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People: Ph.D. Student Profile
Xiaodan Zhou
mrzhou@umich.edu
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Background:
BE in Computer Science, Shandong University, China, 2002
MSI in IEMP, U-M School of Information, 2008
Advisor(s):
Research Tags:
- social computing
- online communities
- incentive centered design
Bio/Research Statement:
Daniel got his bachelor's degree in Computer Science in China, and worked for 4 years in the IT industry (including 2 years w/ IBM China Software Dev Lab) before he joined SI. His research interests include social computing, CSCW, human computation, online communities, incentive-centered design, information economics, recommender systems, HCI, online deliberation, and e-democracy. He is now trying to figure out which area deserves most of his passion and attention.
Current Research:
Daniel's major current project is to develop the Pivots module recommendation system for Drupal.org. The grand goal is to redesign online conversation through the idea of "pivots", which is based on text mining and recommender system techniques.
His next research agenda is to study online deliberation and online communities that could potentially promote democracy in China. This is going to be the prelim research, but has not started yet.
His side projects include: 1) to build a website for the Chinese community in Michigan, 2) to build a website for the now underground China Green Party, 3) to develop the expertise tagging Facebook app, and so on.
Recent Publications:
- 2008: Zhou, D. X., Oostendorp, N., Hess, M., & Resnick, P. (2008). Conversation Pivots and Double Pivots. Paper presented at the ACM CHI2008.
Profile last updated Aug 20, 2008.
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Cal Lee (MSI '99, Ph.D. '05) is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina. At SI he distinguished himself with his research in the archives and records management field. In 2002, Lee was the first winner of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in the information sciences or librarianship. The award is sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information and "recognizes not only outstanding scholarship and intellectual rigor, but also civic responsibility, democratic values, and imagination, honoring the memory of CNI founding executive director Paul Evan Peters."
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