Artificial Intelligence, Web Data Analytics and Mining, Social Computing and Security Informatics

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2006
M.Sc., Insittute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1993
B.Sc., Computer Science Department, Jilin University, China, 1990

Sept. 2018--Present
Chief Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Oct. 2012--Present
Professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
Sept. 2006--2012
Associate Professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
Sept. 2001--2006
Research Assistant, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California 
Jan.--July 2001
Research Scientist, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) 
Sept. 1999--2000
Visiting Scholar, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) 
Aug. 1996--1999
Lecturer, Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
July 1993--1996
Assistant Lecturer, Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class), Chinese Automation Association, 2013
AI Science and Technology Innovation Award (Second Class), Chinese Association on Artificial Intelligence, 2012
Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, University of Southern California, 2006

Books/Chapters 
[1] L. Zhou, L. Kaati, W. Mao and A. Wang (Eds.). Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2015.

[2] C. Yang, W. Mao, X. Zheng and H. Wang (Eds.). Intelligent Systems for Security Informatics. Elsevier, February, 2013.

[3] K. Glass, R. Colbaugh, A. Sanfillippo, A. Kao, M. Gabbay, C. Corley, J. Li, L. Khan, A. Wynne, L. Coote, W. Mao, D. Zeng and A. Yaghoobi (Eds.). Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2013.

[4] W. Mao and F. Wang. Advances in Intelligence and Security Informatics. Academic Press, April, 2012.

[5] M. Chau, A. Wang, X. Zheng, H. Chen, D. Zeng and W. Mao (Eds.). Intelligence and Security Informatics. Springer, 2011.

[6] C. Yang, H. Chen, M. Chau, K. Chang, S. Lang, P. Chen, R. Hsieh, D. Zeng, F. Wang, K. Carley, W. Mao and J. Zhan (Eds.). Intelligence and Security Informatics: PAISI, PACCF and SOCO Workshops. Springer, 2008.

[7] J. Gratch, W. Mao and S. Marsella. Modeling Social Emotions and Social Attributions. In: R. Sun (Ed.), Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: Extending Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation, pp.219-251. Cambridge University Press, January, 2006. 

Journal Papers
[8] Q. Kong, W. Mao, G. Chen and D. Zeng. Exploring Trends and Patterns of Popularity Stage Evolution in Social Media. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 50(10):3817-3827, 2020.

[9] J. Lin, Q. Kong, W. Mao and L. Wang. A Topic Enhanced Approach to Detecting Multiple Standpoints in Web Texts. Information Sciences, 501:483-494, 2019.

[10] G. Chen, Q. Kong, N. Xu and W. Mao. NPP: A Neural Popularity Prediction Model for Social Media Content. Neurocomputing, 333:221-230, 2019.

[11] J. Lin, W. Mao and D. Zeng. Personality-based Refinement for Sentiment Classification in Microblog. Knowledge-Based Systems, 132:204-214, 2017.

[12] D. Zeng and W. Mao. Supporting Global Collective Intelligence via Artificial Intelligence. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 29(2):2-4, March/April, 2014.

[13] P. Su, W. Mao and D. Zeng. An Empirical Study of Cost-Sensitive Learning in Cultural Modeling. Information Systems and e-Business Management, 11(3):437-455, 2013.

[14] W. Mao and J. Gratch. Modeling Social Causality and Responsibility Judgment in Multi-Agent Interactions. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 44:223-273, May, 2012.

[15] W. Mao, J. Gratch and X. Li. Probabilistic Plan Inference for Group Behavior Prediction. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 27(4):27-36, July/August, 2012.

[16] P. Su, W. Mao, D. Zeng and H. Zhao. Mining Actionable Behavioral Rules. Decision Support Systems, 54(1):142-152, December, 2012.

[17] X. Li, W. Mao and D. Zeng. Forecasting Complex Group Behavior via Multiple Plan Recognition. Frontiers of Computer Science, 6(1):102-110, 2012. 

[18] Y. Wang, W. Mao, D. Zeng and F. Xia. Listwise Approaches Based on Feature's Ranking Discovery. Frontiers of Computer Science, 6(6): 647-659, 2012.

