The NIE Social Media Lab focuses on research and design of next generation social media systems and networks for emerging applications in future cyber-physical environments and societies, including the area below.
What's New
- Prof. She became the Associate Editor for an ACM Journal, Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), starting from Jan 1, 2016.
- Zhi Chen, Pin-Han Ho, and James She, "Energy Minimization For Multi-resolution Multi-Relay Multicast Networks", IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communication, 2015 (accepted to appear)
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M. Cheung, J. She and Z. Jie "Connection Discovery using Big Data of User Shared Images in Social Media, (accepted to appear in IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, 2015)
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J. She, C. Ng and D. Leung "Drag A Star: the Social Media in Outer Space", (accepted to appear in ACM Multimedia 2015, Oct. 2015)
- A project about Big Data Analytic Framework - "Cloud Service to Tell User Interests for Effective Product/ Information Recommendation Using User Shared Image" by Prof. James She and his Ph.D. student is recently approved and funded by the Proof-of-Concept Fund of the University for prototype building (PCF.018.14/15).
- An Invention about Big Data Analytic Framework - "System and Methods of Using User-associated Images for User Understanding and Information Recommendation" by Prof. James She and his Ph.D. student is recently approved and funded by the University for the international PCT patent protection (TTC.PA.0779).
- Best Paper Award: "Analyzing the User Inactiveness in a Mobile Social Game" by Ph.D. student, Ming Cheung and Prof. James She is awarded as 2014 IEEE International Cyber-physical Social Computing Conference (CPSCom).
- Best Paper Award: "Bag-of-Features Tagging Approach for a Better Recommendation with Social Big Data" by Ph.D. student, Ming Cheung and Prof. James She is awarded as one of the best papers in the 2014 Intl. Conf. on Advances in Information Mining and Management.
- Prof. James She becomes one of the editors for the special issue on "Smartphone-based Interactive Technologies, Systems and Applications" ACM Transaction on Multimedia Computing, Communication and Application
- Prof. James She became the Honorary Advisor of Tencent Internet and Society Internet.
- Prof. James She is recently granted a new US patent (US 8,755,412 B2) for an invention from his Ph.D. research works with Prof. Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Workshop
- HTML 5 mobile gaming workshop and competition, 17th and 18th April 2013 (6:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
- Workshop on iOS Application Development Program, 25th and 28th March 2013 (6:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
- Seminar talk on 'The Uses of Big Data in Social Research
Biography
James She is an assistant professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and a visiting research fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is also the founding director of Asia's first social media lab, HKUST-NIE Social Media Lab, and spearheads multidisciplinary research and innovation in multimedia big data analytics and systems, smartphone/wearable-based interactive media systems, cyber-physical multimedia systems and mobile IPTV.
Celebrated as a thought leader in new media and emerging cyber-physical societies, James is a council member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council (Social Media) and joins other government and business leaders to develop solutions to key social media issues on the global agenda. In addition, he is an associate editor for ACM Transaction on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications.
He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and he is the recipient of multiple national, university and best paper awards, including the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, NSERC Innovation Challenge Award, and Canada-UK Millennium Research Award. Check http://smedia.ust.hk/ for other details.
Awards
- 2009 Canada-UK Millennium Research Award, Natural Science & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
- 2009 Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies, University of Waterloo (UW).
- 2009 Innovation Challenge Award, NSERC.
- 2009 Two-year PostDoctoral Fellowship Award, NSERC.
- 2007 TecNet Award, Centre of Business, Entrepreneurship & Technology, UW.
- 2003 International Doctorate Scholarship, UW.
- 2002 Doctorate Scholarship, Cheng Ming Foundation, Hong Kong and United States.
- 2001 Ten Outstanding Young Persons, Innovation and Technology Association and the Information Technology Department, HKSAR Government.
- 2001 Two Hong Kong Industry Awards, HKSAR Government.
- 2001 Technological Merit, Hong Kong Science & Technology Park.
