Admissions to the "Beijing Shishu New Communication Summer Workshop" Program

Yu Guo Ming

Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Director of Academic Committee, School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University. Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholar, Ministry of Education. He is an expert who enjoys the special allowance of the State Council. His main part-time positions are member of the Disciplinary Review Group of Journalism and Communication of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, Vice Chairman of the Beijing Social Science Federation, President of the China Society of Media Economics, Editor-in-Chief of China Media Development Index (Blue Book), Editor-in-Chief of China Social Opinion Annual Report (Blue Book), etc. His main research areas focus on network public opinion monitoring, big data mining, media economy and social development, cognitive neuroscience and communication science.

Zhu Jianhua

Professor, Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong; Founder, Internet Mining Lab; Fellow, International Communication Association. D. from Indiana University, USA. He has taught at Fudan University, Shanghai, Conneticut University, USA and City University of Hong Kong. His main research interests: Internet use and effects, media management informatization, internationalization and localization of communication research, etc. He has created the "zero-sum game theory" in the study of media agenda setting in the U.S., and proposed the "digital divide index" and "trade-off demand theory" in the study of Internet proliferation and usage. He has also published in Public Opinion Quarterly. He has been published in Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Human Communication Research, Political Communication, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journals of Public Opinion Research, and Journal of Communication Research, He has published more than 100 papers in English in SSCI journals such as Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Human Communication Research, Political Communication, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, academic monographs and international academic conferences.

Bi Yanchao

He is a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He received his PhD in Brain, Cognition, and Behavior from the Department of Psychology, Harvard University in 2006. He is a Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, the Chief Scientist of the "973" Young Scientist Program, a recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Outstanding Youth Fund, a Northern Brain Scholar, a Young Talent of the Ministry of Organization, and a recipient of the New Century Talent Fund of the Ministry of Education. He received the Sackler Scholars Programme in Psychobiology Award and the Rising Star Award from the American Psychological Science Association. He is the director of Beijing Neuroscience Society.

Liu Wei

D., Associate Researcher, Head of UX Master Direction in the Department of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Fulbright Research Scholar in China and USA, Director of World Chinese Overseas Chinese Human-Computer Interaction Association. Since 2004, he has been actively promoting the research and teaching of UX and interaction design, establishing the first UX master's program in China and facilitating many collaborations between domestic and foreign universities and enterprises. He holds a PhD in interaction design research from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and is the first person from China in this direction.

Mike Yao (Yao Zhengyu)

Professor of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor at the Gies School of Business, Chair of the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, Institute for Communication Research, Cline Center for Advanced Social Science Research, and Fellow at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. He is a research fellow at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication and a member of the editorial boards of several leading SSCI journals. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2006 with a B.A. in Psychology and Film and a Ph.D. in Communication. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he taught in the Department of Media and Communication at the City University of Hong Kong for 9 years and headed its online behavioral and eye-movement research lab. He has also worked as a research consultant for various international companies and organizations such as PARC and Google on projects in education technology, web control, and big data mining.

Liu Jiaying

Associate Professor, School of Communication, University of Georgia. D. in communication from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include health communication, social psychology, media effects, computational social science methods, cognitive neuroscience, and eye-tracking research. Her research interests lie in understanding risky social decision making, the influences and underlying mechanisms of how communication promotes desirable health behaviors. Her articles have been published in major journals in communication, public health and psychology such as Journal of Communication, Journal of Computer-mediated Communication, Health Communication. She serves as an Associate Editor of Health Communication. In recent years, she has received a five-year $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).