2024

  • Feb 7: Invited presentation at "Empowering Change: Harnessing Citizen-Generated Data for Social Justice", A side event to the UN Commission for Social Development (virtual)

  • Jan 16-17: LEVEL UP-Denver Workshop on Charting a Pathway toward Inclusive Computing, CRA, Denver.

    2023

  • Oct 18: Invited speaker, Department of State U.S. Speaker Program on Security: Artificial Intelligence in Local Governance in South Africa

  • Sep 16: Panelist, Women in AI, IoT, and Blockchain , The IEEE Int. Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Internet of Things (AIBTHINGS 2023), Sep 16-17, 2023 (virtual)

  • July 11-14: Panelist, paper and poster presenter at the 24th Int. Conference on Digital Government Research ( dg.o 2023), July 11-14, Gdansk, Poland.

  • July 4: Delivered a Keynote Speech on Trust and Risk Management In the Age of Connected and Intelligent Society, 2023 International Conference on Information, System and Convergence Applications (ICISCA 2023), New Uzbekistan University, July 3-6, Uzbekistan.

  • Jun 30: Congratulations to Florian Guillou at University De Rennes in France on sucessfully completing his intership project with me and Prof. Laurent D'Orazio.

  • May 25: Congratulations to the 2023 ISI Graduates! (James Masterson, Emilio Flores, Brandon Ortega, Sabella Vaserman, and Jun Jie Du)
    Congratulations to Sabella on receiving the ISI Research Excellence Award. Congratulations to Brandon on graduating with his excellece in ISI program.

  • May 14-17: FLAIRS-36 conference was a success.

  • Apr 27: Congratulations to Sabella Vaserman on showcasing her ISI and MaCaulay honor's project at the CSI Undergraduate Research Conference.

  • Apr 18: Accepted papers to Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2023)

  • Apr 17: Received a PSC-CUNY Research Award (Traditional B).

  • Apr 3: Delivered an invited Keynote speech at the Ninth International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG ), (Virtual), Quito, Ecuador, April 03, 2023.

  • Mar 17 and 27: Congratulations to Alen Chih-Yuan Li on an accepted paper at FLAIRS-36, and to Tammy Babad on an accepted poster paper at FLAIRS-36.

  • Feb 24-Mar 6: Grand Prize Winning Team for GfK NextGen Data Science Hackathon - Congratulations to our undergraduate student team (Brandon Ortega, Tammy Babad and Brendan Costello) for winning the Grand Prize with $5,000 award and a trip to the Insights Association Annual meeting to present their work. Also featured at CSI Today

  • Jan 30, 2023: Presented an invited Lecture on "Policy Tracking and Evaluation: Citizen's Public Health Policy Perceptions," (Virtual) Seminar on Government Performance, AI Public Service, and Citizen Participation, 10-10 Lectures from GSPA, Seoul National University.

  • Jan 2023: I will deliver an invited Keynote speech at the 2023 International Conference on Information, System and Convergence Applications ( ICISCA2023), July 3-6, 2023, Uzbekistan.

    2022

  • Sep 2022: I will deliver an invited Keynote speech at the Ninth International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG), Quito, Ecuador, April 03-05, 2023.

  • May 18 2022: The ACM DGOV Journal is now indexed in SCOPUS.

  • May 2022: I will serve as co-Program Chair for FLAIRS-36 to be held in Clearwater Beach, FL during May 14-17, 2023.

  • May 15-18: FLAIRS-35: served as special tracks chair, and organized a track on Security, Privacy and Ethical Issues in AI

    2021

  • Oct 26, Keynote speech on Machine Learning Approaches to detect Fake news and Misinformation in COVID-19 Pandemic, IV Congress of Int Systems Engineering (CIIS 2021): Digital Society: Challenges and Opportunities of a New Reality, Oct 26-28, 2021. University of Lima, Peru.

  • Oct 15, Invited talk on Publishing Your Research in Digital Government, Virtual Forum, 10-10 Project at Grad School of Public Administration, Seoul National University.

  • Aug 13, Trained and Certified as Carbon Literate | Individual Actions

  • June 28: Congratulations to Seungyoon Shin for her successful defense for her Ph.D degree at Seoul National University.

  • June 11: I was honored with the Distinguished Service Award by the Digital Governement Society at the 22nd annual conference of the digital government research. [ Photo]

  • June 11: Best Poster Award was received for the student-led research on Machine Learning Approach to Detect Fake News, Misinformation in COVID-19 Pandemic, at DG.O 2021:22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research. Congratulations to Sirisha Bojjireddy.

  • May: I will serve as special track coordinator for Flairs-35, May 15-18, 2022

  • Apr 9: Panelist, Ask the Editors: Responding to Peer Review and Other Tips for Successful Journal Submissions, LACUNY Professional Development Committee (PDC) Event, Fri Apr 9, 2021.

  • Mar-Apr: Featured at ACM Computing Reviews, and its blog in April.

  • Jan 29: presentation at Virtual Workshop on COVID 19 hosted by Seoul National University

  • Jan: ACC 730 is cancelled. I will teach ISI 315 in Spring 21 instead.

