Selected Projects

• RGC ECS (PI): Conversation-based Reasoning for Explainable Fake News Detection via Weakly Supervised Evidence Detection
• NSFC YSF (PI): 基于社交关系的新闻自动摘要与虚假信息对抗
   

Academic Services

• Conference Area Chair (AC): AACL 2023, NAACL 2024, ACL 2024, EMNLP 2024, NLPCC 2024
• Workshop Organizer: Preventing and Detecting LLM Generated Misinformation@AAAI-25
• Conference Session co-Chair: COLING 2020
• Conference Program Committee Member (PC): WSDM 2023-2024, EACL 2023, AACL 2022, WWW 2021 2023-2024, PAKDD 2024, CIKM 2020, AAAI 2019-2022, ACL 2019, EMNLP 2018-2019, AI 2019
• Journal Reviewer:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
  • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
  • PLOS ONE
  • Neurocomputing
• External Reviewer: IJCAI 2020, ACL 2015-2017, EMNLP 2015-2017, SIGIR 2016-2017, CIKM 2016, PACLIC 2016, ASONAM 2016-2019
   

Recognition, Achievements, and Events

• Top Five Outstanding TIST Articles for Jing Ma, Wei Gao, Shafiq Joty, and Kam-Fai Wong, An Attention-based Rumor Detection Model with Tree-structured Recursive Neural Networks, TIST (2020), pages 1-28.
• Recognised as one of “The 2022 Women in AI” by AMiner (2022).
• Recognised as “The World’s top 2% scientists” released by Stanford University (2022).
• Selected into “2023 AI Chinese Female Young Scholars list (2023 AI 华人女性青年学者榜)” (2023).  

Invited Talks

• “Large Language Model for Social Safety”, Keynote Speaker at SSNLP 2024, Singapore, Nov 6th, 2024.
• “Large Language Model: Background, Techniques and our development”, at How Well Can AI Assist Us in Coding and Grading Tasks?, Hong Kong, Nov 30th, 2023.
• “Social Context Assisted Fact-checking via Weakly Supervised Learning” at AI NEW HORIZONS 2023: A Symposium with Scientific Leaders, Hong Kong, Nov 18th, 2023.
• “Social Context Assisted Fake News Detection and Stance Detection” at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, Apr 11st, 2023.
• “Social Context Assisted Fake News Detection and Stance Detection” at Jilin University, China, Apr 6th, 2023.
• “Social Assisted Rumor Detection and Fake News Detection” at Turing NLP Special Interest Group, London, Mar 23rd, 2023.
• “Chatbot and NLP” at AIDM Lecture Series 2023, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Feb 7th, 2023.
• “Combating Misinformation in the Era of Social Media” at Jilin University, China, Sep 13rd, 2022.
• “Combating Misinformation in the Era of Social Media” at Fudan University, China, Jul 1st, 2022.
• “Detect Rumors on Twitter by Promoting Information Campaigns with Generative Adversarial Learning” at Singapore Management University, Singapore, Apr 3rd, 2019.
• “Introduction to Rumor-related Research from Social media” at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, Mar 29th, 2018.
• “Deep Neural Models on Rumor Detection from Social Media” at University of Electric Science and Technology of China, China, Sep 9th, 2018.