Jay Park

Jaihyun Park is an assistant professor at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University. Emphasizing the social aspect of information, his research interests intersect in (1) Digital Humanities, (2) Computational Social Science, and (3) Data Curation under the broad umbrella of the Information Science discipline. Methodologically driven by computational approaches such as text mining, natural language processing, and network analysis, Park is interested in understanding how ideologically opposing groups employ language to construct their unique discourse communities and establish networks. Park leverages a diverse array of textual data, ranging from digitized historical newspapers to contemporary social media, collected from multiple platforms to examine how textual information reflects the dynamics of a divided society. Park obtained his Ph.D. in Information Sciences at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MLIS degree and CAS in Data Science at Syracuse University and his BA at Yonsei University.