[19] W. Mao, A. Ge and X. Li. From Causal Scenario to Social Causality: An Attributional Approach. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 26(6):48-57, November/December, 2011.

[20] Z. Liu, D. Yang, D. Wen, W. Zhang and W. Mao. Cyber-Physical-Social Systems for Command and Control. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 26(4):92-96, 2011.

[21] Q. Yang, Z. Zhou, W. Mao, W. Li and N. Liu. Social Learning. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 25(4):9-11, July/August, 2010.

[22] X. Li, W. Mao, D. Zeng, P. Su and F. Wang. Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning Methods in Cultural Modeling. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 24(6):1010-1017, November, 2009.

[23] W. Mao and J. Gratch. Modeling Social Inference in Virtual Agents. AI & Society, 24(1):5-11, 2009.

[24] B. Martinovski and W. Mao. Emotion as an Argumentation Engine: Modeling the Role of Emotion in Negotiation. Group Decision and Negotiation, 18(3):235-259, 2009.

[25] F. Wang, D. Zeng, K. Carley and W. Mao. Social Computing: From Social Informatics to Social Intelligence. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 22(2):79-83, March/April, 2007.

[26] R. Lu, C. Cao, Y. Chen, W. Mao, W. Chen and Z. Han. A PNLU Approach to Automatic Generation of ICAI Systems. Science in China (Series A), 38(suppl.):1-11, September, 1995. 

Conference Papers 

[27] Z. Zeng, N. Xu and W. Mao. Event-Driven Network for Cross-Modal Retrieval. Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'20), pp.2297-2300. ACM Press, 2020.

[28] P. Wei, J. Zhao and W. Mao. Effective Inter-Clause Modeling for End-to-End Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'20), pp.3171-3181. ACL Press, 2020.

[29] N. Xu, Z. Zeng and W. Mao. Reasoning with Multimodal Sarcastic Tweets via Modeling Cross-Modality Contrast and Semantic Association. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'20), pp.3777-3786. ACL Press, 2020.

[30] P. Wei, N. Xu and W. Mao. Modeling Conversation Structure and Temporal Dynamics for Jointly Predicting Rumor Stance and Veracity. Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'19), pp.4789-4800. ACL Press, 2019.

[31] N. Xu, W. Mao and G. Chen. Multi-Interactive Memory Network for Aspect Based Multimodal Sentiment Analysis. Proceedings of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'19). AAAI Press, 2019.

[32] P. Wei, W. Mao and G. Chen. A Topic-Aware Reinforced Model for Weakly Supervised Stance Detection. Proceedings of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'19). AAAI Press, 2019.

[33] P. Wei and W. Mao. Modeling Transferable Topics for Cross-Target Stance Detection. Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'19), 2019.

[34] X. Xiao, P. Wei, W. Mao and L. Wang. Context-Aware Multi-View Attention Networks for Emotion Cause Extraction. Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI'19). IEEE Press, 2019.

[35] P. Wei, J. Lin and W. Mao. Multi-Target Stance Detection via a Dynamic Memory-Augmented Network. Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'18), 2018.

[36] N. Xu, W. Mao and G. Chen. A Co-Memory Network for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis. Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'18), 2018.

[37] G. Chen, N. Xu and W. Mao. An Encoder-Memory-Decoder Framework for Sub-Event Detection in Social Media. Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'18), 2018.

[38] P. Wei, W. Mao and D. Zeng. A Target-Guided Neural Memory Model for Stance Detection in Twitter. Proceedings of the 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'18), pp.2068-2075, 2018.

[39] N. Xu, G. Chen and W. Mao. MNRD: A Merged Neural Model for Rumor Detection in Social Media. Proceedings of the 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'18), pp.885-891, 2018.

[40] G. Chen, Q. Kong, W. Mao and D. Zeng. A Partition and Interaction Combined Model for Social Event Popularity Prediction. Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI'18), pp.214-219. IEEE Press, 2018.

