Dr. Zhang Lun, who graduated from WML in 2012 and is currently an Associate Professor at Bejing Normal University, returned to WML for old times’ sake on Jan 16, 2017. Current members of WML are also thrilled to listen to her reflections on working and doing research in mainland China. Zhang Lun gave some suggestions
On Oct 5, Jonathan Zhu gave a talk on computational communication research in big data era (slides) at the Research Institute of Mass Communication, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in Taipei. The NTNU Institute has been a pioneering program in Taiwan in offering graduate-level training on computational methods. Dr. Tosti Chiang (the first from the
On November 24th, Gao Jianbo attended the weekly meeting of Web Mining Lab. Gao is a research full professor from Wright State University, and the founder of PMB Intelligence LLC. Now he is also a Distinguished Professor of Guangxi University, and the founding director of Institute of Complexity Science and Big Data Technology in Guangxi
On October 27th, Jyrki Nummenmaa attended the weekly meeting of Web Mining Lab. He is a CS professor from the University of Tampere in Finland. He and the lab member Zhenzhen became friends in the Finnish summer school on social media. During the summer school, they discussed about the possibility of collaboration between scientists and
Winson Peng visited MSRA for a month between June 19, 2014 and July 18, 2014 as an MSR Visiting Researcher. During his visit, Winson worked with Dr. Yingcai Wu, Dr. Shixia Liu and other members of data visualization group on a paper on topic coopetition on social media which has been accepted for publication by