





Still on Zoom... due to COVID-19. Topic: HKML S3E1 Time: Sep 30,[masked]:00 PM Hong Kong SAR Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/92150641746?pwd=dGFOMTRJVnl0bXdQT0p3Skx4ZTRyZz09 Meeting ID:[masked] Passcode: hkml Getting Started with Network Science & Analytics Synopsis - Our collective experience with COVID-19 continues to remind us about the growing importance and role of networks in affecting nearly every facet of our lives. The field of network science/graph theory that historically emerged as an effort to understand human relationships and behavior has now evolved into a frontline discipline in the study of complex relationships, contagion patterns, social influence, and community engagement in domains spanning healthcare, urban systems, fintech, education, and social media. In this talk, we will briefly introduce some key concepts that define network analysis, discuss some on-going projects in financial services, and demonstrate a stock-price network analysis using LynxKite, a new open-source platform that lets you get started (quickly) with your own network analytics project. Bios - Prasanta Bhattacharya is a Research Scientist with the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Singapore and an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the NUS Business School. Prasanta holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems, focusing on predictive and causal inference problems in large social networks. His current research leverages large-scale, and fine-grained behavioral data to address complex problems in digital marketing, fintech, and ed-tech contexts, particularly in emerging Asian markets. Prasanta actively collaborates with leading industry partners from around the world, and has presented his research in major computer science, information systems and marketing conferences worldwide. Andras Nemeth is the CTO of [Lynx Analytics](http://www.lynxanalytics.com), a graph analytics consultancy. He is in charge of the development of [LynxKite](http://www.lynxkite.com), the company's graph data science platform. He has also worked on the technology aspects of various graph projects during his tenure at Lynx. Before Lynx, he worked at Google on ad targeting at YouTube and then on semantic understanding of web pages based on the Knowledge Graph. Started his tech career at Yahoo!, Fai-Keung Ng is one of the trailblazers for performance marketing, having launched the sponsored search product globally since 2005. After leaving Yahoo!, he joined and held leadership positions at a number of AI/analytics companies: AT Internet, ViSenze, and currently Lynx Analytics, where he advances enterprises' digital transformation with data. At Lynx, his team developed an open source graph data science platform, LynxKite, with the aim to democratize the adoption of Graph AI.