IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT 2021
Special Track on Social Computing

Jianhua Ma is a professor in the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. He served as the Chair of Digital Media Department of Hosei University in 2011-2012. His research interests include multimedia, networking, pervasive computing, social computing, wearable technology, IoT, smart things, and cyber intelligence. Ma is one of pioneers in research on Hyper World and Cyber World (CW) since 1996, and was a co-initiator of the first international symposium on Cyber World in 2002. He first proposed Ubiquitous Intelligence (UI) towards Smart World (SW), which he envisioned in 2004, and was featured in the European ID People Magazine in 2005. He has conducted several unique CW-related projects including the Cyber Individual (Cyber-I), which was featured by and highlighted on the front page of IEEE Computing Now in 2011. He has published more than 300 papers, co-authored/edited over 15 books and 30 journal special issues, and delivered over 30 keynote speeches at international conferences. He has founded three IEEE Congresses on ‘Smart World’, ‘Cybermatics’ and ‘Cyber Science and Technology’, respectively, as well as IEEE Conferences on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom), Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC), Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), Cyber Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom), Internet of Things (iThings), and Internet of People (IoP). He is a Chair of IEEE SC Hyper-Intelligence Technical Committee, a Co-chair of IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Cybermatics, and a founder of IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Smart World.

Nitin Agarwal is the Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Science at University of Arkansas - Little Rock. Dr. Agarwal is the director of the Collaboratorium of Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) research center. His research interests include social computing, (deviant) behavior modeling, group dynamics, influence, trust, collective action, social-cyber forensics, mis/disinformation, influence operations, coordinated cross-platform cyber campaigns, adversarial information operations, health informatics, data mining, and privacy. He has published 10 books and over 250 articles in top-tier forums with several best paper awards and nominations. From socio-political movements to COVID-19 misinformation campaigns to extremist and terrorist recruitment and radicalization campaigns to anti-West/anti-NATO disinformation and propaganda campaigns, at COSMOS, he is directing several projects that have made foundational and translational contributions. His research is supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Army Research Office (ARO), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) with a total funding of over $45 million. Dr. Agarwal obtained Ph.D. from Arizona State University with outstanding dissertation recognition in 2009. He was recognized as one of 'The New Influentials: 20 In Their 20s' by Arkansas Business in 2011. He was recognized with the University-wide Faculty Excellence Award in Research and Creative Endeavors in 2015 and 2021. Dr. Agarwal received the Social Media 2015 Educator of the Year Award at the 21st International Education and Technology Conference. Dr. Agarwal was nominated as International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA) Fellow in 2017 and an Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) Fellow in 2018. Visit http://ualr.edu/nxagarwal/ for more details.

Hyejin Youn is an associate professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO); and an external faculty at Santa Fe Institute. She received PhD in Statistical Physics at KAIST, after which she was a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, and at MIT Media Lab, and a senior research fellow at Mathematical Institute at University of Oxford, and Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School.

Meng Jiang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He obtained his bachelor degree and PhD from Tsinghua University, and was a postdoctoral research associate at UIUC. He has published more than 100 international conference or journal papers on the topics of data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing. His research interests are knowledge graph construction, graph representation learning, and social-behavioral graph applications.

Suppawong Tuarob received the BSE and MSE degrees both in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and the MS degree in industrial engineering and the PhD degree in computer science and engineering both from the Pennsylvania State University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mahidol University, Thailand. His research involves data mining and knowledge discovery in large-scale software engineering, scholarly, social media, and healthcare domains by applying multiple cutting-edge techniques, such as machine learning, topic modeling, and sentiment analysis.

Dr Armin Haller is an Associate Professor at the Australian National University with a joint appointment at the Research School of Management (RSM) and the School of Computing (SoCo). Armin is leading a cross-disciplinary knowledge graph engineering team at RSM and SoCo. His research interests are in Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Management, Ontology Engineering and Linked Data where he has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles in journals, conference and workshop proceedings.

Arindam Pal is a Senior Research Scientist at Data61 in Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). He is also a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney. His research interests are in Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security and Machine Learning. He works on business and research problems of CSIRO, and collaborates with faculty members of universities, both in Australia and abroad. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has over 14 years of research experience in software companies like Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Novell. He has published academic papers in reputed conferences and journals, and filed patents in various countries like India, USA, and Europe. He is a technical program member for several reputed conferences and technical reviewer for many renowned journals. He is a Senior Member of both ACM and IEEE.