Senior Member Awards

02/20/2020 - Professional organizations in AI, IS, and computing awarded their prestigious senior memberships. The Association for Advancements of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) presented Senior Member awards to Dr. Wingyan Chung to recognize his long-standing contribution and membership to the organizations. ... more >

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Top Ranking in DARPA SocialSim Challenge
	06/25/2019 - CI Lab achieves top national ranking in DARPA challenge. The SIMON team led by PI Dr. Wingyan Chung and CI Lab members was ranked among top 3 teams in the June 2019 DARPA SocialSim Challenge event. ... more >

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Excellence in Research Award
	04/03/2019 - UCF recognizes research excellence of Dr. Wingyan Chung. UCF VP of Research, Dr. Elizabeth Klonoff, bestows the Excellence in Research Award to Dr. Chung to recognize his contribution to research. The award is given to only one faculty member in each college in UCF annually. ... more >

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FC2 Student Poster Presentation
	04/03/2018 - Two student posters were accepted for presentation at the Florida Center for Cybersecurity's Annual Research Symposium. CI Lab members, Dr. Jinwei Liu (Postdoc) and Mr. Yifan Huang (PhD student), authored the posters under the supervision of Dr. Wingyan Chung. Dr. Xinlin Tang of Florida State University is also a co-author of both posters. ... more >

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PNNL visits CI Lab
	03/02/2018 - The visit was aimed at helping the participants understand the evaluation platform for use in research and testing. The one-day workshop was held in Institute for Simulation and Training. ... more >

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Meeting with U.S. Consul General in HK

12/11/2017 - The meeting was a celebration of the U.S.-Hong Kong academic exchange and 50 years of IIE presence in Hong Kong. Dr. Wingyan Chung was invited by Kurt W. Tong to the celebration held at Mr. Tong's residence in Hong Kong. Many luminaries attended the celebration, including IIE President, Allan Goodman, and former Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of HKSAR Government, Dr. K. C. Chan. Headquartered in New York, the Institute for International Education (IIE) collaborates with a range of corporate, government and foundation partners across the globe to design and manage scholarship, study abroad, workforce training and leadership development programs. ... more >

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Best Paper Award at ICCD
	12/09/2017 - The 2017 International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, and Devices bestowed the Best Paper Award to Dr. Wingyan Chung. The paper reports preliminary results of a cybersecurity project. Arvind Sura, a master's student at UCF, is a co-author of the paper. ... more >

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Presentation at IEEE ISI Conference 2017
	07/19/2017 - Three papers were presented at the IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference. Criminal intelligence surveillance, cybersecurity informatics, and an efficient intelligence classification technique are the foci of these papers. ... more >

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FC2 Awards Cybersecurity Project
	07/01/2017 - The Florida Center for Cybersecurity has awarded a seed grant to UCF to conduct a cybersecurity research project. The project PI, Dr. Wingyan Chung, collaborates with co-PI, Dr. Xinlin Tang of Florida State University, on detecting cognitive hacking in financial social media. The project is among the twelve projects funded by the FC2 center. ... more >

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Fulbright US Scholarship Award
	06/10/2017 - The U.S. Department of State awards its prestigious Fulbright Core US Scholarship to Dr. Wingyan Chung to conduct a cybersecurity research project in collaboration with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Chung will visit the CUHK Business School to build and develop the research partnership. ... more >

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LEAD Scholar Program Award
	01/15/2017 - Dr. Wingyan Chung was selected to serve as a faculty mentor for the UCF LEAD Scholar Program. The award provides funding for an undergraduate student to conduct research under direct supervision of Dr. Chung. ... more >

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New Course on Cybersecurity Informatics
	10/31/2016 - The new course introduces fundamental concepts, techniques, and tools in managing, analyzing, and interpreting data for cybersecurity informatics. Intel Security Curriculum Initiative provided generous support in the course development. ... more >

