Stephen Doherty

Professor Stephen Doherty is a psychologist and linguist at UNSW's Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, serving as Deputy Dean (Education) and leading the ADA Language Processing Research Lab. His work focuses on the psychology of language and technology, combining natural language processing with online/offline methods. He has secured over $3 million in research grants and led projects on misinformation detection, forensic analysis, cybersecurity, and subtitling effects. His academic roles include Deputy Dean overseeing education across 6 schools and 1,000 staff, emphasizing technology-enhanced learning and inclusive education.

Research interests span psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, cybersecurity, and forensic linguistics. Notable projects include National Intelligence grants on disinformation, Facebook-funded research on online behavior modeling, and ARC-funded studies on digital humanities archives. Awards include UNSW ADA Research Fellowship and Dean's Early Career Researcher Awards.

Publications emphasize eye-tracking studies in L2 learning, translation technology, and cognitive load effects of subtitles. He collaborates with institutions like Microsoft, FBI, and Avertro, and has contributed to over 40 journal articles, 17 book chapters, and 8 conference papers. His lab explores AI ethics, machine translation, and multimodal legal discourse.

Grants total over $50 million in education innovations, including UNSW Learning & Teaching Innovation grants and industry partnerships. He advises on subtitling efficacy, lexical simplification, and forensic interpreting, maintaining labs focused on human-AI collaboration and digital forensics.