Panelists for "Challenges in Content Moderation: How can NLP help?"
Kat Lo is the Content Moderation Program Lead at Meedan and visiting researcher at the University of California, Irvine specializing in online moderation and harassment. Lo consults with technology, social media, and game companies on platform policy and enforcement. She also serves on the advisory board for nonprofits and advocacy organizations that focus on online harassment and mental health.
Nithum Thain is a Software Engineer at Google Jigsaw. He works on the Conversation-AI effort that leverages Machine Learning technologies to help improve online conversation. Previously, Nithum was a Lecturer at Berkeley in NLP and a Postdoc at Simon Fraser University. Nithum holds a PhD in Algorithmic Game Theory from McGill University under the supervision of Dr. Adrian Vetta and an MBA from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.,
Sal Hagen is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam as co-founder of the Open Intelligence Lab (OILab) and member of the ERC-funded ODYCCEUS Horizon 2020 project. He holds a rMA Media Studies from University of Amsterdam and will be starting his PhD there in October. His research focuses on cultural production within online political subcultures, approaching this with both computational techniques as well as media theory. His MA thesis “Here I Am, Praying to an Egyptian Frog” concerned tracing the politically fluid activity surrounding "Trump" on the toxic imageboard 4chan/pol/, using a mixed methods approach including computational linguistic