    2020

  • Oct 19: Recognized as an inductee to the ACM Senior members.

  • Sep: Congratulations to Seungyoon Shin for her successful dissertation proposal defense at Seoul National University, S. Korea.

  • MID2: 2nd Machine Intelligence Day, Pace University, Dec 4, 2020.

  • Aug 25: Congratulations to Amir, CUNY Graduate Center, Computer Science, on the successful Second Exam.

  • July 10: Speaker at Consulate General of Republic of Korea in New York, "Trust and Governance in the Intelligent Society," The 7Th Forum for the Comparative Studies of Local/State Governments between the US and Korea (virtual).

  • Jun 16-19: online dg.o 2020 conference - Digital Government Research

  • Apr: Congratulations on the acceptance of three posters, one research papers and one tutorial proposal to the dg.o 2020. Good works by students - Roshan Singh, Seungyoon Shin, Amir, Alen.

  • Mar 2: Congratualations to Arwa Alawajy, CUNY Graduate Center, Computer Science, on the successful Dissertation Proposal Defense, March 2, 2020. (Advisor: Raquel Benbunah at Baruch College)

  • Feb 17: Round Table Discussion on Smart Cities: Example Projects in NY and Seoul, With Guest Prof. Daesung Jun, Jeonju University, South Korea, Feb 17, NYC.

  • The ACM Digital Government Research and Practice journal has published its inaugural issue (also here), featuring pioneers looking at past development and looking ahead for future of digital government and digital democracy! (from Science Magazine, Scienmag.com on Feb 25, 2020) [ TOC ] | CUNY Interview on DGOV.


    2019

  • 3nd CARTA Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting, November 13-15, 2019, @Rutgers New Brunswick
  • Our work on the sentiment analysis work on the 2016 presidential election tweets cited in the Washington Post opinion article: "tweets could end up being a scientific treasure" by Robert Gebelhoff on Sep 27, 2019. [ pdf]

  • Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange 2019, September 15, 2019 | New York City

  • I am on sabbatical for F19 and S20 semesters, Visiting Professor of the GovLab (Governance Lab) at the Department of Technology, Culture, and Scoiety at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

  • Chairing A special track on Security, Privacy and Trust in the Big Data and AI Age at FLAIRS 2020 conference (May 17-19, 2020)

  • Co-Chairing a track on the Semantic Web and Applications at ACM SAC2020, Brno, Czech Republic.

  • Co-Chairing Web4City Workshop at Web Intelligence Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, Oct. 14-17, 2019

  • June: Athens, and Tel Aviv.

  • 2019 dg.o conference in Dubai, June 17-21;
    Our poster wins the best poster award ! Congratulations to our team, Avinash and Shengcheng and Rohit!

  • 2nd NSF CARTA Industrial Advisory Board Meeting at NCSU, May 29-31.

  • May 2: ISI students, Victor, Abnerson, Weicong and Ken, present the posters at the Undergraduate Research Conference.

  • April 11: UN Subcommittee, NGO on Migration - presented our visual analytics of migration projects and xenophobia around the globe, Ford Foundation, NY.

  • I am co-chairing Workshop on Web for Smart Cities (Web4City) at the 18th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI '19), October 14-17, 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece

  • Papers on the incident-related events clustering and on the social media use types in government agencies are accepted to dg.o 2019.

  • Our paper on drug abuse behvaior detection is accepted to MedInfo 2019.

  • Jan 28: Congratulations to the MKT/ISI team for winning the GfK Hackathon competition! See the press releases at GfK news , Business Wire at Birkshire Business Company and New York Business Journal

    2018

  • Nov 27 2018: ACM Digital Government Research and Practice (DGOV) journal website is now alive and manuscript submissions are now open.

  • Nov 2018: Invited to the Editorial Board of Int. Journal of Digital Library.

  • Nov 16, 2018: Global Transformation with BlockChain: From Lab to App, AAAS Headquarters, Washington, DC

  • Oct 31-Nov 2: First NSF CARTA Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting UMBC

  • Aug 2018: Published the edited book on Internet of Things Security: Fundamentals, Techniques and Applications ( details)

  • July 2018: A special issue of selected papers from dg.o 2017 on the topic of "Evidence-based Government" published in Information Polity journal in July 2018.

  • June 2018: My Fulbright Scholar work in Seoul National University, Korea.

  • May 2018, New Journal approved: ACM Digital Government- Research and Practice (DGOV). I will serve as Founding co-Editor-in-Chief with Beth Noveck.

  • NSF CARTA Project Strategy Meeting, April 30, 2018, @UMBC
  • Mar 2018: Received a Fulbright Scholarship Award to conduct a research at Seoul National University.

  • Apr 2018: Published - Special issue on Models and Strategies toward Planning and Developing Smart Cities, Int. Jounrnal of E-Planning Research.

  • Track chair (with Yulin Fang and Marijn Janssen), the ICIS 2018 Track on E-Business and E-Government, San Francisco, Dec 2018.

  • Conf. Co-Chair: dg.o 2018 - 19th Int. Conf on Digital Government Research, Delft, the Netherlands, May 30-Jun 1, 2018




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