2022

• 3/28: Sungkyunkwan University Interaction Science invited talk- Seoul, S. Korea
• 4/25: National Chengchi University invited talk “Digital patronage and the new creator economy” (virtual)
• 4/29-5/3: ACM CHI conference- New Orleans
• 5/13: Korea Media Management Association conference invited talk- Seoul, S. Korea
• 5/18: LG Electronics Design College invited talk (virtual)
• 5/23: Postech Sports AIX Graduate Program invited talk: “Sports in the metaverse: incorporating digital analytics and digital fandom (virtual)
• 5/27-30: International Communication Association (ICA) Conference- Paris, France
• 7/5: Sogang University (virtual)
• 7/15: BTS Conference (Seoul)
• 10/5: Metacon (Seoul)
• 10/19: KT AI Lab (Seoul)
• 11/12-16: CSCW (virtual)
• 11/25: Cyber Communication Conference (Seoul)
• 12/9: ASEAN-ROK Cultural Innovation Summit
• 12/15: Korea AI Summit Ada Workshop

2021

• 4/6: UBC guest lecture (virtual)
• 5/5: LATECE Montreal invited talk (virtual)
• 6/21-23: ACM IMX conference (virtual)

2020

• 4/29: Invited speaker at Cornell (virtual)
• 6/17-18: ACM IMX conference (virtual)
• 12/4: Portland State University invited talk (virtual)

2019

• 1/4: Paper on live streaming shopping presented at HICSS by Jie Cai
• 1/25 Invited talk: Clemson University
• 5/4-9: Present paper at CHI (Glasgow) on volunteer Twitch moderators
• 5/23-27: Presenting 2 papers at ICA (Washington, D.C.) on content moderation and livestreaming
• 6/21: invited talk: AIX (Artificial intelligence) forum at IBS (Daejeon, S. Korea)
• 7/9: invited talk: Konkuk University
• 7/12: invited talk: KAIST HCI lab
• 7/17-18: Attending Korea Space Forum
• 9/3: Invited talk at Twitch HQ
• 9/5: Invited talk at Mozilla HQ
• 9/27-29: Attending TwitchCon
• 10/22-25: Presenting at CHIPLAY (Barcelona, Spain)
• 11/9-13: Presenting at CSCW (Austin, TX)

2018

• 3/10 NSF icorps award to design social support system for Opioid epidemic
• 3/24 invited talk: University of Michigan
• 3/24 invited talk: Michigan State University
• 3/30 invited talk: Cornell Tech
• 4/23-26 CHI (Montreal)
• 5/24-28 ICA (Prague)
• 6/26-28 Paper on live streaming shopping presented at TVX (Seoul)

2017

• 2/8, KAIST (Daejeon, S. Korea)
  3/29-31 Paper on cross-cutting exposure and political participation in social media presented at Eastern Communication Association conference (Boston, MA)- Best paper award!
  5/6-11 Two late-breaking works and panel on Online content moderation at CHI (Denver, CO)
  5/15-18 Designing social media for social support presented at ICWSM (Montreal, Canada)
  5/25-28 Presentation about game genre, gender, and motivations at ICA (San Diego, CA)
• 8/9-12 Paper on ethnic diversity in one’s Facebook network about news engagement to be presented at AEJMC (Chicago, IL)
• 12/6-7 Presenting work on moderation practices in livestreaming communities at All Things Moderation conference (Los Angeles, CA)

2016

• 6/10-14 International Communication Association conference, Fukuoka, Japan
• 6/8 Invited talk at KAIST, South Korea
• 5/17-18 Health Data Exploration project meeting, San Diego
• 4/29 Invited talk at Cornell University
• 4/8-12 Presenting research on self-determination and college going at AERA
• 4/1 Panelist on digital careers at “Women Designing the Future” conference at NJIT
• 3/21-22 Student will be presenting research on mobile shopping at iConference
• 3/27-29 Poster on designing paralinguistic digital affordances for social support at CSCW
• 1/21 Giving talk at Ygnite about social media and social capital

2015

• 12/24 Paper on how people deal with embarrassing situations on Facebook with Erin Spottswood is published online first in Computers in Human Behavior
• 10/14-16 Attending Grace Hopper Conference
• 8/24 Presenting research on young adults’ attention management practices at Mobile HCI in Copenhagen
• 7/14 Recipient of 2015 Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program award
• 5/21-25 Presenting research on teens’ college information-seeking behaviors at ICA annual conference in San Juan
• 4/20 Presenting research on modality and social support, and privacy behaviors at CHI in Seoul, Korea
• 3/26 Presenting paper on habits and feedback on content posting at iConference2015
• 3/14-15 Presenting research on eHealth at CSCW workshop in Vancouver

