People
Faculty
Yuanyuan Wu
Yuanyuan Wu is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication and New Media at National University of Singapore. Her research interests mainly extend to health-related misinformation, media psychology and media effect. She is particularly interested in exploring media related to alternative medicine.
Zicheng Zhu
Zicheng Zhu is a doctoral student in the Department of Communications and New Media at National University of Singapore. Her research interest includes digital well-being and game studies, lying at the intersection of communication and human-computer interaction. She is currently interested in understanding players' tension between play and non-play and helping people develop an intentional relationship with technology.
Xin Huang
Xin Huang is a doctoral candidate from the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, School of Computing, NUS. Her research interests mainly lie in gaming and human-AI/robot interactions. Her current projects focus on the comparing the quality of decisions made by machines versus those by humans, with a specific context in game team formation teams and translation.
Subhayan Mukerjee
Subhayan Mukerjee is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communications and New Media, and a principal investigator at the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community at the National University of Singapore. He researches online audiences using computational methods, and teaches courses in quantitative methods, programming, and data visualization.
Renwen Zhang
Renwen Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore. Her research lies at the intersection of health communication, human-computer interaction, and interpersonal communication. She examines the design, use, and effects of digital technology for promoting wellbeing and mental health.Speakers
Cuihua (Cindy) Shen
Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen is a professor at the Department of Communication, University of California, Davis. Her research and teaching interests revolve around the structure and impact of social networks in various online platforms. Methodologically, she frequently uses digital footprint data (big data) in addition to surveys and experiments. Her work has won several Top Paper awards from the International Communication Association. Since 2017, she has served as the Chair and Vice Chair of the Computational Methods Interest Group of the International Communication Association. Currently, she is the Associate Editor of two journals: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and Computational Communication Research.
Lei Guo
Dr. Lei Guo is a professor at the School of Journalism, Fudan University (Shanghai). Previously, she was an associate professor in the Division of Emerging Media Studies at College of Communication, Boston University (BU), USA. She was also an affiliated faculty member at BU’s Department of Computer Science. In 2020, she was appointed as a founding faculty member at BU’s newly launched Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. Her research focuses mainly on the development of media effects theories, news and information flow, and computational social science methodologies. Her studies have been published in a number of leading peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Communication, Communication Research, New Media and Society, and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ).
Poong Oh
Dr. Poong Oh is an assistant professor of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI). Prior to joining NTU in 2017, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the evolutionary dynamics of social and collective actions and the roles of communication in it. Also, his research interest lies in advanced data analytic methods, including experimental social science, computational methods, and Bayesian analysis.
Subhayan Mukerjee
Dr. Subhayan Mukerjee is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communications and New Media, and a principal investigator at the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community at the National University of Singapore. He researches online audiences using computational methods, and teaches courses in quantitative methods, programming, and data visualization.
Prasanta Bhattacharya
Dr. Prasanta Bhattacharya is a Research Scientist and Innovation Lead with the Social and Cognitive Computing Department at the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR Singapore, where he works on network science and behavioral analytics. Prasanta holds a Ph.D in Information Systems from the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, National University of Singapore, where he studied network science with a special focus on predictive and inferential methods in large social networks. His current research agenda aims at understanding the role of big data in emerging social and business applications from finance, education and healthcare. Prasanta actively collaborates with major industry partners from around the world, and has presented his research in leading computer science, information systems and marketing science venues.
Tian Yang
Dr. Tian Yang is an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research lies at the intersection between digital media, political communication, and computational social science, which particularly looks at people’s news consumption and information behaviors in the current new media environment across the globe.
Anfan Chen
Anfan Chen is a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Communication, The Hong Kong Baptist University. His research field includes Computational Communication and Political Communication, and Science Communication. In addition, his work applies computational method to understand the nuances and dynamics of controversial/emerging science social discussion, online social participation, and online health behavior. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, International Journal of Politics/Press, Science Communication, Public Understanding of Science, Journal of Public Relations Research, Public Relations Review, Social Science Computer Review, among other peer-reviewed journals.
Zhuo Chen
Dr. Zhuo Chen is an Assistant Professor at the HSBC Business School, Peking University. His research investigates the socioeconomic and political implications of communication technologies.
Chao Yu
Chao Yu is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Yu’s research interests include online communication behaviors with a focus on individual motivations in crowdsourcing platforms and their impacts on collective behaviors. He is especially interested in topics of social status, homophily, and inequality. Yu earned a B.A. in Journalism from Peking University, a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Communication from Cornell University.
