Abstract
This talk will summarize the University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence
Lab's Dark Web research and discuss current and future development of a new
GeoPolitical Web research program, which aims to study the emerging
geopolitical events using advanced social media analytics techniques. The
GeoPolital Web project is collecting longitudinal multilingual social media
contents (forums, twitters, videos) from many different volatile regions in
the world. Selected sentiment analysis, text mining, social network
analysis, and econometrics models studies will be presented.
Dark Web research has received significant international press coverage,
including: Associated Press, USA Today, The Economist, NSF Press, Washington
Post, Fox News, BBC, PBS, Business Week, Discover magazine, WIRED magazine,
Government Computing Week, Second German TV (ZDF), Toronto Star, and Arizona
Daily Star, among others. For more Dark Web and GeoPolitical Web project
information, please see:
http://ai.eller.arizona.edu/research/terror/.
Hsinchun Chen, Ph.D. (Biosketch)
Dr. Hsinchun Chen is McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems
at the University of Arizona. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS. He
received the IEEE Computer Society 2006 Technical Achievement Award, the
2008 INFORMS Design Science Award, the MIS Quarterly 2010 Best Paper Award,
and the IEEE 2011 Research Achievement and Leadership Award in Intelligence
and Security Informatics. He is author/editor of 20 books, 25 book chapters,
230 SCI journal articles, and 140 refereed conference articles covering Web
computing, search engines, digital library, intelligence analysis,
biomedical informatics, data/text/web mining, and knowledge management. He
is Editor in Chief (EIC) of the ACM Transactions on Management Information
Systems (ACM TMIS) and Springer Security Informatics (SI) Journal.
Dr. Chen
is founding director of Artificial Intelligence Lab and Hoffman E-Commerce
Lab. The UA Artificial Intelligence Lab, which houses 20+ researchers, has
received more than $30M in research funding from NSF, NIH, NLM, DOD, DOJ,
CIA, DHS, and other agencies (90 grants, 40 from NSF). Dr. Chen's COPLINK
system, which has been quoted as a national model for public safety
information sharing and analysis, has been adopted in more than 3500 law
enforcement and intelligence agencies. COPLINK research has recently been
expanded to border protection (BorderSafe), disease and bioagent
surveillance (BioPortal), and terrorism informatics research (Dark Web),
funded by NSF, DOD, CIA, and DHS. Dr. Chen is the founder of the Knowledge
Computing Corporation (KCC), a university spin-off IT company and a market
leader in law enforcement and intelligence information sharing and data
mining. KCC was acquired by i2, the industry leader in intelligence
analytics and fraud detection, in 2009. The combined i2/KCC company was
acquired by IBM in 2011 for $500M.