Podcasts about yimin chen

For our third #PostDocsTalk episode, hosts Brittany Melton and Meghan Voll interview Dr. Yimin Chen, a postdoctoral fellow at Royal Roads University in BC, formerly a PhD from Western's FIMS department. In this episode, Yimin talks about how to build your postdoc community by being social, gives us some tips and tricks for how to build your academic community, and use that as leverage to find your eventual postdoctoral fellowship.  To find out more about Yimin's postdoctoral research, visit: @Shinypants0 on Twitter. Recorded on March 21, 2023 Produced by Amalie Hutchinson Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

We're joined by Dr. Yimin Chen to discuss how Orson Welles' War of the Worlds was the original troll.Subscribe to It's Probably (not) Aliens for weekly episodes about cool ancient history! And give us a 5-star review if you have the time. It would really help us out!Tristan Johnson Twitter | YouTubeScott Niswander Twitter | YouTubeFollow the show on Twitter for more updates!Ask us questions and send us topics to talk about at ProbsNotAliens.comMusic by Rod Kim | Cover art by SkutchSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this fifth episode of our ongoing Climate Leadership & Action for Museums podcast series, we speak with Yimin Chen, a PhD candidate in Library and Information Science in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. His research examines the communicative practices of online communities and cultures, with a focus on Internet trolling behaviours and the controversy surrounding them. His previous projects range from fake news and deception detection, to library automation, to the impact of political memes on social media. In a world choked with fake news and online misinformation, museums have the potential to leverage the publics' trust to help communities discern reality from fiction when exploring topics like climate change. In this conversation, we explore the history of online misinformation, why some people choose to act like trolls, and why some online accounts might not even be people at all. A brief word of warning - this podcast contains explicit language in the context of internet culture and online movements.  Links: Yimin Chen on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=D25U3nsAAAAJ&hl=en  The Language & Information Technology Research Lab: https://victoriarubin.fims.uwo.ca/research/ Bot Sentinel: https://botsentinel.com/ 

Having recently completed her MSc in Neuroscience at Western University, Kyla Lee has embarked on the next step in her career, a Medical Science PhD at University of Toronto. Kyla speaks with Ariel Frame and Yimin Chen about both her MSc research and her plans for PhD studies. Kyla explains how her MSc work modelling schizophrenia in rats aimed to elucidate how brain development contributes to the disease and how her PhD work will focus on cultural competency of primary physicians with immigrant patients.  To hear more from Kyla, follow her on Twitter @kylaaalee Recorded on November 16th, 2021. Produced by Hira Nadeem. Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

Join hosts Amalie Hutchinson and Yimin Chen as they chat with PhD grad and MLIS candidate, Brooke Brassard. Our conversation follows Brooke's slightly unorthodox (pun intended) journey from a PhD in religious studies to life after graduation, to her return to grad school. She shares about her experience and life advice about doing field work, navigating the post-grad experience, and what life is like beyond the degree. To find out more from Brooke, follow her on Twitter @BrookeBrassard or listen to her on the So What? podcast Recorded on Oct 12, 2021 Produced by Ariel Frame Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

Dristy Zaman is a PhD student in Biology studying soybeans, a type of legume. In conversation with Yimin Chen and Ariel Frame, Dristy explains how she is investigating asparagine metabolism. Dristy is on the hunt to discover a particular enzyme in this pathway that is currently unknown. What is asparagine? How will she find this enzyme? What will she name it? Find out the answer to these questions, and more, in this episode. Recorded Aug 24, 2021 Full video available on YouTube Produced by Ariel Frame Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

In this episode kirstyn seanor, the Society of Graduate Students (SOGS) President, speaks with Ariel Frame and Yimin Chen about their role as president and recent developments coming from the SOGS structural retreat. kirstyn delves into the history and structure of SOGS and elaborates on the big issues SOGS is addressing at the moment.    To hear more from kirstyn, contact them through email president@sogs.ca or follow them on Twitter @kirstynasdf or the SOGS Discord   To find out about SOGS activities or get involved in SOGS, check out the website sogs.ca or Twitter @WesternSOGS and Instagram @WesternSOGS Recorded on May 20, 2021. Produced by Hira Nadeem. Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

