2015
“Electronic Governance & Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia” Best Research Paper Laureate

A research paper entitled, “Evaluating Macao’s Gaming Industry using Sentiment Analysis on Weibo Tweets”, authored by Luo Yanlong (MPI graduate), Lei Iat Seng and Dr Tse Tan Sim (Rita) of the School of Public Administration was selected as the Best Research Paper laureate at the conference “Electronic Governance & Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia”. This international conference was organized by the renowned ITMO University in Russia. The judging panel consisted of 41 experts from the USA & Europe. The panel accepted 43 papers after double-blind review, only 4 papers being awarded “Best Research Paper”. The award winning paper was based on the student’s final year project in the Computing Programme, and is recognition of the programme teams continuous efforts to develop students’ research abilities during MPI campus life.