http://smu.edu.sg/research/researchevents/bcsi2013

BCSI 2013 @ A*STAR is Day 3 of the Workshop on Analytics for Business, Consumer and Social Insights. It is intended to promote new research and idea sharing on interdisciplinary topics involving Data Analytics and Computational Social Science. Singapore‘s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) is located at One North Science and Business Park. It is the nation‘s agency for fostering world-class scientific research and developing talent for a knowledge-based and innovation-driven Singapore. The visit is hosted by Dr. Yang Yinping, a Research Scientist and Programme Manager in the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC). The day of activities will involve an overview of IHPC’s research activities, a tutorial on video and image analytics, and presentations of innovative scientific and technological research in A*STAR. There will also be a walking tour and a lunch reception to promote interactions between A*STAR’s hosting team and the participants. Welcome!

Title: Video Analytics and Applications for Business, Consumer and Social Insights

Bio: SHEN Jialie is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the School of IS, Singapore Management University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales, Australia in the area of large-scale media retrieval and database access methods. His main research interests include information retrieval, economics-aware media analysis, and statistical machine learning. He is also exploring interdisciplinary research at the intersection of marketing, IS and financial markets. His recent work has been published or is forthcoming in leading journals and international conferences, including ACM SIGIR, ACM Multimedia, ACM SIGMOD, CVPR, ICDE, WWW, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, and ACM Transactions on Information Systems.

Registration is by invitation only. Kindly register your interest to attend by sending an email to: bcsi@smu.edu.sg

Organizer: Supported By:

• Robert J. KAUFFMAN (Summer Institute Chair) Singapore Management University, Singapore • Shantanu DUTTA University of Southern California, USA • Pulak GHOSH Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India • GUO Zhiling Singapore Management University, Singapore • LAU Hoong Chuin Singapore Management University, Singapore • YANG Yinping Agency for Science, Tech. and Research, Singapore • Alejandro ZENTNER University of Texas, Dallas, USA

• Angela KWEK • SU Qi Qi • YEO Yi Ting • FONG Soon Keat Singapore Management University, Singapore

For more information about the event, http://research.larc.smu.edu.sg/mic2013/ Registration is available at: http://research.larc.smu.edu.sg/mic2013/registration.htm • LAU Hoong Chuin Singapore Management University

• Günther RAIDL Vienna University of Technology, Austria

• Pascal Van HENTENRYCK NICTA and University of Melbourne, Australia

Professor SHEN Jialie Singapore Management University

Introduction: Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR Dr. Terence HUNG (Deputy Executive Director; Principal Scientist); Ms. Amy FOO (Industry Dev. Director); Dr. Rick GOH (Director, Computer Science Dept.; Sr. Scientist); Dr. YANG Yinping (Prog. Mgr., Strat. Social Sys.; Scientist, Comput. Social Cognition Group) Tutorial: Video Analytics and Applications for Business, Consumer and Social Insights Prof. SHEN Jialie (School of Info. Sys., Singapore Mgmt. Univ.) Networking Lunch @ Penang Place Restaurant, Fusionopolis and Sky Garden Tour R&D Highlights at IHPC, A*STAR • Advanced Influencer and Sentiment Analysis on Social Networks Dr. QUEK Boon Kiat (Scientist, Computational Social Cognition Group) • Emotion Theory as a Basis for Advanced Social Sentiment Analytics Dr. Kayo SAKAMOTO (Scientist, Computational Social Cognition Group) Dr. WANG Zhaoxia (Scientist, Cross-Disciplinary Data Analytics Group) • Linguistic Theory and Language Processing Architecture for Strategic Public Information and

Communication Enhancement (SPICE) Dr. Sebastian FELLER (Scientist, Intuitive & Interactive Technologies Group) Dr. Martin SAERBECK (Scientist and Capability Group Mgr., Intuitive & Interactive Tech. Group) • Implicit Psychometrics: Extracting Insight from Nontraditional Data Sources Dr. Ilya FARBER (Sr. Scientist; Capability Group Mgr., Comput. Social Cognition Group) • Understanding Urban Dynamics through Complexity Science Dr. Erika LEGARA (Scientist, Cross-Disciplinary Data Analytics Group) Dr. Christopher MONTEROLA (Progr. Mgr., Complex Sys.; Sr. Sci., Cross-Discip. Data Analytics) • SPICE, SMILE, SHINE: Strategies for Public Information Communication, Marketing Intelligence,

and Healthcare Info Enhancement Prof. Rob KAUFFMAN (Assoc. Dean, Research; Dep. Dir., LARC, Singapore Mgmt. Univ.) Dr. YANG Yinping (Progr. Mgr., Strat. Social Sys.; Scientist, Comput. Social Cognition Group) All events will be held at A*STAR, in Fusionopolis. Lunch will be held at Penang Place Restaurant