Junming Huang, PhD

E-mail: pub at junminghuang.com
Office: 363 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

My research interests lie in a range of computational social science topics including social media and networks analysis, science of science, and natural language processing. I'm an Associate Research Scientist at the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University. I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University, and an assistant researcher at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. I received my PhD from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Bachelor of Science in Physics from Tsinghua University.

I review for ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Advances in Complex Systems, BMC Biology, Chinese Journal of Computers, Complexity, eLife, EPJ Data Science, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (SMCS), International Journal of Social Network Mining, Journal of Informatics, National Science Foundation, Nature Communications, Palgrave Communications, PLoS One, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society Open Science, and Sustainability.

Please view my online profiles at Google Scholar, ORC ID, ResearchGate, Web of Science, DBLP, publons, or download my Curriculum Vitae.

News

• [Aug 2023] I am a guest editor of AI as Intelligent Technology and Agent to Understand and Be Understood by Human Mind in Frontiers in Psychology.
• [May 2023] I am organizing The Workshop on AI's impact on Society and Advancements in Technology with Microsoft Research Asia.
• [Jul 2022] I am organizing the 1st satellite on Science of Team Science and Innovation at the Network Science 2022.
• [Apr 2021] I am a guest editor of special issue Big Data in Sociology on Chinese Journal of Sociology. Please consider submit your work using SAGE Track and choose "Special Issue" as the manuscript type.
• [Jul 2021] I am organizing the 8th satellite on Quantifying Success at the Networks 2021 in Jul 2021. Please join us to discuss recent research results, identify open questions and new challenges, and develop common languages for solving problems in the emerging, fascinating field of the science of success.
• [Jun 2018] I am organizing the 5th satellite on Quantifying Success at the International School and Conference on Network Science 2018 in Paris, France on Jun 11th, 2018. Please join us to discuss recent research results, identify open questions and new challenges, and develop common languages for solving problems in the emerging, fascinating field of the science of success.
• [Jun 2017] I am organizing the 4th satellite on Quantifying Success at the International School and Conference on Network Science 2017 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States on Jun 20th, 2017. Following the 3rd satellite in 2016 that aimed at exploring the patterns underlying success in a variety of domains including science, enterprise, sports and innovation spread, this year we expand our topics to a wider range including arts and music with data mining community. Please join us to discuss recent research results, identify open questions and new challenges, and develop common languages for solving problems in the emerging, fascinating field of the science of success.
• [Jun 2016] I am organizing the 3rd satellite on Quantifying Success at the International School and Conference on Network Science 2016 in Seoul on May 31st, 2016. This satellite aims to exploring the patterns underlying success in a variety of domains including science, enterprise, sports, innovation spread, etc. Please join us to discuss recent research results, identify open questions and new challenges, and develop common languages for solving problems in the emerging, fascinating field of the science of success.

Publications

• Yu Xie, Xihong Lin, Ju Li, Qian He, Junming Huang, Caught in the Crossfire: Fears of Chinese-American Scientists, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (27) e2216248120 (2023). [doi] [bib] [EndNote] [Data] [Supplementary information] [Altmetric] [News (Wall Street Journal)] [News (Asian American Scholar Forum)] [News (Asahi Shimbun 朝日新聞)] [News (Swarma 集智俱乐部)] [News (Inside Higher Ed)] [News (Physics World)] [News (Phys.org)] [News (South China Morning Post 南華早報)] [News (Counter Punch)] [News (Foreign Policy)] [News (DNyuz)] [News (Deutsche Welle)] [News (China Daily)] [News (South China Morning Post 南華早報)] [News (Chemistry World)] [News (Foreign Affairs)] [News (Scientific American)]
  
  
• Donghui Wang, Yu Xie, and Junming Huang, Trend Analysis with Pooled Data from Different Survey Series: The Latent Attitude Method, Sociological Methodology (2023). [doi] [bib] [ris] [EndNote] [code]
  
  
• Xiu-Xiu Zhan, Kaiyue Zhang, Lun Ge, Junming Huang, Zinan Zhang, Lu Wei, Gui-Quan Sun, Chuang Liu, Zi-Ke Zhang, Exploring the effect of social media and spatial characteristics during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (2022). [doi] [bib] [ris]
  
  
• Gavin G. Cook, Junming Huang, Yu Xie, How COVID-19 has Impacted American Attitudes Toward China: A Study on Twitter, under review. [preprint] [News (Stanford SCCEI China Briefs)]
  
  
• Junming Huang, Gavin G. Cook, Yu Xie, Large-scale Quantitative Evidence of Media Impact on Public Opinion toward China, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8, 181 (2021). [doi] [bib] [ris]
  
  
• Junming Huang, Gavin G. Cook, Yu Xie, Between reality and perception: the mediating effects of mass media on public opinion toward China, Chinese Sociological Reviews (2021). [doi] [bib] [ris]
  
  
• Linlin Liu, Jianfei Yu, Junming Huang, Feng Xia, and Tao Jia, The dominance of big teams in China's scientific output, Quantitative Science Studies (2021) 2 (1): 350–362 (2021). [doi] [bib] [ris] [EndNote]
  
  
• Junming Huang, Alexander J. Gates, Roberta Sinatra, and Albert-László Barabási, Historical comparison of gender inequality in scientific careers across countries and disciplines, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Mar 2020, 117 (9) 4609-4616 (2020). [doi] [SI] [bib] [ris] [EndNote] [News (Nature Review Physics)] [News (Nature Index)] [News (Altmetric)] [News (Inside Higher Ed)] [News (NEU)] [News (Drug Target Review)] [News (C&EN)] [News (Diverse)] [News (澎湃新闻)] [News (sciencenorway)] [Commentary (PNAS)]
  