[41] G. Chen, W. Mao, Q. Kong and H. Han. Event Detection for Social Media by Joint Learning with Keyword Extraction. Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI'18), pp.232-237. IEEE Press, 2018.

[42] J. Lin, W. Mao and Y. Zhang. An Enhanced Topic Modeling Approach to Multiple Stance Identification. Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'17), pp.2167-2170. ACM Press, 2017.

[43] N. Xu and W. Mao. MultiSentiNet: A Deep Semantic Network for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis. Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'17), pp.2399-2402. ACM Press, 2017.

[44] Y. Zhang, W. Mao and D. Zeng. Topic Evolution Modeling in Social Media Short Texts based on Recurrent Semantic Dependent CRP. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, pp.119-124. IEEE Press, 2017.

[45] J. Lin, W. Mao and D. Zeng. Topic and User based Refinement for Competitive Perspective Identification. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2017.

[46] X. Kong and W. Mao. Ranking Events based on User Relevant Query. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2017.

[47] G. Chen, Q. Kong and W. Mao. An Attention-based Neural Popularity Prediction Model for Social Media Events. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2017.

[48] G. Chen, Q. Kong and W. Mao. Online Event Detection and Tracking in Social Media based on Neural Similarity Metric Learning. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2017.

[49] Y. Zhang, W. Mao and J. Lin. Dynamic Topic Modeling in Short Texts. Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge (IEEE ICBK'17), pp.315-319. IEEE Press, 2017.

[50] N. Xu and W. Mao. A Residual Merged Neutral Network for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data Analysis (IEEE ICBDA'17). IEEE Press, 2017.

[51] C. Cui, W. Mao, X. Zheng and D. Zeng. Mining User Intents in Online Interactions: Applying to Discussions about Medical Event on Sina Weibo Platform. Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference for Smart Health (ICSH'17), pp.177-183. Springer, 2017.

[52] Y. Zhang, W. Mao and D. Zeng. A Non-Parametric Topic Model for Short Texts Incorporating Word Coherence Knowledge. Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'16), pp. 2017-2020. ACM Press, 2016.

[53] J. Lin and W. Mao and D. Zeng. Competitive Perspective Identification via Topic based Refinement for Online Documents. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2016.

[54] Q. Kong, W. Mao and C. Liu. Popularity Prediction Based on Interactions of Online Contents. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS'16), pp. 1-5. IEEE Press, 2016.

[55] J. Lin and W. Mao. Personality based Public Sentiment Classification in Microblog. Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2015.

[56] Y. Zhang, X. Li and W. Mao. A Bottom-up Method for Constructing Topic Hierarchies from Political Media Data. Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2015.

[57] Y. Zhang, W. Mao and D. Zeng. Constructing Topic Hierarchies from Social Media Data. Proceedings of the ICDM Workshops 2015 (ISI-ICDM'15), pp. 1015-1018. IEEE Press, 2015.

[58] Q. Kong, W. Mao, D. Zeng and L. Wang. Predicting Popularity of Forum Threads for Public Events Security. Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Joint Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (JISIC'14), pp.99-106. IEEE Press, 2014.

[59] Y. Zhang, W. Mao, D. Zeng, N. Zhao and X. Bao. Exploring Opinion Dynamics in Security-Related Microblog Data. Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Joint Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (JISIC'14), pp.284-287. IEEE Press, 2014.

[60] W. Mao and J. Gratch. Modeling Social Causality and Responsibility Judgment in Multi-Agent Interactions: Extended Abstract. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'13), 2013.

[61] L. Huangfu, W. Mao, D. Zeng and L. Wang. OCC Model-Based Emotion Extraction from Online Reviews. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2013.

[62] Q. Kong, W. Mao and D. Zeng. Predicting User Participation in Social Networking Sites. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2013.

[63] A. Ge, W. Mao, D. Zeng, Q. Kong and H. Zhu. Extracting Action Knowledge in Security Informatics. Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2012.

[64] Z. Tan, W. Mao, D. Zeng, X. Li and X. Bao. Acquiring Netizen Group's Opinions for Modeling Food Safety Events. Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2012.

