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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

Jonathan Visited to PHBS in Shenzhen

September 27, 2019newsNews, Visit

Jonathan Zhu paid an intensive visit to Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS) on Sept 25, 2019, where he met half a dozen senior and junior faculty members individually, each for half-hour long, and gave a seminar talk to faculty and graduate students on “Computational approaches to communication research: theory, methods, and applications”. Located in

Six papers accepted for ICA 2019

January 19, 2019newsConference, News

The 69th Annual ICA conference will be held on May 24-28, 2019 in Washington DC, US. Six papers by lab members are selected for presentation on the coming conference, which has an acceptance rate of 39.4% this year. The titles of the papers are listed below: Hao, Q., & Peng, T. Q. Two Applications of Statistical Relational Learning: Fake

One paper accepted by PacificVis 2019

January 8, 2019newsConference, People, Publications, Research

A paper, entitled “Visual Analytics of Dynamic Interplay Between Behaviors in MMORPGs”, has recently been accepted for publication and presentation at PacificVis 2019. Two members of the Web Mining Lab, Dr. Winson Peng, and Mr. Ji Lan, participated in this study. They work with a group of computer scientists at Zhejiang University to develop a

Retooling Workshop for MACNM Alumni kicked off

January 5, 2019newsEvents, News

The Workshop, officially debuted as “MACNM Computational Workshop”, kicked off on Jan. 5, 2019 and continued on Jan. 6, 12, and 13 in Run Run Shaw Creative Media Center of City University of Hong Kong. Sponsored by the Centre for Communication Research (CCR) and Web Mining Lab of Department of Media and Communication, the Workshop