All you want to know about AI and social networking

All you want to know about AI and social networking
——The 2019 Joint Conference on Social Networks, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

The 2019 Joint Conference on Social Networks, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence took place at Wenzhou-Kean University (WKU) today. This conference aimed to promote the communication of theoretical and practical applications of social networks, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, and to drive the development of regional digital economy and related industries. Meanwhile, it aimed to attract international talents from relevant fields to work in Wenzhou, and promote WKU community’s international research cooperation in the field of social network and artificial intelligence.

The Joint Conference was hosted by Optics and Photonics Society of Singapore-China and Association for Social Networks and Social Networks Innovation Center, Taiwan, China, and organized by WKU. It was composed of two international conferences: MISNC 2019, the sixth Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference and PRAI 2019, International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 2019. The Joint Conference would last three days as scheduled.

Dr. George Chang, Dean of the School of Natural Sciences at Kean University, New Jersey, USA, also the Vice Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Joint Conference, said, “These two conferences are jointly held in China for the first time. MISNC has been held five times in different countries: 2014 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2015 in Matsuyama, Japan, 2016 in Kean University, New Jersey, USA, 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand, 2018 in Saint-Étienne, France; PRAI was held for the first time at Kean University, New Jersey, USA in 2018.”

Dr. George Chang , Dean of the School of Natural Sciences at Kean University, New Jersey, USA

“International conferences like this time hosted at WKU will help its professors connect with international communities. It also enables students to learn the latest research directions, help them think and broaden their eyes. At the same time, it helps the university expand its global influence in academic field.

The Joint Conference was a gathering of more than 50 famous scholars and industry experts in the field of big data and AI from the United States, Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia and other regions.

During the meeting, greeting speeches were delivered by Dr. Zheng Xiaodong, Vice Chancellor of WKU, Dr. Eric Yang, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of WKU, Dr. Larry Brown, Associate Dean of College of Science and Technology and Dr. Tiffany Y. Tang, Program Chair of Department of Computer Science.

Dr. Larry Brown , Associate Dean of College of Science and Technology of WKU

Dr. Tiffany Y. Tang , Program Chair of Department of Computer Science of WKU

Dr. Zheng Xiaodong expressed his sincere welcome to all the scholars, and gave a brief introduction of WKU. He said, “We are living now in the era of information technology, in which social network, big data and AI have provided superb advantages we could ever imagine.”

“It is my belief that the conferences this year will be faithful while we make our headway to embrace this era of information technology.”

Dr. Zheng Xiaodong ,Vice Chancellor of WKU

Dr. Eric Yang said, “WKU is proud of hosting this international conference. As one of nine Sino-foreign joint venture universities, WKU prides itself for providing students with world class education and unique opportunity that embrace both educational concepts and practice of the United States and the vibrant economic and cultural development of China.”

“Social networking and artificial intelligence have profoundly changed the way people think, live and work.”

“This conference provides a valuable platform for sharing research findings on social network and artificial intelligence, and promoting collaboration and exchange.”

 Dr. Eric Yang , Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of WKU

The keynote speech titled “Research Trends in Social Networking” was given by Dr. Ting Peng Liang, Director of the Intelligent Electronic Commerce Research Center of National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan and the immediate past president of the Association for Information Systems. As a guest, Dr. Ting Peng Liang showed that the Wenzhou city and WKU were very impressive. He also said, “Social networks are closely related to our daily lives. People use WeChat and Weibo everyday. Without the analysis of social networks, enterprises and governments can’t make policy and investment decisions. For example, the micro business marketing on WeChat now is the application of social networks. The joint meeting will present a number of results reports related to these analyses and studies. The trend of in-depth research through phenomena will provide us with countless thoughts.”

Dr. Ting Peng Liang , Director of the Intelligent Electronic Commerce Research Center of National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan

Dr. George Chang agreed Dr. Liang’s view. He cited an example, “Almost all of us use Taobao. Now when everyone open Taobao and find out that it often pushes a lot of products to you, which are usually what you like or even what you are going to buy. Why does it aim so precisely? Because it analyzes your social network, such as your Taobao friends, or it analyzes your daily shopping habits, and finally it draws a big data about your preferences, then ultimately this data helps the product to sell.”

In the next two days, scholars will also discuss the topic about AI, visualization of health Data, augmented reality as a reinforcement to facilitate ESP learning for Nursing Students, etc.