Web Ming Lab forms strategic collaboration with Fudan New Media Lab

Web Ming Lab forms strategic collaboration with Fudan New Media Lab

Only July 18, Jonathan Zhu and Prof. Minghua Yin (dean of Journalism School, Fudan University) signed a memorandum to establish a strategical collaboration between the Web Mining Lab of City University of Hong Kong and the Shanghai New Media Lab of Fudan University. Under the framework, the two labs will carry out joint projects on research, training, grant seeking, tool development, and other activities of basic and applied research.

The Shanghai New Media Lab is a research center funded by the city of Shanghai and housed in School of Journalism at Fudan. It brings to the collaboration cutting-edge facilities and close ties with new media industries in Shanghai and nearby Yangtze River Delta, which are complemented by Web Mining Lab’s technical expertise and international networks. Among the first batch of joint projects is a computational workshop for social media analysts and educators, to be held at Fudan later 2015. Stay tuned for updates on the workshop and other events.