SICSS were created to provide free training to the next generation of researchers at the intersection of social science and data science— and to incubate cutting-edge research across disciplinary boundaries.
SICCS-SG Group Photo at NUS CTIC
Participants from all over the world consisting of graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and early faculty members with varying backgrounds from the computational and data sciences to psychology and communication studies gathered for a two-week intensive summer camp led by Professor Jack Linchuan Qiu, Assistant Professor Subhayan Mukerjee and Assistant Professor Renwen Zhang from the Department of Communications and New Media and Principal Investigators of NUS CTIC.
Lectures at NUS CTIC, Conference Room
The participants heard lectures in the fields ranging from using AI and machine learning for detecting online incivility to modelling the dynamics of social networks and behaviour by leading academics in local and overseas universities and industry experts from Twitter and the Institute of High-Performance Computing, A*STAR. The learnings were reinforced by group training exercises and culminated in participants-led interdisciplinary research projects to tackle real-world social challenges with computational social science.
View the lecture videos on the YouTube’s playlist here!