Dr Alistair Baron FHEA

About

Dr. Alistair Baron is a lecturer in the School of Computing and Communications. His research and teaching are in the area of Data Science and Cyber Security. He has previously held several research posts on a variety of projects in the areas of natural language processing (dealing with noisy unstructured text, content analysis, text classification and machine learning) and security (online child protection and the language of extremism). He was a Security Lancaster Research Fellow, in which he conducted research involving using NLP techniques in a cyber-security setting, bringing cutting-edge NLP research into real-word security applications. His lectureship continues this research, primarily focused on developing solutions for problems associated with online communities (bulletin boards,