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JIPS Special Issue
	09/30/2016 - The Journal of Information Privacy and Security publishes a special issue titled "Social Media Analytics: Security and Privacy Issues." The articles published in the special issue address diverse topics of privacy protection, informatics research, educational development, and personnel security that relate to social media analytics. ... more >

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PhD student publication in IEEE ISI16
	09/28/2016 - Mr. Brandon Jones, a second-year computer engineering PhD student, authored a paper that was published in the Doctoral Consortium of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics held at Tucson, Arizona (see picture). Co-authored with Dr. Wingyan Chung, the paper describes new approaches to modeling topics of relevance to terrorism informatics. ... more >

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Invited Lecture on Business Analytics
	09/27/2016 - The UCF Statistics course STA5703 Data Mining Methodology I features an invited lecture on business analytics. Dr. Wingyan Chung delivered the lecture to a group of Ph.D. and masters students in the business administration building. He introduced concepts and techniques in business intelligence and presented relevant applications in the class. ... more >

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Cybersecurity Simulation Research
	09/02/2016 - The JIPS publishes a new article on a simulation-based approach to predicting influence in social media community. The research shows that the approach accurately modeled real-world SM community behavior. ... more >

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I/ITSEC Conference in Orlando

08/26/2016 - Two papers are accepted to the 2016 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education (I/ITSEC) conference. One paper examines dynamic social-media network modeling. The lead author, Wingyan Chung, co-mentored Ph.D. student Bingbing Rao with CS faculty Liqiang Wang in the research. Another paper authored by Chung reports a study on social media discussion on illegal cyber activities. ... more >

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Cybersecurity Talk at CUHK
	06/27/2016 - Dr. Wingyan Chung presented on cybersecurity research at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The presentation focuses on developing and applying social media analytics for enhancing cybersecurity. Ph.D. students and faculty from the CUHK Business School attended the talk. ... more >

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Invited Lecture on Natural Language Processing
	03/15/2016 - The UCF graduate course CAP6640 Natural Language Processing features an invited lecture on "Vector Semantics and NLP Applications". Dr. Wingyan Chung delivered the invited lecture to a group of Ph.D. and masters students in the class. This graduate class has prerequisites of knowledge in machine learning. ... more >

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In-House Research Grant
	02/19/2016 - UCF provides an in-house grant to support cybersecurity research. The project examines sentiment and opinions of the communities that are concerned with illegal trafficking online. ... more >

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Presentation at ICIS

12/13/2015 - Dr. Wingyan Chung presents at a top-tier international conference in the field of information systems. Published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, the paper titled "eMood: Modeling Emotion for Social Media Analytics on Ebola Disease Outbreak" describes an innovative approach to examining the social media community on ebola disease outbreak. Held at Fort Worth, Texas, the conference is the most prestigious in the field of information systems and its acceptance rate is typically below 20%. ... more >

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Funding Support from Intel Corporation

09/24/2015 - Intel Corporation provides $25,000 to support cybersecurity curricular development. The project is funded by Intel Corporation’s Security Curriculum Initiative through their donation of $25,000 to the UCF Foundation. Dr. Wingyan Chung is the principal investigator. The goal of the project is to develop context-specific curricular modules for a new course in cybersecurity informatics. ... more >

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Publications in High-Impact Journals

06/01/2015 - Two publications co-authored by Dr. Wingyan Chung appear in Scientific Reports (IF=5.6) and JMIR (IF=4.7) respectively. The papers, titled "Characterizing Social Interaction in Tobacco-Oriented Social Networks: An Empirical Analysis" and "Exploring what and how tobacco industry present themselves in social media", report findings from empirical studies that examine social media content and user interaction related to tobacco product promotio. Just Test ... more >

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NSF Workshop on Computing in Context

05/13/2015 - The workshop focuses on developing curricular materials and pedagogies for the field of intelligence and security informatics. The NSF Workshop on Curricular Development for Computing in Context focuses on developing curricular materials for the field of intelligence and security informatics. Dr. Wingyan Chung is the chair of the workshop. Proceedings of the workshop is published by the Association for Computing Machinery). ... more >

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