​Research Projects at Michigan State University
1. Principal Investigator, Trifecta Pilot Funding, 2016-2017
Title: Understanding the Temporal and Structural Dynamics of Emotion toward Emerging Diseases

Research Projects at Nanyang Technological University
1. Principal Investigator, Academic Research Fund Tier 1, 2015-2017                              ​                                    
​Title: Unravelling the Diffusion Dynamics of Viral Marketing Messages: Roles of Structural Positions, Messages Characteristics and Topic Publics
2. Co-Principal Investigator, National Research Foundation, 2015-2018 (Lead-PI: Prof. Theng Yin Leng)      
​Title: Altmetrics: Rethinking and Exploring New Ways of Measuring Research
3. Co-Principal Investigator, National Social Science Foundation of China, 2014-2016 (PI: Dr. Lun Zhang)    
Title: Dynamics of Framing on Public Events in Social Media
4. Principal Investigator, Accelerating Urban Informatics Grant by Microsoft Research Asia, 2014-2015         
Title: Tracking Dynamics of Social Happiness on Twitter: A Multi-level Study
5. Principal Investigator, Start-Up Grant by Nanyang Technological University, 2013-2015                     
Title: Tracking the Dynamics of Public Attention with Search Queries
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