Prof. Céline Yunya SONG

Prof Song, an Associate Professor in the Department of Interactive Media, is also the Director of the School of Communication’s Artificial Intelligence and Media Research Lab. A former journalist, Prof Song now finds herself collaborating regularly with computer scientists and social network analysts on cutting-edge interdisciplinary projects. She is a visiting Fulbright scholar at Cornell University from 2019-2020. She is the editor of Communication & Society and the associate editor of Quality and Quantity, and Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia. She serves as the Award Chair of Chinese Communication Association and the Mass Communication and Society Division of AEJMC.

Prof Song’s numerous honours include being a two-time recipient of the prestigious Fulbright award. Her research projects have been awarded a series of internal and external grants, including from the General Research Fund, Quality Education Fund, Public Policy Research Fund, as well as an external grant from the Social Media Lab at Ryerson University, Canada, and CONVERGE COVID-19 Working Group Award, USA. In 2017, she received the HKBU President’s Award for Outstanding Young Researcher.