We often think of hibernation as simply going to sleep in the wintertime, but hibernating animals aren't actually sleeping at all! It's really a special type of dormancy or torpor. This week, hosts Yimin Chen and Laura Baena speak to Masters of Biology student Amalie Hutchinson about what the cute little thirteen-lined ground squirrel of Manitoba can teach us about the cellular processes that occur while these animals are snoozing under the snow. Recorded on April 27, 2021 Produced by Laura Munoz Baena Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot

In this talk, we explore security and privacy related to meta-learning, a learning paradigm aiming to learn 'cross-task' knowledge instead of 'single-task' knowledge. For privacy perspective, we conjecture that meta-learning plays an important role in future federated learning and look into federated meta-learning systems with differential privacy design for task privacy protection. For security perspective, we explore anomaly detection for machine learning models. Particularly, we explore poisoning attacks on machine learning models in which poisoning training samples are the anomaly. Inspired from that poisoning samples degrade trained models through overfitting, we exploit meta-training to counteract overfitting, thus enhancing model robustness. About the speaker: Yimin Chen is now a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science department in Virginia Tech. Currently his research mainly focuses on differential privacy, anomaly detection, adversarial example, and private learning. Before he worked on security and privacy of mobile computing systems for his PhD study. He obtained a PhD degree from Arizona State University in 2018, a MPhil degree from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013, and a BS degree from Peking University in 2010.

In this talk, we explore security and privacy related to meta-learning, a learning paradigm aiming to learn 'cross-task' knowledge instead of 'single-task' knowledge. For privacy perspective, we conjecture that meta-learning plays an important role in future federated learning and look into federated meta-learning systems with differential privacy design for task privacy protection. For security perspective, we explore anomaly detection for machine learning models. Particularly, we explore poisoning attacks on machine learning models in which poisoning training samples are the anomaly. Inspired from that poisoning samples degrade trained models through overfitting, we exploit meta-training to counteract overfitting, thus enhancing model robustness.

Are those who fail to study history doomed to repeat it? Public History Masters student Kestra Greer has some strong opinions on the matter. How do we make the lessons of history relevant for the wider public? How should we navigate the debate over what and how we commemorate historical figures? What can knowledge of how people handled past pandemics teach us about how to deal with COVID? Join hosts Yimin Chen and Elizabeth Mohler as we learn about the poopy origins of modern epidemiology and more! To get in touch with Kestra, you can find her on Instagram @baragalog Recorded on March 30, 2021. Produced by Hira Nadeem. Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

There are plenty of options for a burgeoning MESc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering like Hira Nadeem to apply her skills towards space technology. Hira tells Ariel Frame and Yimin Chen about her recent internship at Planet, the Brooke Owens Fellowship she was recently awarded and how these have led up to her studies at Western and aspirations to work on aerospace engineering. Hira also gave an overview of the mentorship program she co-founded, Zenith Canada Pathways Foundation. To find out more from Hira, follow her on Twitter @HiraInSpace Recorded on Mar 16, 2021 Full video available on YouTube Produced by Ariel Frame Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot

On this episode the past chairs of GradCast gather together to discuss their history on the podcast, their experiences and where they are now. This light hearted conversation with Alexander Moszczynski, Tristan Johnson, Susan Anthony and Ariel Frame is facilitated by longstanding committee member, Yimin Chen. Listen in to find out how it all started, how we've grown and what makes this production a special experience for Western University graduate students.  Full Video on YouTube  Recorded on Feb 5, 2021 Produced by Ariel Frame Intro theme song produced by Mathew Becker Outro theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot

Andrew Hanna and Yimin Chen speak with Mary Blake Bonn about the role of voices in musical understanding, as well as her work as the president of SOGS. Recorded on June 20, 2017 Produced by Susan Anthony

