact of misinformation. Prof Alani currently coordinates the ClimateSense project, which tackles climate misinformation by analysing the geopolitical dissemination of false claims about climate issues. Over the years, Prof Alani has led numerous international research initiatives, including CIMPLE (funded by CHEST-ERA) on misinformation explainability, HERoS (EU) on health misinformation, Co-Inform (Horizon Europe) on community resilience to misinformation, and COMRADES (H2020) on misinformation in crisis contexts. Committed to interdisciplinary research, he aims to develop practical and innovative computational solutions to complex societal challenges and actively collaborates with professionals and organisations worldwide to achieve this goal.
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social data science, computational social science, social media analysis, online behaviour analysis, web science, semantic web, online misinformation.
