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Bin Chen

Assistant Professor
University of Hong Kong
chenb (at) hku.hk


Hi! I am an Assistant Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, Faculty of Social Science, the University of Hong Kong. My research explores digital platforms and politics, AI and media studies, computational social science, and comparative communication studies. Before joining HKU, I received my Ph.D. in Journalism and Media and M.S. in Statistics and Data Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

🙌 I’m currently hiring two part-time Research Assistants in Computational Social Science. Strong skills in statistics and data science (Python or R) are required. If you’re interested, please email me your CV along with a brief statement of purpose.

🎓 Mphil/PhD Applicants: Please refer to the JMSC’s official guidelines, and apply directly through HKU’s official application portal. ⚠️ Any promotions by third-party agencies (e.g., 留学中介) on social media platforms (e.g., 小红书) are unauthorized. Applications assisted by these agencies will NOT be considered.

Selected Publications

  1. EMNLP Conference Image EMNLP
    Josephine Lukito, Bin Chen, Gina Masullo, Natalie Stroud
    Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 19140–19153, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.1067.
  2. Cover image for article about email fundraising strategies JQD
    Bin Chen, Porismita Borah, Ross Dahlke, Josephine Lukito
    Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, Volume 4, 2024, https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2024.012.
  3. Teaser image for MaC publication MAC
    Josephine Lukito, Jason Greenfield, Yunkang Yang, Ross Dahlke, Megan A Brown, Rebecca Lewis, Bin Chen
    Media and Communication, Volume 12, 2024, https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.7851.

Public Writings

Teaching

✨ My open-source textbook, Data Journalism with R, is available online. It’s a work in progress and constantly evolving — if you have any comments, suggestions, or spot anything that could be improved, feel free to drop me an email.

Grants

Contact

Last update: July 16, 2025