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Xiaofan receives a CityU internal grant on cryptocurrency market monitoring project

June 23, 2020newsFund, News

Dr. LIU Xiaofan receives a grant for building a cryptocurrency market monitoring platform from the CityU’s knowledge transfer initiative. The project aims at continuously surveilling (both licit and illicit) activities in the cryptocurrency economy such as investor behavior, market manipulation, money laundering, and other financial risks, by collecting, integrating, and analyzing blockchain transactions and Internet

Second Paper on Sequential Modeling of Mobile Phone Use Published at JCMC

May 5, 2020adminPublications

The article, entitled “Mobile phone use as sequential processes: From discrete behaviors to sessions of behaviors and trajectories of sessions” has recently been published at Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Mobile phone use is, by its very nature, an unfolding process. For example, we might start the day by texting, followed by online games and then

Lu Won an Outstanding Research Papers Award from the College

February 3, 2020adminFund, News

Lu has received an Outstanding Research Papers Awards Scheme for PhD Students from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS). The scheme is to award PhD students for publishing in top quality journals during their studies and will grant HK$5,000 to cover the cost of copy-editing. Lu was awarded for her publication, entitled

Eleven papers accepted for ICA 2020

January 22, 2020adminConference, News

The 70th Annual ICA conference will be held on May 21-25, 2020 in Gold Coast, Australia. Eleven papers by lab members are selected for presentation on the coming conference, which has an acceptance rate of 44% this year. The titles of the papers are listed below: 1. Liu, X. F., Chen, Z., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2020).

Jonathan and Xiaofan Spoke at the First Computational Workshop at Tohoku University, Japan

January 21, 2020adminNews, Visit

Lab members Jonathan Zhu and Xiaofan Liu, along with Dr. Tetsuro Kobayashi of Department of Media & Communication, were invited to give talks at the First International Workshop on Computational Humanities and Social Science at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan on 19 January 2020. Tohoku University, one of the seven leading national universities in Japan, has