Grant|Award|Recognitions
External Grants
Collaborator, MIT-Lincoln Laboratory (Award Number: PO 7000506684), $280,000 (2020—2021)
Title: Designing effective intervention points for adversarial influence operations.
Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation (Award Number: 2027387), Total 74,000 (2020-2022)
Title: Rumor Diffusion during UnrestPrincipal Investigator. Social Science Research Council (Social Media and Democracy Grants), Total 48,988 (2020-2022)
Title: Facebook Information Diffusion and Protest Mobilization: State-level Analyses of the 2018 March for Our Lives DemonstrationsPrincipal Investigator. DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory-Army Research Office (Award Number: W911NF1910066 ), Total 328,653 (2019–2023)
Title: Crisis and Collective Problem-Solving on the Darkweb: Understanding Crisis Information Processing in Hidden Cyber CommunitiesCollaborator. Department of Education (Award Number: P016A160053), Total 189,697 (3% contribution) (2016-2018)
Title: Asia Mediated: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Innovation at Arizona
State UniversityPrincipal Investigator. AEJMC-Emerging Scholars Award, Total 3,500 (2017-2018)
Title: News Proximity and Social Media Framing of Terrorism: A Computational Approach toward Large-Scale Framing ResearchCo-Principal Investigator. The Gates Foundation: Digital Media Learning Competition, Total 154,018 (2013-2014)
Title: Evaluating Microcredentialing in Public Networked Environments
Internal Grants
Principal Investigator. ASU Global Security Initiative - Center of Narrative, Disinformation & Strategic Influence, DNSI Small Grant, Total 9,800 (2022)
Principal Investigator. ASU Institute for Social Science Research, Seed Grant, Total 7,587 (2021)
Title: The Dynamics of Networked Public Attention and Social Movement: An Exploration of Intermedia and Intergenerational Framing of Gun Control MovementPrincipal Investigator. ASU Institute for Social Science Research, Seed Grant, Total 7,984 (2020)
Title: Misinformation and Political Unrest: An Investigation of Rumor Diffusion Online and Offline during the 2019 Hong Kong ProtestsPrincipal Investigator. ASU Institute for Social Science Research, Seed Grant, Total 6,000 (PI, 2017)
Title: Crisis and Collective Sensemaking in Darkweb Hacker CommunitiesPrincipal Investigator. University at Buffalo-Mark Diamond Dissertation Research Grant, Total 2,000 (2009-2010)
Awards|Fellowships
The US-Korean NextGen Scholar (2020-21)
Center for Strategic & International StudiesEmerging Scholars Award (2017)
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass CommunicationVisiting Scholar-in-Residence (2016)
Social Media Lab at Ted Rogers School of Management
Ryerson University, Toronto, CanadaHerbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award (2nd Runner-up) (2011)
Communication and Technology Division
International Communication AssociationBest Faculty Paper honorable mention (2012)
Korean American Communication Division
International Communication AssociationKappa Tao Alpha Research Award (2008)
National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass CommunicationJung-Sook Lee Award (2008)
Communication and Technology Division
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass CommunicationTop Four Paper Award (2007)
Peace Communication Division
National Communication Association
Advisory Board / Editorship
ASU President's Academic Council (2021 - present)
Advisory Board, Korean Press Foundation, South Korea (2020)
Project: Media Users in South KoreaStakeholder Engagement, Facebook Inc. (2019/2020)
Content Policy: Rumors and Offline Violence (Oct 2019)
Content Policy: Response to COVID-19 (Apr 2020)Associate Editor, Journal of Communication Technology (2021 - present)
Editorial Board, Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia (2018 - present)
International Advisory Board, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea (2020 – present)
Department of Interaction Science
Department of Applied Artificial IntelligenceEditorial Board, International Journal of Communication Technology for Social Networking Services (2015 - present)
Invited Collaborations
Research Collaborator, Social Media Lab at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada (2020-2024)
Project: The Rise of Anti-Social Behaviour in Social MediaExternal Co-Investigator, Hong Kong Baptist University (2018-Present)
Project: Mapping the Status of Political Incivility in Hong Kong’s Digital Space: From the Umbrella Movement to the Anti-Extradition Protests