Scott Hale
Director (Head Of Department) at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolScott Hale is Director and Head of Department at the Oxford Internet Institute and Director of Research at Meedan, combining academic leadership with practical, impact-driven research on how social media, algorithmic systems, and large language models shape information access. With 14+ years of experience analyzing large-scale multilingual datasets, he leads the Equitable Access to Quality Information Lab to study how people discover, evaluate, and use information to make life decisions and to translate findings into tools and partnerships with media and community organisations. His background spans computer science, mathematics and languages, and his doctoral work probed cross-language information flows and platform design—skills he pairs with hands-on data science and visualization expertise. Scott has a track record of bridging academia and industry through releasing real-world datasets, chairing multistakeholder groups, and embedding research into product and policy at Meedan. Early international experience teaching and deploying educational technology in Japan informs his enduring interest in practical digital inclusion. He is notable for focusing on LLM alignment and multilingual NLP in real-world settings rather than solely theoretical development.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc and DPhil/PhD Oxford Internet Institute, MSc and DPhil/PhD Oxford Internet Institute at University of OxfordBachelor's Degree Computer Science Mathematics Spanish, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science Mathematics Spanish at Eckerd College
Japanese, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (121)
language-detection10
fill10
fact-checking10
computational-linguistics10
phonetics10
javascript10
twitter10
acl10
latex10
gephi10
maps10
tweepy10
twitter-api10
leaflet10
self-contained10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
euagendas/m3webdemo
May 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:32 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
oxfordinternetinstitute/gephi-plugins
Nov 2012 - Sep 2013
Switch to the sigmaexporter-plugin branch (https://github.com/oxfordinternetinstitute/gephi-plugins/tree/sigmaexporter-plugin/modules/sigmaExporter) or jsonexporter-plugin branch (https://github.com/oxfordinternetinstitute/gephi-plugins/tree/jsonexporter-plugin/modules/JsonExporter) for the relevant code.
Contributions:30 commits, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
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