
“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like humans, but that humans will begin to think like computers.” – Sydney J. Harris
Research interests
- human-AI behavior, collective intelligence
- computational social science
- complex systems
- social media, attention dynamics, popularity emergence, interventions
ORCID: 0000-0002-0036-8089
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Conferences & Talks 🎙️
- AI-enhanced Collective Intelligence: The State of the Art and Prospects, CSCI@CCS2024 Exeter, United Kingdom.
- Perceptions of AI Managers in Collaborative Human Teams, CSS@CCS2024 Exeter, United Kingdom.
- “Born in Rome” or “Sleeping Beauty”: Emergence of hashtag popularity on a microblogging site, CCS2022 Palma de Mallorca, Spain; NetSci2022 Shanghai, China (online); IC2S2 2022 Chicago IL, United States (Presented by coauthor).
- Attention dynamics on the Chinese social media Sina Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic, Donau Knowledge Forum 2022, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria.
- Relationship between repost network evolution of trending hashtags and their ranking dynamics in microblogging complex system, Conference on Complex Systems 2021, Lyon, France.
- Emergence of Popular Hashtags and Ranking Dynamics on the Chinese Microblogging Complex System, NETWORKS 2021: A Joint Sunbelt and NetSci Conference (Online).
- Attention dynamics on the Chinese social media Sina Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic (Poster), IC2S2 2021, ETH Zurich (Online).
- The Role of Phones in the Pandemic: A Case Study on Mobility & Twitter in Germany and Switzerland. IC2S2 2021 Datathon, ETH Zurich (Online).
- Covidpedia: Collaborative knowledge production in times of crisis. Summer Institute in Computational Social Science SICSS – Oxford (Online).
- Attention dynamics on the Chinese social media Sina Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic, Conference on Complex Systems 2020 (Online).
Publications 📖
- Cui, H., Yasseri, T. AI-enhanced collective intelligence. Patterns. (2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2024.101074
- Cui, H., Kertész, J. Competition for popularity and interventions on a Chinese microblogging site. Plos One. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286093
- Cui, H., Kertész, J. “Born in Rome” or “Sleeping Beauty”: Emergence of hashtag popularity on the Chinese microblog Sina Weibo. Physica A. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2023.128724
- Cui, H., Kertész, J. Attention dynamics on the Chinese social media Sina Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic. EPJ Data Sci. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-021-00263-0





