Zhang Lun and Winson have received a research grant for young scholars from the national social science foundation of China (NSSFC). According to the national planning office of philosophy and social science (NPOPSS), the average success rate for NSSFC2014 is 13.6%. Their 2-year research project, entitled as “Dynamics of Framing on Public Events in Social
Winson Peng is awarded the Urban Informatics Research Grant from Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). He will collaborate with researchers at MSRA to carry out a study on “Tracking Dynamics of Social Happiness on Twitter”. (Winson)
Jonathan Zhu and Winson Peng received a competitive General Research Fund (GRF) from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council to carry out a study on “Growth trajectories and causal mechanisms of evolutionary dynamics for social networking services (SNSs)”. In the 3-year study (2012-15), they will examine not only key structural and temporal properties of SNSs, but