HRCC Faculty Feature December
December 5, 2021 - Ireland
Happy December! Winter is rolling in and so is another HRCC Featured Faculty of the Month! For December our faculty feature is Tai-Quan "Winson" Peng, Ph.D.
Winson Peng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University.
Dr. Peng's current research interests include computational social science, health communication, mobile analytics, and political communication. He is particularly interested in unraveling the structure and dynamics of human communication phenomena with various computational methods (e.g., network and spatial modeling, text mining, temporal and sequential modeling).
His research outputs appeared in top-ranked journals of communication science, information science, public health, and computer science, such as Communication Methods and Measures, Communication Research, New Media & Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of Informetrics, JASIST, Scientometrics, AIDS Care, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Journal of Medical Internet Research, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and elsewhere.
He was the co-founder and inaugural chair (2016-2017) of the Computational Methods Division at the International Communication Association. He co-edited two special issues on computational communication research published by Communication Methods and Measures and the Asian Journal of Communication, respectively.
Recent Publication:
- Lee, S., Peng, T. Q., Lapinski, M., Turner, M., Jang, Y., & Schaaf, A. (2021). Too stringent or too lenient: Antecedents and consequences of perceived stringency of COVID-19 policies in the United States. Health Policy OPEN, 2, 100047.
- Wang, Y. F., Peng, T. Q., Lu, H. H., Wang, H. R., Xie, X., Qu, H. M., & Wu, Y. C. (2021). Seek for success: A visualization approach for understanding the dynamics of academic careers. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Demo Video
- Peng, T. Q., Zhou, Y. X., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2020). From filled to empty time intervals: Quantifying online behaviors with digital traces. Communication Methods and Measures, 14(4), 219-238.
- Peng, T. Q., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2020). Mobile phone use as sequential processes: From discrete behaviors to sessions of behaviors and trajectories of sessions. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 25(2), 129-146.
- Zhang, Y., Cao, B. L., Wang, Y. F., Peng, T. Q., & Wang, X. H. (2020). When public health research meets social media: Knowledge mapping from 2000 to 2018. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(8), e17582.