Ghazaal Sheikhi is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies. Her research interests revolve around machine learning, natural language processing and content analysis. Ghazaal investigates semi-automated methods and tools for fact checking and content verification to foster trustworthy news. This research focuses on computational and image/video analysis from social media and unverified resources to identify deceptions and manipulations.Before, Ghazaal was an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Final International University, North Cyprus. She holds a PhD in Computer Engineering (Machine Learning) from Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus and a master's degree in Biomedical. Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.  Ghazaal has published 7 papers in the area of machine learning and pattern recognition in competitive conferences and journals. You can find a list of Ghazaa's publications on Google Scholar: Scholar: <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G2hq2B4AAAAJ&hl=en">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G2hq2B4AAAAJ&hl=en