Jaclyn Siegel (PhD Candidate in Social Psychology) joins us (Yousuf Hasan and Yimin Chen) to discuss three fascinating HRTO cases involving Western University. Jaclyn has lately been fascinated by how HRTO handles applications and appeals of harassment and discrimination. As a feminist, Jaclyn provides valuable insights on related issues as well. She also discusses some of the more pernicious forms of harassment, for instance, harassment by vexatious litigation. Disclaimer: No one in this video is a lawyer and nothing described is a legal advice; the three HRTO cases narrated are from the publicly available documents below: 1. https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onhrt/doc/2017/2017hrto1536/2017hrto1536.htmlAppeal: https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onhrt/doc/2018/2018hrto477/2018hrto477.html 2.https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onscdc/doc/2010/2010onsc6489/2010onsc6489.html?searchUrlHash=AAAAAQAjIndlc3Rlcm4gb250YXJpbyIgZnJlZWRvbSBvZiBzcGVlY2gAAAAAAQ&resultIndex=1 3.https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onscdc/doc/2012/2012onsc1287/2012onsc1287.html?searchUrlHash=AAAAAQAeInNvY2lldHkgb2YgZ3JhZHVhdGUgc3R1ZGVudHMiAAAAAAE&resultIndex=2 Full video available on YouTubeRecorded on Sep. 16, 2020 Produced by Yousuf Hasan Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io Produced by White Hot

Dr. James Steinhoff is a recent graduate from the Media Studies PhD program in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University, currently a Post-Doctoral researcher at University of Washington. James enlightens Yimin Chen and Ariel Frame about his work investigating how artificial intelligence, or simply automation in general, impacts work and workers. For a deeper dive into James' insights check out his co-authored book published last year, Inhuman Power, his Academia.edu page and his recent DigiLabour talk about his upcoming book Automation and Autonomy Recorded on July 23, 2020 Produced by Ariel Frame Them song provided by freebeats.io Produced by White Hot

In this episode Yimin Chen and Yousuf Hasan interview four students who had been selected to present at the Society of Graduate Students annual Western Research Forum for 2020 had it not been cancelled due to COVID-19: Navjot Gill (MSc Physical Therapy) tells us about her investigation into how wellness of older-adults relates with health-seeking behaviours. Her findings may help better guide them to age-in-place. To find out more about Navjot find her on LinkedIn Jaclyn Siegel (PhD Social Psychology) explains the detrimental effects of body shaming and the need for having a reliable self-report instrument to measure shame. Her findings support a model, which is good news for researchers. For more about Jaclyn, follow her on Twitter @JaclynASiegel or check out her website https://jaclynasiegel.com Kimberly Adamek (PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering) explains how high-rise buildings contribute to global warming and why her design mitigates the issues. She does this by studying wind-interaction with buildings by treating buildings collectively. To find out more from Kimberly go to her LinkedIn Marziyeh Sajjadi (MA Education), focuses on women seeking a job in Canada after graduating in Education. By having interviews with women graduates, she hopes to have a better sense of their experiences including unique difficulties they may face due to their gender. For more on Marziyeh you can find her on LinkedIn or Facebook.  Full video available on YouTube Recorded on June 4, 2020 Produced by Gavin Tolometti

Danica Facca always thought that she would go to law school after finishing her undergraduate and master's degrees in English, so how did she end up doing her PhD studies in Health and Information Sciences? It just goes to show that you never know where grad school will take you! Your hosts Yimin Chen and Ariel Frame get a lesson in digital literacy and learn about how kids and preteens are searching for and interacting with health information online.   For more information about Danica's work, go to: https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/danica_facca.html To participate in the iParenting study, go to: https://www.facebook.com/IParentingStudy Produced by Connor Chato

Titan is not only the largest of Saturn's moons, but conditions on its surface are also remarkably similar to those on early Earth. Unfortunately, Titan is covered in thick clouds, which limits our ability to observe this peculiar satellite. So what's an astronomer to do? Jahnavi Shah, a master's student in geophysics and planetary science, is taking advantage of the similarities between our planet and Saturn's moon by using radar data from impact caters on Earth as an analogue for those on Titan. This week, hosts Nick Handfield-Jones and Yimin Chen probe some of the mysteries of Titan and learn that you should never ask a space scientist about astrology.   Produced by: Laura Muñoz-Baena

