Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Dr Farhana Ferdousi Liza has joined as a Lecturer in Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in September 2021. Her primary research interests and expertise lie in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science. She has published articles including in the AAAI, EMNLP, and PLOS ONE. Before joining the UEA, she worked as a researcher at ESRC Business and Local Government Data Research Centre at the University of Essex where she worked with external stakeholders to add or improve a data science stack in their decision-making process and developed Continuing Professional Development (CPD) modules in Data Science for ESNEFT (one of the NHS Trusts). She also provided training to the UK public sector professionals including NHS and Police. Her PhD study was funded by the University of Kent's JILP Endowment Scholarship, and later she was awarded the Sciences Postgraduate Research Prize for excellent progress which was featured in the University of Kent’s blog post. She was selected for an internship at The Alan Turing Institute and later her collaborative research (with Turing fellows) on semantic profiling was featured in its blog post. She has five years of higher education teaching experience in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs in the UK, USA, and Bangladesh.
Areas of Expertise
Data Science, Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP). Machine learning research includes analysis of deep learning models (e.g., language models), improving the robustness from adversarial attacks, and designing AI model evaluation techniques. NLP problems include representation learning, information extraction, text summarization, question answering.
For data science applications, she is interested in solving problems arising in healthcare (specifically mental healthcare), the public sector, and social media (e.g., fake news and fact checking). Her works include the incorporation of deep learning and natural language processing in computational social science.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 2 Finished
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ASSIST(AI System Support In Service Triage): Exploring the role ofartificial intelligence in supporting triaging decisionsas part of a new Integrated Front Door for Children and Young People Mental Health Services across Norfolk and Waveney
Bianchi, B., Church, A., Liza, F. F., Wilson, J., Gee, B., Clarke, T., Spencer, F., Roberts, J., Mann, R., Bailey, A. & Hand, J.
1/08/22 → 31/03/23
Project: HSCP Project
Research output
- 4 Conference contribution
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Capturing Changes in Mood Over Time in Longitudinal Data Using Ensemble Methodologies
Bucur, A-M., Jang, H. & Liza, F. F., Jul 2022, Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology. Zirikly, A., Atzil-Slonim, D., Liakata, M., Bedrick, S., Desmet, B., Ireland, M., Lee, A., MacAvaney, S., Purver, M., Resnik, R. & Yates, A. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 205-212 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Challenges of Enforcing Regulations in Artificial Intelligence Act --- Analyzing Quantity Requirement in Data and Data Governance
Liza, F. F., 1 May 2022, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 2022 1st International Workshop on Imagining the AI Landscape After the AI Act (In conjunction with the first International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence). CEUR-WS, 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Event Causality Identification with Causal News Corpus - Shared Task 3, CASE 2022
Tan, F. A., Hettiarachchi, H., Hürriyetoğlu, A., Caselli, T., Uca, O., Liza, F. F. & Oostdijk, N., 2022, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE). Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 195 - 208 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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The Causal News Corpus: Annotating causal relations in event sentences from news
Tan, F. A., Hürriyetoğlu, A., Caselli, T., Oostdijk, N., Nomoto, T., Hettiarachchi, H., Ameer, I., Uca, O., Liza, F. F. & Hu, T., 2022, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 2298–2310 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open AccessFile5 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
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Mental Health Researchers in Discovering Active Ingredients in longitudinal Datasets using Artificial Intelligence (MHR-DAIDAI)
Hosein, A. (Recipient), Balloo, K. (Recipient), Liza, Farhana Ferdousi (Recipient), Conway, A. (Recipient) & Jilbert, C. (Recipient), Aug 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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The 21st Academic Practice and Technology Conference, 2023
Farhana Ferdousi Liza (Speaker)
30 Jun 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Society and the Public Good: Technologies, Applications and Governance
Farhana Ferdousi Liza (Speaker)
3 May 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Invited talk
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An expert workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI) controversies
Farhana Ferdousi Liza (Participant)
10 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop or seminar
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5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text
Farhana Ferdousi Liza (Organiser)
7 Dec 2022 → 8 Dec 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop or seminar
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PLoS One (Journal)
Farhana Ferdousi Liza (Peer reviewer)
28 Jun 2022 → 8 Jul 2022Activity: Editorial work › Publication peer-review