My Intellectual Journey since 1997

Work Experience

July 2023 -
- Professor, Department of Communication, Michigan State University, United States of America
August 2016 - June 2023
- Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Communication, Michigan State University, United States of America
September 2013 - June 2016
- Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
September 2009 - June 2013
- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau
September 2008 - August 2009
- Research Fellow, Web Mining Lab, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2005-2008, Ph.D. in Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2002-2005, M.A. in Communication, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
1997-2001, B.A. in Management, Institute of International Relations, Beijing, China

2025 -
- Editor-in-Chief, Human Communication Research
2022 - 2024
- Associate Editor, Journal of Communication
2019 -
- Editorial Board Member, Computational Communication Research
2019 -
- Editorial Board Member, Communication Methods and Measures
2018 -
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
2018 -
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
2019
- Guest Editor, Asian Journal of Communication
2018
- Guest Editor, Communication Methods and Measures
2014 - 2018
- Book Review Editor, Asian Journal of Communication
2018, 2019, 2020
- Chair, Ad hoc Best Paper Committee, Computational Methods Division, International Communication Association
2016 - 2017
- Co-founder and Inaugural Chair, Computational Methods Interest Group, International Communication Association

September 2017 -
- Associate Member, Center for Communication Research, City University of Hong Kong
September 2016 -
- Member, Health & Risk Communication Center, Michigan State University
September 2009 -
- Member, Web Mining Lab, City University of Hong Kong
April 2017 - December 2020
- Quello Research Fellow, Quello Center, Michigan State University
June 2014
- Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research