Congcong Wang

Congcong Wang is a Lecturer in Computer Science at Maynooth University’s Faculty of Science & Engineering, specifically affiliated with the Maynooth International Engineering College. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from University College Dublin in 2023, focusing on social media crisis message categorization with scarce data, followed by postdoctoral research on hierarchical classification for legal documents at the same institution. He previously completed a B.Sc. in Software Engineering at the Beijing-Dublin International College, a joint program between Beijing University of Technology and University College Dublin.

Research Interests:

• Crisis response using NLP techniques
• Hierarchical classification for legal and social media data
• Multilingual harmful comment detection

Teaching: He has taught courses like Computing for Engineering and Probability & Statistics at Fuzhou University and supervised undergraduate final-year projects.