2022
[Oct, 2022] I was very grateful to have partnered with Urban Triage and Wisconsin EcoLatinos to organize two community engagement events on Environmental Justice, where we brought nearly 100 members from Black and Latinx communities to have a day of discussion on Oct 22, and Oct 29 on sustainability issues related to energy saving at home, heat & health, trees and climate technologies. We are now in the process of working with the city and county sustainability offices to create positive changes to bring resources back to these communities and to follow up with more community engagement in spring 2023.
[June, 2022] I very much look forward to giving a talk at the City University of Hong Kong to share my work on using computational social science methods to study public engagement with science on Weibo.
[June, 2022] I am very excited to give a speech at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to share my work on public deliberation and inclusive civic discourse on digital platforms.
[June, 2022] I will give a guest talk about Video as Data at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at North Dakota State University.
[May, 2022] I am excited to give a guest lecture and meet the students at the Computational Media & Data Science Graduate Class at UT-Austin, School of Journalism and Media.
[April, 2022] I will give a guest talk about Science Communication and Civic Dialogues on Social Media at University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) to audiences in biochemistry fields.
[Mar, 2022] I very much look forward to having my ongoing work related to misinformation presented at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center's True Costs of Misinformation Workshop.
[Feb, 2022]. I am super excited to present my various works on digital technologies and community voices in science and environmental issues at the Data Science Research Bazaar Closing Panel. [talk video]
[Feb, 2022]. I will give a Public Lecture about misinformation and identity politics on Chinese social media at UCSD's 21st Century China Center.
2021
[Nov, 2021] I look forward to sharing my Public Opinion Quarterly paper on how researchers can integrate survey, public deliberation and social media discussions to study public opinion on emerging technologies at George Washington University, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Seminar series.
[Oct, 2021] I am very excited to present my YouTube paper that examines the diversity of digital knowledge production at the 2021 Inclusive SciComm Symposium. [symposium] [paper link].
[Sep, 2021] I am excited to give a talk about my works on identity politics and public deliberation of science on social media at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance Seminar at University of Canberra. [event website] [talk video].
[Aug, 2021] I was awarded an NSF grant with my collaborators in CS and HCI from Stanford, Dartmouth and U-Delaware. With this grant, we will study how to design informatics and digital crowdsourcing platforms to engage crisis line workers and clients to monitor mental wellbeing and working performances. [NSF award]
[July, 2021] I recently won a data science competition grant from the American Family Insurance to study deliberation between chatbots and various populations, with the aim to enhance fairness in AI. [news coverage]
[June, 2021] I look forward to presenting my work on understanding the global climate strike movement through Twitter at the Paris Conference on Communication Power of Global Citizens and Politicians.
[May, 2021] I am super excited to give a talk about my YouTube work on examining the diversity of digital knowledge production at the Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics and Political Science.
[April, 2021] I will present my work on nationalism and public engagement with science on social media at the Symposium on the Political Economy of Misinformation organized by UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
[March, 2021] I look forward to presenting my collaborative work on how platforms define and moderate misinformation at the 1st Conference of the Platform Governance Research Network, panel on Governing Toxicity.
[Feb, 2021] I will give a talk about my paper on public deliberation in Tamale Ghana at the North Carolina State University, Genetic Engineering and Society Center. https://research.ncsu.edu/ges/event/colloquium-2021-02-16/
2020
[December, 2020] I look forward to sharing my paper that examines the role of nationalism in science (mis)perception at Princeton University, the China Workshop.
[November, 2020] My works on misinformation and debunking on Chinese social media are covered at WisCONNECT: https://www.wiscontext.org/covid-19-misinformation-and-paranoid-style-wisconsins-pandemic-politics
[October, 2020] I am excited to share my work on YouTube looking into the issue of diversity in science communication at the Virtual Symposium Platformed Creation: The World Of Influencers, Content Creators, and Micro-celebrities organized by the Stanford University Ethnography Lab. talk video here.
[August, 2020] I was invited to give a talk at the panel on Making Sense of Technology Buzz Words: Automation, Robotics, AI at AEJMC this year with panelists from the industry including Google AI, Primer, and other AI researchers.
[May, 2020] I innovated in teaching the LSC250 course (Research Methods in Communication Industry) by partnership with the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin to apply data science to help PDPW enhance public engagement among dairy stakeholders. My story has been covered by state media Agriculture Clips and MidWest Farm Report.
[April, 2020] I was awarded an NSF RAPID grant. My NSF funded research project on helping contain COVID19 is covered by UW-Madison News and The Badger Herald.
[June, 2020] I am excited to discuss and speak about how to warrant narratives about gene-editing at the Hastings Center.
[Feb, 2020] I spoke about how we can utilize YouTube as data for studying science communication and highlight a case study that examines the diverse community that circulates highly viewed (science) videos at LSC 700 Colloquium. talk video here.
2019
[Oct, 2019] I am heading to Vienna to give a guest lecture at the University of Vienna late this month on authoritarian government responsiveness to online complaints.
[Sep, 2019] I am the winner of this year's National Communication Association (NCA) Political Communication Division's Lynda Lee Kaid Outstanding Dissertation Award
[Aug, 2019] I joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! My profile is covered by CALS and LSC at UW-Madison.
[June, 2019] I defended my dissertation and obtained Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University.
