Wei Pan (潘巍)

panwei --@AT@-- media.mit.edu
E15-388
20 Ames St
Cambridge, MA 02139

Past News

*September 2012: Presenting new work on how social network dynamics affect traders' decisions in financial markets in SocialCom 2012. Please read the paper here.
*June 2012: I won the "Best Contributed Talk Award" from NetSci 2012 . I have two papers in the venue.
*January 2012: I am named a IDCubed Fellow. Check out here.
*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!
*August 2011: New paper accepted in Signal Processing Magazine. This paper has been out for a while, and you can read the Technology Review story about it.
*June 2011: New paper accepted in UbiComp 2011. This paper is about the big "Friends and Family Study" as well as the mobile sensing software, which you can download here. The paper can be downloaded here. Don't forget to cite us.
*April 2011: New paper accepted in AAAI 2011 entitled "Composite Social Network for Predicting Mobile App Installations". Please download the full text of the paperhere. Read the blog post I wrote for details here.
*Please notice my blog is up: Link.
*March 2011: I gave a talk at Microsoft Research Redmond.
*January 2011: Together with Yves-Alexandre and Harvard folks, we built a demo and it was shown in World Ecnomic Forum. Read more here. It is also demoed at the Media Lab Spring sponsor week.
*December 2010: I delivered two talks in NIPS Workshop on Computational Social Science and Denver UASI Conference.
*November 2010: I delivered a talk at NECINA: US media coverage.
*October 2010: I was recognized as "Emerging Leader in Signal Processing and MultiMedia" by IBM Research and invited to talk at TJ Watson: Official Description Page.
*September 2010: My research is highlighted by Technology Review Arxiv Blog: How To Tell Who is Influencing Whom in a Group Discussion.
*June 2010: I am involved in the inaugural EmTech China: Sina.com.cn report (in Chinese).
*Dec. 2009: I won the DARPA Network Challenge: DARPA Official Release.
*June 2009: My research paper on mobile-driven sensing is picked up by media: Tech Review, Slashdot and my favorite ACM 09 Annual Report for SIGMOBILE.