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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.