Computational Social Science Meets Big Data Feng Xia Dalian University of Technology, China http://fengxia.net Agenda 1 About The Alpha Lab 4 Social Relationship Mining 2 Background: Towards Big 5 Scholarly Impact Assessment Scholarly Data 3 Scholarly Data Analysis 6 Scholarly Recommendation Alpha has the meaning of first in Greek. We borrow this word Why? to express the idea that we pursue being extraordinary not only in academic research, but also in fully exploiting the potential of ourselves. We value hard work and talents. We embrace the change and the differences. Our goal is to create innovation through conducting What? interdisciplinary, application-driven academic research. We are interested in a broad spectrum of cutting-edge research topics including social computing, computational social science, big data, and mobile social networks. Full name of the Lab: The Alpha Lab @ Dalian University of Where? Technology, China. Address: School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Development Zone, Dalian 116620 China. URL (website): http://TheAlphaLab.org 3 4 5 Supervisors Feng Xia Ivan Lee Professor Distinguished Guest Professor Jeremy Kong Alex Ning Associate Professor Assistant Professor Jenny Xu Isabelle Liu Assistant Professor Assistant Professor 6 Students Feng Xia: Professor 7 1 From different countries 30+ 2 PhD, master, undergraduate students: 3 We are family! 7 Research Interests 8 Research Areas/Topics Science of Success in Science Scholarly Big Recommendation Trajectory Data 9 Research Areas/Topics Socially- Aware Networking Science of Scientific Scientific Collaboration Team Dynamics Science 10
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