Jia Jia, PhD

PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

1. RESEARCH STATEMENT   

My research focuses on social affective computing. In particular, I am interested in emotion quantization, modeling methods and interactive applications. Facing the large-scale social media data, my research motivations come from the following issues and challenges: 1) the traditional approach to measuring emotions based on simple categories has encountered limitations, which is not enough to accurately profile users’ complex emotions and describe the diversity among users; 2) social media data are large-scale, heterogeneous and temporal, which brings challenges to integrate the text, image, speech, as well as users’ demographics and social attributes (e.g. users’ gender, age, occupation, friend relationship, group relationship, etc.) into the modeling process in a temporal mode; and 3) applying affective computing methods for analyzing and predicting users’ mental health is a valuable research topic, which could contribute to prevent dangerous incidents and encourage users by positive and scientific way to promote their life quality.

2. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS   

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