[Oct, 2022] I was very grateful to have partnered with Urban Triage and Wisconsin EcoLatinos to organize two community engagement events on Environmental Justice, where we brought nearly 100 members from Black and Latinx communities to have a day of discussion on Oct 22, and Oct 29 on sustainability issues related to energy saving at home, heat & health, trees and climate technologies. We are now in the process of working with the city and county sustainability offices to create positive changes to bring resources back to these communities and to follow up with more community engagement in spring 2023.
[June, 2022] I very much look forward to giving a talk at the City University of Hong Kong to share my work on using computational social science methods to study public engagement with science on Weibo.
[June, 2022] I am very excited to give a speech at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to share my work on public deliberation and inclusive civic discourse on digital platforms.
[June, 2022] I will give a guest talk about Video as Data at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at North Dakota State University.
[May, 2022] I am excited to give a guest lecture and meet the students at the Computational Media & Data Science Graduate Class at UT-Austin, School of Journalism and Media.
[April, 2022] I will give a guest talk about Science Communication and Civic Dialogues on Social Media at University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) to audiences in biochemistry fields.
[Mar, 2022] I very much look forward to having my ongoing work related to misinformation presented at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center's True Costs of Misinformation Workshop.
[Feb, 2022]. I am super excited to present my various works on digital technologies and community voices in science and environmental issues at the Data Science Research Bazaar Closing Panel. [talk video]
[Feb, 2022]. I will give a Public Lecture about misinformation and identity politics on Chinese social media at UCSD's 21st Century China Center.
2021
[Nov, 2021] I look forward to sharing my Public Opinion Quarterly paper on how researchers can integrate survey, public deliberation and social media discussions to study public opinion on emerging technologies at George Washington University, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Seminar series.
[Oct, 2021] I am very excited to present my YouTube paper that examines the diversity of digital knowledge production at the 2021 Inclusive SciComm Symposium. [symposium] [paper link].
[Sep, 2021] I am excited to give a talk about my works on identity politics and public deliberation of science on social media at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance Seminar at University of Canberra. [event website] [talk video].
[Aug, 2021] I was awarded an NSF grant with my collaborators in CS and HCI from Stanford, Dartmouth and U-Delaware. With this grant, we will study how to design informatics and digital crowdsourcing platforms to engage crisis line workers and clients to monitor mental wellbeing and working performances. [NSF award]
[July, 2021] I recently won a data science competition grant from the American Family Insurance to study deliberation between chatbots and various populations, with the aim to enhance fairness in AI. [news coverage]
[June, 2021] I look forward to presenting my work on understanding the global climate strike movement through Twitter at the Paris Conference on Communication Power of Global Citizens and Politicians.
[May, 2021] I am super excited to give a talk about my YouTube work on examining the diversity of digital knowledge production at the Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics and Political Science.
[April, 2021] I will present my work on nationalism and public engagement with science on social media at the Symposium on the Political Economy of Misinformation organized by UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
[March, 2021] I look forward to presenting my collaborative work on how platforms define and moderate misinformation at the 1st Conference of the Platform Governance Research Network, panel on Governing Toxicity.
[Feb, 2021] I will give a talk about my paper on public deliberation in Tamale Ghana at the North Carolina State University, Genetic Engineering and Society Center. https://research.ncsu.edu/ges/event/colloquium-2021-02-16/
2020
[December, 2020] I look forward to sharing my paper that examines the role of nationalism in science (mis)perception at Princeton University, the China Workshop.
[November, 2020] My works on misinformation and debunking on Chinese social media are covered at WisCONNECT: https://www.wiscontext.org/covid-19-misinformation-and-paranoid-style-wisconsins-pandemic-politics
[October, 2020] I am excited to share my work on YouTube looking into the issue of diversity in science communication at the Virtual Symposium Platformed Creation: The World Of Influencers, Content Creators, and Micro-celebrities organized by the Stanford University Ethnography Lab. talk video here.
[August, 2020] I was invited to give a talk at the panel on Making Sense of Technology Buzz Words: Automation, Robotics, AI at AEJMC this year with panelists from the industry including Google AI, Primer, and other AI researchers.
[May, 2020] I innovated in teaching the LSC250 course (Research Methods in Communication Industry) by partnership with the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin to apply data science to help PDPW enhance public engagement among dairy stakeholders. My story has been covered by state media Agriculture Clips and MidWest Farm Report.
[April, 2020] I was awarded an NSF RAPID grant. My NSF funded research project on helping contain COVID19 is covered by UW-Madison News and The Badger Herald.
[June, 2020] I am excited to discuss and speak about how to warrant narratives about gene-editing at the Hastings Center.
[Feb, 2020] I spoke about how we can utilize YouTube as data for studying science communication and highlight a case study that examines the diverse community that circulates highly viewed (science) videos at LSC 700 Colloquium. talk video here.
2019
[Oct, 2019] I am heading to Vienna to give a guest lecture at the University of Vienna late this month on authoritarian government responsiveness to online complaints.
[Sep, 2019] I am the winner of this year's National Communication Association (NCA) Political Communication Division's Lynda Lee Kaid Outstanding Dissertation Award
[Aug, 2019] I joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! My profile is covered by CALS and LSC at UW-Madison.
[June, 2019] I defended my dissertation and obtained Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University.