Jonathan Zhu of the Lab gave a keynote speech at the Cloud Forum on Digital Society organized by the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) on 21 August. The event attracted over 210,000 viewers through several livestream platforms in mainland China, which represents the largest size of audience in his teaching career. Jonathan’s talk focused
Jonathan Zhu of the lab gave a talk, through Zoom, on Aug 3 to faculty members and students at Seoul National University (SNU), Korea. The talk was part of the Overseas Scholar Colloquium in Journalism organized by the Institute of Communication Research at SNU. In the 90-minute talk on Computational Methods and Social Media, Jonathan
The lab has a new faculty member — Dr. Xiaohui (Vincent) Wang who has recently joined the Department of Media and Communication at CityU as an assistant professor. Vincent received his PhD in information studies from Nanyang Technological University and was a research assistant professor at Hong Kong Baptist University before coming to CityU. Vincent’s
Xiaofan Liu of the lab has won a data science research grant from The International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA) and the Grand Challenges (GC) initiative. His proposal is among the ten projects selected from more than 400 applications submitted from 69 countries after a rigorous review process involving an international panel. Dr. Liu’s proposed project,
Lu Guan recently graduated from our Lab, started her new job at Fudan University, and got two articles accepted. Lu completed her dissertation in November, 2020, and successfully obtained her PhD degree from City University of Hong Kong in April, 2021. Then she entered the School of Journalism in Fudan University in May and started