{"id":1099011,"date":"2024-10-31T19:34:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T02:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=1099011"},"modified":"2024-10-31T22:09:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T05:09:51","slug":"2024-summer-institute-in-computational-social-science","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/2024-summer-institute-in-computational-social-science\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

The 2024 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) was successfully held from June 30 to July 12 in Beijing. Co-hosted by Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), the Psychometrics Center at the University of Cambridge, and Beijing Normal University, this event aimed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between artificial intelligence and social sciences, with a particular focus on the ethics and social responsibility of AI technology. Over the course of two weeks, the program covered topics such as large language models, social media analysis, network analysis, and psychometrics, attracting graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career scholars from around the globe. Participants not only gained access to cutting-edge knowledge but also engaged in meaningful discussions with industry experts, driving innovation and development in the field of social sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Xing Xie<\/a> (Chair),  Beibei Shi<\/a> (Co-Chair)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday July 5, 2024 – Societal AI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beibei Shi, Microsoft Research Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beibei Shi is senior research program manager at Microsoft Research Asia, taking the responsibility of MSR Asia Open Collaborative Research Program and StarTrack Program, as well as university relations between MSR Asia and universities in Central China, South China, China Hongkong and Taiwan. Besides, she takes the responsibility of the strategic cooperation between Microsoft Research Asia and the Ministry of Education of the People\u2019s Republic of China. She focuses on the research theme of Resilience and Trust, has successfully led several open collaborative research sub-themes establishment with related MSR Asia research team, such as AIER Platform, OpenNetLab, Computing for Carbon Negative and Responsible AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before joined MSR Asia, she joined IBM Research China Institute as a researcher in the cross field of environment and computer, after earned master\u2019s degree in environmental science school of China Agricultural University in 2019. Then, she joined the University Partnership Department of IBM China as a program manager. During that period, she participated to design and led to execute industry-academic cooperative research program \u201cgreen horizon plan\u201d, making very solid contribution to technology innovation of air pollution control.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Diyi Yang, Stanford University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diyi Yang is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Stanford University. Professor Yang’s research interests are Computational Social Science and Natural Language Processing. Her research goal is to understand the social aspects of language and then build socially aware NLP systems to better support human-human and human-computer interaction. Professor Yang received her PhD from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, and her bachelor’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Her work has received multiple best paper nominations or awards at ICWSM, EMNLP, SIGCHI, ACL, and CSCW. She is a recipient of Forbes 30 under 30 in Science, IEEE \u201cAI 10 to Watch\u201d, the Intel Rising Star Faculty Award, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, and NSF CAREER Award.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fangzhao Wu, Microsoft Research Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fangzhao Wu is now a researcher at Social Computing group, Microsoft Research Asia. His research mainly focuses on responsible AI, especially LLM safety, privacy, copyright, and social impact.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fred Jiang, Microsoft Research Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Fred Jiang is currently the Outreach Director at MSRA Industry Innovation Center. As the founder of Innovation Partnership Program in MSRA, he has been responsible for external partnership and promoted the establishment of MSRA Innovation Program since he joined MSRA in 2015. Mr. Fred Jiang Feng has been deeply involved in AI-enabled digital transformation with industry partners in different domains, including financial, manufacturing, healthcare, education, logistics, retail, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to joining MSRA, Mr. Fred Jiang was the Business Development Manager in Microsoft Smart Things, where he was responsible for partnerships with companies in Greater China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Fred Jiang has extensive practical experience in software and hardware development in Nokia. He has served as senior product program manager in Nokia product innovation center and as R&D manager in Nokia Research Center Shenzhen.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Legend Zhu, Microsoft Garage Lead, GCR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legend holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Shanghai University and a MBA degree from Fudan University. He has 19 years of working experience in Microsoft Greater China, and is currently the head of the Garage in Greater China, responsible for driving Microsoft’s innovation culture. He has rich experience in corporate innovation, startups incubation & acceleration, ecosystem construction, industrial innovation empowerment, and talent enablement. In the past, when he was the director of Microsoft Innovation Alliance, he established an innovation center in Suzhou Industrial Park, led the team to serve more than 200 tech startups in four years, with a total valuation of more than 30 billion RMB and financing of more than 9 billion RMB. In his role as the Microsoft Accelerator Success Manager, he was responsible for the co-selling between startups with Microsoft for accelerating their growth. During his tenure as the readiness business partner of Microsoft Greater China, he has accumulated rich experience in organizational transformation and employee enablement. He was the main founder and executor of Microsoft China University. Prior to joining Microsoft, he served as General Manager of China at Global Knowledge, where he had many years of technical and management experience. Photography is Legend’s biggest personal hobby in his spare time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Xiaoyuan Yi, Microsoft Research Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am currently a researcher at Social Computing Group in Microsoft Research Asia. I received my Ph.D. and B.S. degrees both from the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University in 2021 and 2016, respectively. My research interest is Natural Language Generation (NLG), which mainly covers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n