Research Outputs
3CL Foundation, Grech, A., & Elliott, K. (2023, May 3). Young people and information: A manifesto. Industry report and collaboration, 3CL Foundation, Malta. https://www.3cl.org/young-people-and-information-manifesto/
Arnau-González, P., Serrano-Mamolar, A., Katsigiannis, S., & Arevalillo-Herráez, M. (2023). Towards automatic tutoring of custom student-stated math word problems. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36336-8_99
Arnau-González, P., Serrano-Mamolar, A., Katsigiannis, S., & Arevalillo-Herráez, M. (2023). Towards automatic tutoring of custom student-stated math word problems. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Tokyo, Japan.
Arnau-González, P., Serrano-Mamolar, A., Katsigiannis, S., Althobaiti, T., & Arevalillo-Herráez, M. (2023). Toward automatic tutoring of math word problems in intelligent tutoring systems. IEEE Access, 11, 67030-67039. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2023.3290478
Bermudez-Villalva, A., Mehrnezhad, M., & Toreini, E. (In press). Measuring online hate on 4chan using pre-trained deep learning models. IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, 2025.
Chambers, D., & Olabode, S. (2024). Smart home harms: An inquiry into smart technology-enabled domestic abuse to explore design, legal, ethical, and policy responses. 10th European Communication Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 24-27 September 2024.
Chambers, D., Olabode, S., Owens, R., Durrant, A., Vlachokyriakos, V., Zhang, V. N., & Farrand, B. (n.d.). The domestic frontline of cyber-insecurities and tech abuse: Legal and policy responses to smart home harms in the UK. Information, Communication & Society. (Manuscript submitted for publication).
Cheok, N. I., & Mehrnezhad, M. (In press). Security and privacy evaluation of IP cameras on Shodan. Security Standardisation Research Conference (SSR), 2025.
Clarke, J. M., Mehrnezhad, M., & Toreini, E. (2024). Invisible, unreadable, and inaudible cookie notices: An evaluation of cookie notices for users with visual impairments. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 17(1), 1-39.
Cook, S., Mehrnezhad, M., & Toreini, E. (2024). Bluetooth security analysis of general and intimate health IoT devices and apps: The case of FemTech. International Journal of Information Security. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-024-00883-3
Coopamootoo, K. P. L., & Ng, M. (2023). “Un-equal online safety?” A gender analysis of security and privacy protection advice and behaviour patterns. Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium. https://doi.org/978-1-939133-37-3
Elliott, K., & Copilah-Ali, J. (2024). Implementing corporate digital responsibility (CDR): Tackling wicked problems for the digital era—Pilot study insights. Organization Dynamics, 54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2024.101040
Elliott, K., Copilah-Ali, J., & Ng, M. (2025, in print). Opportunities for digital banking: Lived experiences of UK financially vulnerable customers. The Journal of Digital Banking.
Elsafoury, F., & Katsigiannis, S. (2023). On bias and fairness in NLP: Investigating the impact of bias and debiasing in language models on the fairness of toxicity detection. arXiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.12829
Elsafoury, F., Wilson, S. R., Katsigiannis, S., & Ramzan, N. (2022). SOS: Systematic offensive stereotyping bias in word embeddings. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1263–1274, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.108/
Farrand, B. (2024). How do we understand online harms? The impact of conceptual divides on regulatory divergence between the Online Safety Act and Digital Services Act. Journal of Media Law, 16(2), 240-262. https://doi.org/10.1080/17577632.2024.2357463
Farrand, B. (In press). ‘There are no safe spaces anymore’: Ubiquitous connectivity and the regulation of technology-facilitated misogyny and gender-based violence. In N. Godden-Rasul & L. Kula (Eds.), Research handbook on gender, violence and law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Farrand, B. (In press). Complex online harms and assuring user agency: Content moderation and agency by design. In K. Barker & O. Jurasz (Eds.), Routledge handbook of social media, law and society. Oxon: Routledge.
Farrand, B. (Under review). Co-regulatory principles for system safety: Agency by design. Computer Law & Security Review.
Kolomeets, M., Wu, H., Shi, L., & Van Moorsel, A. (2024). The face of deception: The impact of AI-generated photos on malicious social bots. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSS.2024.3461328
Lam, C. F. D., Wu, H., Pourmirza, Z., & van Moorsel, A. (2024). Exploring federated learning for energy consumption forecasting in smart homes. Presented at the 8th IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration, 2024.