2014

• 11/5 Paper “Social contributors and consequences of habitual and compulsive game play.” accepted in International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction
• 10/9 Remote guest lecture on relationships in virtual worlds @ Indiana University
• 9/1 Joining Information Systems department at New Jersey Institute of Technology as Assistant Professor of HCI
• 8/1 Paper on teens’ use of Facebook for academic collaboration accepted in Computers & Education
• 7/1 Social media and college access article published in Interactions
• 5/23~27 Presenting papers at the International Communication Association conference in Seattle
• 5/19 Postsecondary Play hits bookshelves!
• 4/26-5/1 Presenting paper on spending behavior of virtual goods in a social game at CHI in Toronto
• 4/14 Guest lecture on Big Data & Panelist on targeted advertising for ComWeek at Illinois State
• 3/18 Paper on loneliness, Facebook use, and college adjustment of first-year students accepted at Computers and Education
• 3/4-7 Presenting paper on behavioral targeting at iConference in Berlin, Germany
• 2/15-19 Presenting poster on theory of how social media affects social construction of reality at CSCW in Baltimore
• 1/1 Paper on adolescents’ aspirations accepted for Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

2013

• 11/25 Guest lecture on social network games and relationship maintenance for Dr. Amy Lu at Northwestern
• 11/18 Presenting dissertation work on gaming habits at Northwestern MTS Brownbag
• 10/25-26 Attending InfoSocial conference at Northwestern
• 8/15 Starting postdoctoral position in Social Media Lab with Jeremy Birnholtz at Northwestern
• 7/1-5 Attending Learning Analytics Summer Institute at Stanford
• 6/14-17 Presenting papers at International Communication Association conference in London
• 6/9 Paper on Facebook game players accepted for Entertainment Computing
• 4/4 Presenting at the Michigan College Access Network conference
• 1/7 Paper on first-generation high school students and college aspirations accepted for Computers & Education

2012

• 11/26 Recipient of Outstanding Graduate Student Award by Korean Communication Association
• 11/15-18 Presenting at NCA in Orlando
• 10/29 Personality in city simulation games article appears online first in Computers in Human Behavior
• 10/10 Cues in Web 2.0 article published in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
• 9/27 Attending HackEd at Facebook in Menlo Park, CA
• 8/21-24 Attending WebShop (workshop funded by the National Science Foundation) at UMD
• 5/28-30 Presenting at ICA in Phoenix
• 5/5-9 Presenting at CHI in Austin
• 4/24 Recipient of Outstanding Scholarship/Teaching/Citizenship award by Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media
• 4/15 Recipient of Andrew Rasmussen Scholarship
• 4/13 Presenting at MIS PhD Spring Research Symposium in East Lansing
• 3/14 Paper on cultural differences in game play appears online first in Computers in Human Behavior
• 3/3 Presenting at Digital Media and Learning (dml) conference in San Francisco
• 2/8-9 Presenting at iConference in Toronto
• 1/15 Five papers accepted for ICA
• 1/13 Habit in social game play article published in Communication Research Reports

2011

• 12/10 Two papers and one case study accepted for CHI
• 11/21 Poster on predicting membership length in online communities accepted for CSCW
• 11/7 Virtual goods purchasing pattern comparisons between high and low spenders accepted for iConference
• 8/15 Joining Nicole Ellison on Gates Foundation grant on social capital, games, education
• 8/10-12 Attending AEJMC
• 8/9 Facebook as toolkit in press in Computers in Human Behavior
• 7/19-21 Attending Casual Connect
• 7/12 Facebook as Toolkit accepted at Computers in Human Behavior
• 6/2 Gender in casual games paper published in Sex Roles
• 5/26-30 Attending ICA in Boston
• 5/7-12 Attending social games workshop at CHI
• 4/14 Facebook use for collaboration in classroom paper appears online first in International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
• 4/8 Discussing Crystallization Theory at Theorizing the Web conference
• 3/7 Paper “Tweeting about TV” published in First Monday
• 2/23 “Facebook Fiends” paper accepted for IADIS 2011
• 2/10 Cliff presents our paper on adult use of Facebook for coordinating at iConference
• 1/4-7 Attending and presenting at HICSS