  
• Chao Fan, Junming Huang, Zhihai Rong and Tao Zhou, Coupling diversity across human behavior spaces. EPL (Europhysics Letters), Volume 124, Number 4 (2018). [doi] [bib] [ris]
  
  
• Burcu Yucesoy, Xindi Wang, Junming Huang and Albert-László Barabási, Success in books: a big data approach to bestsellers. EPJ Data Science 2018 7:7 (2018). [doi] [bib] [ris] [EndNote] [Online visualization] [Data] [News]
  
  
• Peng Bao, Hua-Wei Shen, Junming Huang, Haiqiang Chen, Mention effect in information diffusion on a micro-blogging network. PLOS ONE 13(3): e0194192 (2018). [doi] [bib] [ris]
  
  
• Chao Fan, Yiding Liu, Junming Huang, Zhihai Rong, Tao Zhou, Correlation between social proximity and mobility similarity. Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 11975 (2017). [doi] [bib] [ris]
  
  
• Lu Yu, Junming Huang, Ge Zhou, Chuang Liu, Zi-Ke Zhang, TIIREC: A tensor approach for tag-driven item recommendation with sparse user generated content, Information Sciences, Volume 411, October 2017, Pages 122-135, ISSN 0020-0255 (2017). [doi] [bib] [ris]
  
  
• Tong Man, Huawei Shen, Junming Huang, Xueqi Cheng, SCMF: A Matrix Factorization Model With Soft Constraint for Multi-Source Heterogeneous Network. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 31(4): 174-183 (2017). [html] [bib] [Endnote]
  
  
• Keith Burghardt, Christopher Verzij, Junming Huang, Matthew Ingram, Binyang Song, and Marie-Pierre Hasne. Testing Modeling Assumptions in the West Africa Ebola Outbreak. Scientific Reports, 6, 34598 (2016). [doi] [bib] [ris]
  
  
• Lu Yu, Ge Zhou, Chuxu Zhang, Junming Huang, Chuang Liu, Zike Zhang. RankMBPR: Rank-aware Mutual Bayesian Personalized Ranking for Item Recommendation. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2016), Nanchang, China (2016). Best Student Paper Award. [doi] [bib] [EndNote]
  
  
• Junming Huang, Hua-Wei Shen, Xue-Qi Cheng. Understanding information propagation via influence backbone analysis on social networks, Journal of Chinese Information Processing 2016, 30(2): 74-82 (2016). [html] [bib]
  
  
• Chao Li, Tao Zhou, Junming Huang, Xue-Qi Cheng, Hua-Wei Shen. Transfer with Shared Users: A Cross-platform Recommender System with Transferred Similarity, Journal of Chinese Information Processing 2016, 30(2): 90-98 (2016). [html] [bib]
  
  
• Tong Man, Huawei Shen, Junming Huang, Xueqi Cheng. Context-Adaptive Matrix Factorization for Multi-Context Recommendation. Proceedings of the 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'15), Melbourne, Australia (2015). [doi] [bib] [EndNote]
  
  
• Junming Huang, Chao Li, Wen-Qiang Wang, Hua-Wei Shen, Guojie Li, Xue-Qi Cheng. Temporal scaling in information propagation. Scientific Reports 4, 5334; DOI:10.1038/srep05334 (2014). [doi] [bib] [ris] [supplementary]
  
  
• Suqi Cheng, Hua-Wei Shen, Junming Huang, Wei Chen, Xue-Qi Cheng. IMRank: Influence Maximization via Finding Self-Consistent Ranking. Proceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'14), Gold coast, Australia (2014). [doi] [bib] [EndNote] [code]
  
  
• Yu-Xiao Zhu, Junming Huang, Zi-Ke Zhang, Qian-Ming Zhang, Tao Zhou, Yong-Yeol Ahn. Geography and Similarity of Regional Cuisines in China. PLoS ONE 8(11): e79161 (2013). [doi] [bib] [ris] [data] [News (WIRED)] [News (MIT Technology Review)]
  
  
• Suqi Cheng, Hua-Wei Shen, Junming Huang, Xue-Qi Cheng. StaticGreedy: solving the scalability-accuracy dilemma in influence maximization. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'13), San Francisco, USA (2013). [doi] [bib] [slides] [code]
  
  
• Peng Bao, Hua-Wei Shen, Junming Huang, Xue-Qi Cheng. Popularity prediction in microblogging network: a case study on sina weibo. Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web (WWW'13) companion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2013). [doi] [bib] [EndNote]
  
  
• Tong Man, Hua-Wei Shen, Junming Huang, Xueqi Cheng. SCMF: A Matrix Factorization Model With Soft Constraint for Multi-Source Heterogeneous Network. The 9th Chinese Conference of Information Retrieval (CCIR 2013), Taiyuan, China (2013). Best Student Paper Award. [bib]
  
  
• Junming Huang, Xue-Qi Cheng, Hua-Wei Shen, Tao Zhou, Xiaolong Jin. Exploring Social Influence via Posterior Effect of Word-of-Mouth Recommendations. Proceedings of the Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'12), Seattle, USA (2012). [doi] [bib] [EndNote] [ACM Ref] [data]
  
  
• Zhi-Dan Zhao, Shi-Min Cai, Junming Huang, Yan Fu, Tao Zhou. Scaling behavior of online human activity. EPL (Europhysics Letters) 100(4): 48004 (2012). [doi] [bib] [ris] [EndNote]
  
  
• Junming Huang, Xue-Qi Cheng, Jiafeng Guo, Hua-Wei Shen, Kun Yang. Social Recommendation with Interpersonal Influence. Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'10), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2010). [doi] [bib] [EndNote]