Han Li
HAN LI is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Communication and New Media at National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on AI in healthcare, computational communication, human-computer interaction, and online support communities. As a computational and mixed-method researcher, she used a wide variety of research methods to explore how information and communication technologies can be designed and used to improve health and well-being, enhanced social relationship, and contribute to social good.Teaching Assistants
Yi Ting Chen
Yi Ting Chen is a research assistant at the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community in the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include computational communication, social media and news. She is particularly keen in exploring the impact of regulations on news production and consumption.Participants
Ashley Chenn
Ashley Chenn is a doctoral student in the School of Fashion and Textiles at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her work spans data ownership and privacy, entrepreneurial marketing, and consumer co-creation in Web3 environments. Prior to returning to academia, Ashley worked as a digital marketer for Adobe and with an ESG startup.
Bhargav Nimmagadda
Dr Nimmagadda Bhargav earned his PhD from the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad. He teaches at the Manipal Institute of Communication, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Udupi, Karnataka, India. Bhargav’s ethnographic research on Indian-language journalism is published as a monograph, “Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India”, by Routledge.
Han Wei (Ken) Tan
Han Wei (Ken) is a master’s student in the Department of Communication and New Media at National University of Singapore. His research interests lie in online collaborative learning and educational technology. He is currently exploring how individuals learn through engaging in discussions on social media utilising topic modelling and social network analysis.
Liang Ze Wong
Liang Ze is research scientist in the Social & Cognitive Computing Department of the Institute of High Performance Computing. His background is in mathematics, and his interests are in natural language processing, network analysis and data analysis. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the National University of Singapore's Business School.
Lianshan Zhang
Lianshan Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the School of Media and Communication at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She received Ph.D from National University of Singapore and M.S. from Iowa State University. Her research is at the intersection of health communication, human-computer interaction, psychological effects and social impact of emerging media. Her recent research focuses on older adults’ new media use and digital inclusion in the era of AI.
Narayani Vedam
I am a computational social scientist working with agent-based models to understand the impact of human mannerisms on the virtual and physical communities they inhabit. In the past, I have worked on human-like automotive speed control, opinion formation in virtual social platforms, and disease spread in communities. I am keen on exploring top-down, and bottom-up modelling approaches to social and behavioural studies.
Mengxia Nova Huang
Nova is a PhD student at Nanyang Technological University. Her research focuses on social media and health communication. Specifically, she is interested in how users, especially vulnerable populations, conduct supportive communication in online communities and the corresponding health outcomes.
Qiaofei Wu
Qiaofei Wu is a PhD candidate in Communication at NUS. His research focuses on how human’s communication behaviors trigger psychological and behavioral processes that contribute to well-being. He is interested in understanding how media, information, and technologies can be employed to promote social participation and improve health outcomes.Sakaria Auelua-Toomey
Sakaria Laisene Auelua-Toomey is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. His research focuses on identifying and dismantling systems of advantage by examining the ways in which different contexts shape marginalized groups meta-beliefs.
Xiayu Summer Chen
Xiayu Summer Chen is a doctoral student in Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on reducing health disparities among older adults through the implementation of technology-based interventions. Her most recent work examines the longitudinal impact of technology usage on cognitive functioning among older adults.
Xiaoya Fu
Xiaoya Fu is a Ph.D. candidate at Renmin University of China and a joint Ph.D. candidate at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests lie in interactive technology, media effects, and media psychology. She explores the intersection of machine learning, network analysis, and social science to understand social inequality, user experience, and the impact of interactive communication technologies. Xiaoya holds a bachelor's degree from the Communication University of China.
Xiaoxiao Meng
Xiaoxiao Meng is an Assistant Professor in the College of Arts and Media at Tongji University. She received her Ph.D. in communication from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a visiting scholar at National University of Singapore. Her research interests include privacy studies, digital governance, and media effects.
Xiaofen Ma
Ma Xiaofen is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communication at Renmin University of China, and she is affiliated with Research Center ofJournalism and Social Development. Her research interests include information security, privacy, and risk communication.
Yiyan Zhang
Yiyan Zhang is an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Renmin University of China. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Emerging Media Studies from Boston University. Her research focuses on digital media effects, international communication, and computational communication connecting traditional and computational social science methods.
Yuanxin Wang
Yuanxin Wang is an assistant professor at Minzu University of China. She received her PhD degree from School of New Media at Peking University and she was a visiting scholar in SONIC, Northwestern University. Her current research focus on the the human-machine communication, especially to explore the relationship between human and AI machine (AIGC). She draws upon computational methods to understand how HMC can affect intimate relationship.
Yunbo Mei
Yunbo Mei is a Ph.D. candidate studying sociolinguistic phenomenon at the National University of Singapore. Her research interest focuses on variation phenomena in Mandarin and English, in particular, sociolinguistic variation on social media, the sociophonetic construction of style, and English teachers’ stylistic variation. Her dissertation revolves around the agentive self-representations of Chinese English teachers through their English pronunciation.