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USM ACADEMICIAN BAGS DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD RUNNER-UP PRIZE

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PENANG, 3 May 2017 – A dissertation submitted by an academician from the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) School of Computer Sciences has been chosen as runner-up in a recently-held international information competition.

Dr. Jasy Liew Suet Yan was awarded the runner-up prize for her submission in the iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award 2017. The award recognizes outstanding work in the information field, such as in information technology, library science, informatics, and information science among others.

Nominations for the awards were solicited from all members of the iSchools organization (http://ischools.org/), a consortium of Information Schools comprising more than 80 schools worldwide, and judged by a selection committee drawn from leading international schools.

Her Ph.D. dissertation with the title, “Fine-grained Emotion Detection in Microblog Text”, which was completed at the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, New York in 2016, was judged as one of the best work of the year internationally by the iSchools organization.

The award ceremony was held at the iConference 2017 in Wuhan, China from the 22-25 March 2017. It was the first ever iConference to be held in Asia.

The announcement of her win was officially notified through email from Clark Heideger, the Director of Communications, iSchools organisation.

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The iConference is an international gathering of scholars and researchers concerned with critical information issues in contemporary society. Together, they share a fundamental interest in the relationships between information, people, and technology.

Membership in the organisation are categorised into Tier and Associate members. Among the member institutions are from information schools in leading universities from the USA, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. 

Text: Mazlan Hanafi Basharudin / Photos: Dr. Jasy Liew Suet Yan

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