[65] X. Li, W. Mao, D. Zeng and H. Zhu. Forecasting Group Behavior via Multiple Plan Recognition. Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2011.

[66] P. Su, W. Mao, D. Zeng and H. Zhao. Mining Actionable Behavioral Rules from Group Data. Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2011.

[67] X. Li, W. Mao, D. Zeng and F. Wang. Automatic Construction of Domain Theory for Attack Planning. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, pp.65-70. IEEE Press, 2010.

[68] P. Su, W. Mao, D. Zeng, X. Li and F. Wang. Handling Class Imbalance Problem in Cultural Modeling. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, pp.251-256. IEEE Press, 2009.

[69] X. Li, W. Mao, D. Zeng, P. Su and F. Wang. Performance Evaluation of Classification Methods in Cultural Modeling. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics. IEEE Press, 2009.

[70] X. Li, W. Mao, D. Zeng and F. Wang. Agent-Based Social Simulation and Modeling in Social Computing. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Social Computing (SOCO'08), pp.401-412. Springer, 2008.

[71] X. Li, D. Zeng, W. Mao and F. Wang. Online Communities: A Social Computing Perspective. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Social Computing (SOCO'08), pp.355-365. Springer, 2008.

[72] W. Mao, D. Zeng, L. Zhang, D. Wei and F. Wang. Social Modeling and Reasoning for Security Informatics. Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics. Springer, 2007.

[73] W. Mao and J. Gratch. Evaluating a Computational Model of Social Causality and Responsibility. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'06), pp.985-992. ACM Press, 2006.

[74] J. Gratch, S. Marsella and W. Mao. Towards a Validated Model of Emotional Intelligence. Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'06), pp.1613-1616. AAAI Press, 2006.

[75] W. Mao and J. Gratch. Social Causality and Responsibility: Modeling and Evaluation. Proceedings of the Fifth International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'05), pp.191-204. Springer, 2005.

[76] B. Martinovski, W. Mao, J. Gratch and S. Marsella. Mitigation Theory: An Integrated Approach. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp.1407-1412. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.

[77] W. Mao and J. Gratch. Social Judgment in Multiagent Interactions. Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'04), pp.210-217. IEEE Press, 2004.

[78] W. Mao and J. Gratch. A Utility-Based Approach to Intention Recognition. AAMAS 2004 Workshop on Agent Tracking: Modeling Other Agents from Observations (MOO'04), 2004.

[79] W. Mao and J. Gratch. The Social Credit Assignment Problem. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'03), pp.39-47. Springer, 2003.

Journal Services
ACM Computing Surveys, Associate Editor (2013.1-)

IEEE Intelligent Systems, Associate Editor (2011.3-)

Journal of Software, Executive Editor (2011-)

Journal of Software, Special Issue on Social Computing: Theory and Methods, Lead Guest Editor (2014)

Information Systems & e-Business Management, Special Issue on Social Computing and e-Business, Guest Co-Editor (2012)

IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on Social and Economic Computing, Lead Guest Editor (2011)

IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on Social Learning, Guest Co-Editor (2010)

Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Special Issue on Security Informatics and Social Computing, Guest Co-Editor (2009) 

Conference/Workshop Services
Co-Chair: ISI-KDD 2012, PAISI 2011, SOCO 2011, GAMEON-ASIA 2010
PC Co-Chair: IEEE ICBK-DKME 2017, IEEE ISI 2015, SOCO 2008-2009, SOCO 2013
Poster Co-Chair: IEEE ISI 2011
SPC, PC Member/Session Chair: AAAI, AAMAS, Agent, AMT, ASTEC, CCDM, CCIS, EUROMEDIA, FOSINT-SI, GAMEON, GAMEON-NA, IEEE-ISI, IJCAI, IVA, NCSC, PAAMS, PAISI, PRIMA, SID, SMP, WI, etc 

Refereeing
ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, IEEE Computational Intelligence, IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal, etc

Society Services
ACM Beijing Chapter, Chair (2012-2014)
ACM Social and Economic Computing Chapter, Treasurer (2010-2012)
Chinese Association on Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Council (2010-2016)