2022
[Jan, 2022]. I will give a Public Lecture about misinformation and identity politics on Chinese social media at UCSD's 21st Century China Center.
2021
[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]
[Aug, 2021] I was awarded an NSF grant with my collaborators in CS and HCI. With this grant, we will study how to use informatics and digital crowdsourcing to engage crisis line workers and clients to address their workload and mental wellbeing.
[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
[Sep, 2019] I joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! My profile is covered by CALS and LSC at UW-Madison.
[Jan, 2022]. I will give a Public Lecture about misinformation and identity politics on Chinese social media at UCSD's 21st Century China Center.
2021
[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]
[Aug, 2021] I was awarded an NSF grant with my collaborators in CS and HCI. With this grant, we will study how to use informatics and digital crowdsourcing to engage crisis line workers and clients to address their workload and mental wellbeing.
[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
[Sep, 2019] I joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! My profile is covered by CALS and LSC at UW-Madison.