Social Media and Online Community Research

Dept. of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong

Research Assistant • Jun 2022 - Present

Supervisors: Dr. Zhicong Lu & Dr. Bo Wen & Dr. Yaxing Yao

Investigated four topics related to social media:

Executed qualitative content analysis, employing both inductive analysis, with open coding and thematic analysis; and deductive analysis, connecting critical theory or based on other prior works to design initial codebook;

Organized and implemented in-depth interviews to investigate users’ perception

Misogyny on TikTok

Dept. of Information Studies, University College London

Student Research Assistant • May 2023 – Present

Supervisors: Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr

Devised and implemented an archetype modeling method to effectively trigger TikTok's algorithm for video data collection; successfully retrieved deeply buried misogynistic videos

Proposed the mixed analytical approach to qualitatively and quantitatively investigate the prevalence of sexism on TikTok, integrating content analysis and Natural Langugae Processing(NLP) methods, including words co-occurrence network and sentiment analysis

Revlealed implicit misogyny cues on TikTok, including usage of visual elements and humor in storytelling

AI-supported Misinformation Research Group

Journalism Department, Hong Kong Baptist University

Student Research Assistant • Dec 2020 - Mar 2021 & Jun 2021 – Present

Supervisor: Dr. Lan Liang & Prof. Céline Yunya SONG

Coding and codebook improvement, explore and analyze Cantonese fake news dataset using natural language skills such as Latent Dirichlet allocation model, build Cantonese fake news detector using machine learning, and help visualize the attention map of fake news detector

Human-computer interaction education Project

Dept. of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University

Student Research Assistant • Dec 2021 - Jan 2022

Supervisor: Dr. Yucheng Jin

Studied how intergenerational service-learning project impacted on HCI education employing statistical analysis for pre-post surveys;

Organized interviews and conducted thematic content analysis to present the benefits and challenges

Examining Resurgence of Misinformation

Dept. of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University

Student Thesis • Dec 2021 - May 2022

Supervisor: Dr. Xinzhi Zhang

Analyzed over 3,000 fact-checking reports from three fact-checking agencies to identify the misinformation resurgence patterns, collecting data using web scraping in Python

Utilized unsupervised topic modeling, sentence embedding, text similarity, and qualitative analysis to present temporal and topical resurgence patterns

STEM Education in Hong Kong

Dept. of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University

Student Research Assistant • Jun 2021 - Sep 2021

Supervisor: Dr. LAI, Jean Hok Yin

Conducted literature review for visual STEM education; designed and implemented survey to investigate effect of visual programming in Hong Kong

Wrote the proposal for a STEM visual learning research, including schedule designs, etc.

Face Mask Detection Research Project (Group work)

Remote Student Researcher • May 2021 - Sep 2021

Cooperated to improve the Faster R-CNN model's detection accuracy based on a face mask dataset by adding multi-size small anchors on the last feature map and penalizing IoU

Improved small object detection precision by 4.262% and increased the average precision by 3.774% in the task

Hong Kong Baptist University

Teaching Assistant • January 2020 - May 2020 ｜ January 2021 - May 2021

Supervisor: Mr. HU, Pili

Worked as the teaching assistant of the postgraduate course ECON7910 “Data Visualization with Story-telling” course which used Tableau and Tableau Prep. Helped preparation, troubleshooting, and problem-solving.

Pwords- Official Account on WeChat

Writer & Operator • June 2019 - Feb 2021

Supervisor: Mr. HU, Pili

Wrote and published 46 articles, which weekly roundup news across the data and analytics industry, data analytical tools and datasets

Fourteen articles were published by ThePaper.cn, reaching 100,000 views, referring here.

Financial Times Chinese

Trainee Data Journalist• May 2020 - Dec 2020

Supervisor: Mrs. Silva Shih

Produced 29 weekly issues of FTChinese.com's data journalism column to roundup the global fiancial through related to data and cart, conducting data collection, analysis, and visualization.

Wrote an independent news story on the challenges faced by Chinese university students during the COVID-19, referring here.