Alex Leonard has worked in the music industry in Montreal, flown drones around London, and followed elephants through Sri Lanka. What's next for someone who's done almost everything? Why, a Masters in Environment and Sustainability, of course! Today, hosts Connor Chato and Yimin Chen learn how to keep pesky elephants out of your crops and about the push for corporations to be more environmentally friendly. You can contact Alex through Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexleonardmedia/ or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexleonardmedia/   WAGS Conference: https://anthropology.uwo.ca/graduate/WAGS/events_and_conferences.html Alex's RadioWestern Broadcast: https://www.mixcloud.com/alexander-leonard/     Produced by: Laura Muñoz-Baena  

You may have heard that eating too much fish may put you at risk of mercury poisoning, but how does mercury get into fish in the first place? Hosts Gregory Robinson and Yimin Chen speak with biologist Jennifer Blythe about the ecology of organic mercury - from the peat-loving, Sulphate-reducing bacteria that produce it, down to the trout on your dinner table. Along the way, we'll also hear about bog bodies, black flies, and other exciting stories of field work in the marshlands of Ontario. Produced by Laura Munoz

Neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's can make everyday tasks like getting dressed and going to the bathroom immensely challenging, which is why most people with the disease rely on informal caregivers, often family members, to help maintain their quality of living. But what's it like to be a caregiver for someone with a long-term illness? Lisa Moszczynski, master's student in Health and Rehabilitation Science, has been researching the difficulties caregivers face - feelings of invisibility, lack of agency, and inability to access support - in order to work towards providing more effective resources to these invaluable informal workers. This week, hosts Connor Chato and Yimin Chen learn about the frequently-invisible family labour involved in living with Parkinson's disease. Produced By Gavin Tolometti

Canadian perception of immigrant minority groups is the topic of this week’s episode, as we welcome back to the show Ilinca Olariu, MA student in the History department. This time, Ilinca discusses what it meant to be a Romanian immigrant in Canada during WWI, and why a proportion of Romanian citizens were considered “enemy aliens”. Hosted by Yimin Chen and Viki Tellios. Produced by Roger Hudson.

Second year biology master's student Rosie Savage is passionate about plankton! From the Pacific coast of Western Canada to the genetics lab at the University of Western Ontario, hosts Yimin Chen and Ariel Frame hear all about Rosie's adventures collecting, sequencing, and studying tiny marine zooplankton and their even tinier parasites. Produced by Gavin Tolometti

Take a trip to the Beaufort Sea in the Northwest Territories with Anthropology PhD student Rebecca Goodwin as she works to document and share the cultural history of Inuit peoples of the Western Canadian arctic. Join hosts Yimin Chen and Nikol Posnov as we hear some of the stories told by Inuvialuit elders and knowledge holders about current and past life in the far north. Plus, tips on how to eat muktuk, a traditional meal of whale blubber! For more information on the rich cultural and archaeological history of this region, visit: InuvialuitLivingHistory.ca or on facebook at: Facebook.com/InuvialuitLivingHistory Hosts: Yimin Chen & Nikol Posnov   Produced by: Gregory Robinson

In part 1 of GradCast's coverage of the 2019 Western Research forum, Roger Hudson and Yimin Chen bring you conversations with mechanical and material engineering master's student Sara Holland, master's of education student Bella Wang, and health and rehabilitation PhD student Humberto Omana. Hosts: Yimin Chen & Roger Hudson Produced by Gregory Robinson

In part 2 of GradCast's coverage of the 2019 Western Research forum, Yimin Chen brings you conversations with nursing PhD student Yasin Yasin, psychology PhD student Laura Johnson, and physical chemistry master's student Sarai Guerrero. Host: Yimin Chen Produced by Gregory Robinson

How do different regions of the brain work together to recognize and make sense of the sounds that you hear? Our guest today is Sonia Varma, who is completing her Master's in neuroscience investigating auditory processing. Hosts Monica Molinaro and Yimin Chen get a crash course in how hearing works, plus some surprising insights into the film preferences of hearing research participants. You can contact Sonia to hear more about her research through email at svarma6@uwo.ca.    Hosts: Yimin Chen & Monica Molinaro     Produced by Connor Chato

Chantal Lemire and Yimin Chen interview Elena Hillman from the Masters' in Public Administration program about her research on Ontario’s Social Assistance Program, Ontario Works, and discuss how different funding models for social services might impact not only the kinds of programs available to those in need, but also the employment success rate of those who utilize said services.  Produced by: Gavin Tolometti  

