“Social cohesion analysis of networks: a novel method for identifying cohesive subgroups in social hypertext” by Alvin Chin, with Jessica Rubart as coordinator

Abstract

Alvin Chin is a Member of Research Staff at Nokia Research Center (NRC), Beijing, working in the Mobile Social Networking group. Alvin recently completed his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto where he worked under Professor Mark Chignell. His PhD thesis was entitled "Social Cohesion Analysis of Networks: A Novel Method for Identifying Cohesive Subgroups in Social Hypertext" where he created a framework for automatically identifying influential members in subgroups from online social networks. At NRC Beijing, Alvin's research involves creating novel solutions that use the cell phone and context to participate and integrate with other users and online social networks, and enabling an intuitive user experience for social networking. He graduated with a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering and a Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He has worked 2.5 years full time in industry researching emerging technologies in the wireless and pervasive computing area, especially Bluetooth and 802.11. His current research interests include social networking, computer-supported collaborative work, context-aware computing, and pervasive computing. Alvin is an active user of social networking and Web 2.0 technologies. He can be contacted at alvin.chin@nokia.com, and blogs frequently at http://www.alvinychin.com/blog.