Invited Talks
"Hateful Content Moderation with AI", East China Normal University, Virtual, November 2022 [Slides]
"Combatting Weaponization of the Internet with AI", WAIC - World Artificial Intelligence Conference x Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH), Virtual, September 2022 [Slides]
"Multimodal Hateful Meme Detection", Google Jigsaw, Virtual, April 2022 [Slides]
"Perils and Promises of Automated Hate Speech Detection", presented in the following events/institutions:
Software AI Lab, Vietnam, Februrary 2022
KDD Singapore Chapter, Singapore, January 2022
Toulouse University, France, November 2021
IIIT (Delhi)-LCS2, India, July 2021
"Disentangling Hate in Online Memes", DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, October 2021
"Online Misbehaviors and Disinformation Mining", DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, June 2021
"Analyzing and Modeling Users In Multiple Social Platforms", [Slides] presented in the following events/ institutions:
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, December 2019
Vietnam National University (VNU), Vietnam Hanoi, July 2019
Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC), Singapore, May 2019
Southeast University, China Nanjing, May 2019
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China Chengdu, May 2019
"Discovering Hidden Topical Hubs and Authorities in Online Social Networks", Ministry of Home Affairs Research Community-of-Practice (CoP) forum, Singapore, February 2019 [Slides]
“Smart Cities for Smart Citizens”, Singapore Polytechnic, Young Analytic Programme, Singapore, September 2018. [Slides]
“Resiliency Measures for Singapore Train Transportation Network”, Land Transport Authority (LTA), Singapore, June 2016.
“Measuring Centralities for Transportation Networks Beyond Structures”, DSO National Laboratories & Prime Minister's Office Singapore (PMO), Singapore, May 2016.
“Sentiment Diffusion and Friendship Maintenance in Online Social Networks”, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore May 2015.
Media Interviews
Interview with South China Morning Post (SCMP), "TikTok bans: will Asia follow West’s lead as US turns the screws on China-linked app?", Mar 2023
Interview with Channel News Asia (CNA), "TikTok can be used on Singapore government-issued devices only on a 'need-to' basis", Mar 2023
Interview with Straits Times, "S’pore couple holds metaverse wedding as more consumers, businesses enter Web 3.0", Sep 2022
Interview with Input Magazine, "Have researchers cracked the code to TikTok virality?", Jan 2022
Live radio interview with CBC The Morning Edition, "Analysing Online Xenophobic Behaviours against Asian Communities during Covid-19 Pandemic", Aug 2021.
Tutorials
Conference Organising Committee
Proceeding Chair, The Web Conference (WWW) [2024]
Reviewer Mentoring Chair, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) [2023]
Social Media and Publicity Co-Chair, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) [2021]
PhD Forum and Poster Track Co-Chair, Interactional Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) [2021]
Conference Program Committee
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022 - Present
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021 - Present
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), 2021 - Present
ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2021 - Present
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2019 - Present
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2019
ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 2019 - Present
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2020 - 2021
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2021 - Present
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2020 - Present
International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA). 2022
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICJNLP), 2020 - 2022
International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2020 - 2023
Interactional Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2019 - Present
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2019
Journal Reviewer/Editorial Board
Associate Editor, Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 2020 - Present
Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 2021 -Present
Reviewer, ACM Communications (CACM), 2022
Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC), 2020
Reviewer, IEEE Access, 2019 - 2020
Reviewer, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, 2021 - Present
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2021
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2022
Reviewer, Natural Language Engineering, 2022
Reviewer, Neurocomputing, 2021
Reviewer, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), 2020
Other Professional Services
Judge of Computer Science & Mathematics, National STEM Talent Search (NSTS), 2023
Challenge Advisor, AI Singapore Prize Challenge, 2023 - Present
Member, AI Singapore Technical Review Committee, 2022
Member, Singapore Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee, 2021 - Present
Chapter Publicity Chair, KDD Singapore Chapter, 2021 - Present
External Examiner, SIM Global Education, Data Analytics Courses, 2021 - Present