If a Troll is only semi-reformed are they now neutral? What would cause a person to turn neutral... Lust for gold? Power? Or were they just born with hearts full of neutrality? We join Yimin Chen as he describes his relationship with trolling in the context of modern issues like cyberbullying. This episode tracks Yimin’s evolving understanding of trolling, both for himself and others, and what it may mean for the future of our online lives. A transcript of this episode is available from our website: http://sowhat.fims.uwo.ca/1-4-memoirs-of-a-semi-reformed-troll/ Episode producer: Alex Mayhew

Let's enter the Matrix with Ethan Jackson as he explains his work on machine learning algorithms. This week hosts Yimin Chen and Nick Handfield-Jones dive into Ethan's fascinating research on artificial intelligence and how machine learning algorithms can solve complex problems in the information age. Self-driving cars, big data, and the iPhone face recognition app; all this will be discussed, and more. Plus, listen as Ethan tells us about his new project, where he trains a computer to play Ms. Pac-Man against itself! To learn more, find Ethan here. Hosted by: Yimin Chen and Nick Handfield-Jones Produced by: Gregory Robinson.

In her research, sociocultural anthropologist Mingyuan Zhang asks a deceptively simple question, "What does it mean to be Chinese?" in a remarkably complicated context: Madagascar. This week, Viki Telios and Yimin Chen learn that there's more to Africa's largest island than just lemurs. Plus, how to introduce yourself in the Malagasy language. To read more about Mingyuan's work check out Academia.edu Hosted by: Yimin Chen & Viki Telios Produced by: Ariel Frame

What does it mean to be a man? Do the movies that we watch influence the ways in which we understand masculinity? Ryan Schroeder, MA student in Media Studies, think so. This week, hosts Yimin Chen and Greg Robinson learn about how the presentation of male protagonists in films has changed, and perhaps softened, over the years––from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Ryan Gosling.  Hosted by: Yimin Chen & Greg Robinson   Produced by: Nick Handfield-Jones

Yimin Chen and Susan Anthony speak with Mitch Mann about his work on TUT1, a protein that prevents DNA and RNA damage - and cancer!   Hosts: Yimin Chen and Susan Anthony

Andrew and Yimin speak with Mary Blake Bonn about the role of voices in musical understanding, as well as her work as the president of SOGS. Hosts: Andrew Hanna and Yimin Chen

In this episode, Tristan and Yimin talk to Sally Norris and Thea Knowles about their work launching the first Canadian chapter of R-Ladies - a group dedicated to promoting the R programming language and statistical package to women in the research community. Hosts: Tristan Johnston and Yimin Chen

Hosts Ariel Frame and Yimin Chen chat with Mohamed Gatie about stem cells and their role in embryo development. Hosts: Ariel Frame and Yimin Chen

This week, we show you our last episode from the Western Research Forum. Tristan Johnston and Sabrina Hope speak with GradCast's own Yimin Chen, a keynote speaker who came to talk to us about sweet, sweet internet memes. Hosts: Tristan Johnston & Sabrina Hope 

This week we meet with future Librarian Claire Burrows. She's working on finding out what libraries need to be accessible to those with disabilities, by asking and studying those that use it.  Hosts: Tristan Johnson and Yimin Chen

This week we talk to Cliff Davidson, a Sociologist finding out how university students define success at university, and how that might be different from the administration. Hosts: Tristan Johnson and Yimin Chen

This week we meet with Christopher Restrict who comes from Political Science. He studies the enigmatic Think Tank, and how they work in the European Union.   Hosts: Ani and Yimin Chen    

This week, Susan and Yimin corner committee member and American Historian Tristan Johnson to answer why Donald Trump is a thing. Producers: Susan Anthony and Yimin Chen

This week, we are having a sit-down with Gradcast crew member Yimin Chen. He's working on a  project to evaluate how likely an internet source is sarcastic, or poorly researched. Hosts: Tristan Johnson and Alex Moszczynski 

This week we are interviewing a new crew-member Yimin Chen. He hails from Library and Information Science studying internet culture. Specifically, the act of trolling. Host: Ani and Susan Producer: Susan Anthony