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Wei Pan (潘巍)panwei --@AT@-- media.mit.eduE15-388 20 Ames St Cambridge, MA 02139 |
Artificial Social Intelligence
I am a Ph.D student at MIT Media Lab, and my works are about humans, interactions, social networks, big data and mobile systems. I am in the Human Dynamics Group led by my advisor Sandy Pentland.
I try to understand why and how people interact with other people, from economic, social and behavioral perspectives. My works are often targeted at what can we learn from social interactions and behaviors, but my goal is to really change the way we measure social intelligence and more importantly, to help people better act socially. I call this research "artificial social intelligence". I also do interesting
things such as the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge.
Bio
I am a graduate student in the Human Dynamics Group of MIT Media Lab. Before that, I spent two years in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College. I got my B.Eng. from Tsinghua University in 2007, in computer science, which is the MIT in China (at least I believe so).I've worked in Google Research China and a couple of start-ups in China.
News
January 2012: I am named a IDCubed Fellow. Check out here.
January 2012: A preliminary draft of our new paper (mainly thanks to Yaniv) on trend prediction is in Arxiv.
November 2011: A video demonstrating how mobile applications spread in a social network is online. See link here: youtube.
October 2011: Finally..... A paper accepted in Science! Please go here to see. Also please see official AAAS/Science Press Release with my audio interview and video.
August 2011: Three paper accepted in IEEE SocialCom 2011 and NetMob 2011 Workshop on Analysis of Mobile Phone Data. Both of them are located in the Media Lab at the same time in early October, drop by for my talks!
2011: Funf Open Sensing Platform. Click 
Works on Mobile Sensing Featured in 
