Post by Counter Terrorism Research Group

💡CTRG Researcher Spotlight #5: Ellie Wong💡 Ellie is a PhD student at UCL, researching the relationship between online extremist content and violence offline. 💻 Previously, she worked as a researcher in the online harms sector for several years, implementing campaigns targeting individuals at risk of radicalisation and studying how harmful and extremist content is amplified and spread on social media platforms. She then retrained as a data scientist to apply machine learning, LLMs, and Python-based analysis to her work. ✏️ After completing her six-month training with UCL's Cyber-Physical Risk CDT, Ellie's research will employ systematic literature review, computational linguistics, and simulation to assess how extremist content online promotes violence offline to identify countermeasures.