Malviya, S., & Katsigiannis, S. (2024). Evidence retrieval for fact verification using multi-stage reranking. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 (pp. 7295–7308). Miami, FL, USA. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.428
Malviya, S., & Katsigiannis, S. (2024). SK_DU Team: Cross-encoder-based evidence retrieval and question generation with improved prompt for the AVeriTeC Shared Task. In Proceedings of the 7th Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER), EMNLP 2024 (pp. 99–107). Miami, FL, USA. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.fever-1.11
Malviya, S., Arnau-González, P., Arevalillo-Herráez, M., & Katsigiannis, S. (2025). SKDU at De-Factify 4.0: Natural language features for AI-generated text detection. In Proceedings of the De-Factify 4.0 Workshop, 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, PA, USA. https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3488998
Malviya, S., Bhowmik, N., & Katsigiannis, S. (2025). SKDU at De-Factify 4.0: Vision transformer with data augmentation for AI-generated image detection. In Proceedings of the De-Factify 4.0 Workshop, 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, PA, USA. https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3488967
Malviya, S., Owens, R., Copilah-Ali, J., Elliot, K., Farrand, B., Neesham, C., Shi, L., Vlachokyriakos, V., Katsigiannis, S., & van Moorsel, A. (2023). AGENCY—written evidence (LLM0028) for House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee inquiry: Large language models. House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee.
Mehrnezhad, M., & Almeida, T. (2023). “My sex-related data is more sensitive than my financial data and I want the same level of security and privacy”: User risk perceptions and protective actions in female-oriented technologies. Proceedings of the 2023 European Symposium on Usable Security.
Mehrnezhad, M., Van Der Merwe, T., & Catt, M. (2024). Mind the FemTech gap: Regulation failings and exploitative systems. Frontiers in the Internet of Things, 3, 1296599.
Olabode, S., & Chambers, D. (2024). Tech abuse: Smart home-facilitated coercive control. 2nd CyberMi2 Research Day, 2024: Cybersecurity and Privacy for Minority and Minoritized People, 24 May 2024, The Exchange, University of Birmingham, UK.
Olabode, S., Owens, R., Zhang, V. N., Copilah-Ali, J., Kolomeets, M., Wu, H., Malviya, S., Markeviciute, K., Spiliotopoulos, T., Neesham, C., Shi, L., & Chambers, D. (2023). Complex online harms and the smart home: A scoping review. Future Generation Computer Systems, 149, 664-678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2023.08.019
Owens, R., Copilah-Ali, J., Kolomeets, M., Malviya, S., Markeviciute, K., Olabode, S., Spiliotopoulos, T., Wu, H., Zhang, V. N., Coopamootoo, K., Durrant, A., Elliott, K., Katsigiannis, S., Neesham, S., Shi, L., & Farrand, B. (2023). Reimagining AI governance: A response by AGENCY to the UK Government’s White Paper AI Regulation. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4551757
Owens, R., Zhang, V. N., Malviya, S., Kalameyets, M., Durrant, A., Elliot, K., Farrand, B., Katsigiannis, S., Neesham, C., & Shi, L. (2024). AGENCY—written evidence (FON0017) for House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee inquiry: The future of news: Impartiality, trust, and technology. House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee.
Rusnachenko, N., Liang, H., Kalameyets, M., & Shi, L. (2024). ARElight: Context sampling of large texts for deep learning relation extraction. In Goharian, N., et al. (Eds.), Advances in information retrieval. ECIR 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 14612). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_23
Shaw, P., Price, R., Elliott, K., Copilah-Ali, J., Huntingford, J., & Ionescu, O. (2024). Corporate digital responsibility (CDR): Securing our digital futures. IEEE White Paper, Standard P7010.1. https://store.accuristech.com/ieee/standards/ieee-white-paper?product_id=2922055
Spiliotopoulos, T., Sheik, A. T., Gottardello, D., & Dover, R. M. (2023). Onboarding citizens to digital identity systems. International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy (CADE 2023). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.13511
Toreini, E., Mehrnezhad, M., & Van Moorsel, A. (2023). Fairness as a service (FaaS): Verifiable and privacy-preserving fairness auditing of machine learning systems. International Journal of Information Security. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-023-00774-z
Toreini, E., Mehrnezhad, M., & Van Moorsel, A. (2023). Verifiable fairness: Privacy-preserving computation of fairness for machine learning systems. European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) Workshop, 2023. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2309.06061
Wu, H., Zhao, Z., Chen, L. Y., & Van Moorsel, A. (2022). Federated learning for tabular data: Exploring potential risk to privacy. 2022 IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 193-204. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE55969.2022.00028
Zilius, K., Spiliotopoulos, T., & Van Moorsel, A. (2023). A dataset of coordinated cryptocurrency-related social media campaigns. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 17, 1112-1121. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22219