Andreas Vlachos
Dr. Andreas Vlachos is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, working on the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
He proposed fact checking as a challenge to advance artificial intelligence (Vlachos and Riedel, 2014) and developed the first automated identification
and verification algorithm (Vlachos and Riedel, 2015). Following this, he automated part of the manual verification process followed by the
rumour-tracking website Emergent (Ferreira and Vlachos, 2016). A variant of the task formulation proposed in this paper was adopted by the
international Fake News Challenge. Vlachos's work on automated verification has been covered by international media including the New York Times
and he has been invited to speak on the topic to a number of public events such as the Internet Governance Forum.
