I am an undergraduate honours student at The Australian National University studying a Bachelor of Advanced Computing, specialising in Systems & Architecture and Intelligent Systems. I am supervised by Dr Marian-Andrei Riziou, on a project looking at disinformation campaigns in the Australian political context. My research seeks to answer the question of whether there is a ‘formula’ to create an effective disinformation campaign, with a special focus on analysis of the content of the posts users who are engaging in a disinformation campaign make.

Position at UTS: Thomas was an Honours student with the Behavioral Data Science lab in UTS.

Next position after UTS: Thomas continued his undergraduate studies at the Australian National University.

Honours thesis (pdf):

Willingham, T. (2021). Detecting Disinformation and Information Warfare 
on Social Media. Australian National University. 
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.12134.70729

Interests

• Social Data Science
• Natural Language Processing
• High Performance Computing