Gareth John

TYSON

Gareth Tyson has been a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Queen Mary University of London, Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, and a post-doctoral researcher at King's College London. His research is in the broad area of Internet Data Science and, over the last 4 years, he has been awarded over $6 USD million in research funding. His work has received widespread coverage from news outlets such as MIT Tech Review, Washington Post, Slashdot, BBC, The Times, Daily Mail, Wired, Science Daily, Ars Technica, The Independent, Business Insider and The Register. He has also served as an organising and program committee member for a number of prestigious conferences such as ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, ACM IMC, ACM WWW, ACM CoNEXT, IEEE ICDCS and AAAI ICWSM. He hosted ACM IMC and ACM DEV in London, and received the Outstanding Reviewer Award four times at ICWSM (2016, 2018, 2019, 2021). His research has been awarded Facebook's Shared Task on Hateful Memes Prize 2021; the Best Student Paper Award at the Web Conference 2020; the Best Paper Award at eCrime'19; the Honourable Mention Award at the Web Conference 2018 (best paper in track); and the Best Presentation Award at INFOCOM'18. He received QMUL's Faculty Research Excellence Award in 2021 and the Brendan Murphy Memorial Young Researcher Prize in 2013.