Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe
Lancaster University, UK

Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe is a Lecturer at the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University where he works with the UCREL NLP Group, Data Science Institute and Security Lancaster. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wolverhampton, where he was affiliated with the Research Group in Computational Linguistics. His research focuses on developing Machine Learning (ML) approaches for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, particularly emphasising NLP for Social Good. His work has various applications such as machine translation, social media analytics (i.e. hate speech detection, misinformation detection) and text adaptation.