Manuel Tonneau
Ph.D. student in Social Data Science, University of Oxford
Consultant, DIME AI, The World Bank
Member of the Open Networks and Big Data Lab, New York University
manuel.tonneau@oii.ox.ac.uk
Bio
I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford where I am supervised by Ralph Schroeder and Scott Hale. I also consult for the World Bank under the supervision of Samuel Fraiberger and am affiliated with the Open Networks and Big Data Lab at New York University.
My PhD research is focused on the moderation of online harmful content. Specifically, I study the extent to which such moderation may treat users unequally across geographies, from unequal automatic detection performance to unequal moderation enforcement through a potential misalignment between user preferences towards moderation and community guidelines.
Prior to the Ph.D., I worked as a research assistant at the World Bank and the Centre Marc Bloch on various computational social science projects. I hold an Engineering degree in Statistics and Economics (eq. to MSc) from ENSAE Paris as well as an MSc in Economics from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. My doctoral work is generously funded by a Global Merit Award from the Shirley Scholars Fund.
News
| 2024-05-15 | 📜 Paper accepted at ACL 2024: "NaijaHate: Evaluating Hate Speech Detection on Nigerian Twitter Using Representative Data" (preprint here) |
| 2024-04-16 | 📜 Paper accepted at the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), co-located at NAACL 2024: "From Languages to Geographies: Towards Evaluating Cultural Bias in Hate Speech Datasets" (link) |
| 2024-03-15 | 📜 Paper accepted at ICWSM 2024: "280 Characters to Employment: Using Twitter to Quantify Job Vacancies" |
| 2023-10-20 | 💬 Will present my work on content moderation at the upcoming workshop on “Alternative Platforms/Platform Alternatives: Comparisons and Transnational Flows” at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin, Germany |
| 2023-09-15 | 📜 New pre-print on disparities in LLM bias between India and the West. Feedback welcome! (link) |
| 2023-07-20 | 💬 Presented ongoing work on hate speech on Nigerian Twitter at IC2S2 (photo) |
| 2023-03-15 | 📜 Paper accepted at ICWSM 2023: "Large-Scale Demographic Inference of Social Media Users in a Low-Resource Scenario" (link) |
