Anfan Chen陈安繁

Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University

Specializing in Computational Social Science, LLMs, Science Communication, and Political Communication. Leveraging advanced AI and data analytics to understand social phenomena and media dynamics.

Current Positions

Research Assistant Professor

Hong Kong Baptist University, School of Communication

August 2023

Associate Director, AI and Media Centre

Hong Kong Baptist University, School of Communication

November 2025 - August 2027

Programme Director, Master of Social Sciences in Media Management

Hong Kong Baptist University

November 2025 - August 2027

Executive Editor of HKBU Fact Check

Hong Kong Baptist University

August 2025 - August 2027

Research Interests

Primary Focus

  • • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • • Computational Social Science
  • • Science Communication
  • • Political Communication

Methodological Expertise

  • • Web Data Scraping
  • • Natural Language Processing
  • • Machine Learning
  • • Automated Text Analysis

Featured Projects

ChatGPT Survey and Experiment Enhanced System

A sophisticated tool designed to facilitate the creation, deployment, and analysis of surveys and experiments utilizing the capabilities of ChatGPT. This system leverages advanced AI to simulate various scenarios, gather user responses, and analyze data in a streamlined and efficient manner.

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The Archive of COVID-19 Misinformation Website

The Archive of COVID-19 Misinformation aims to collect and present the misinformation about COVID-19 that spread on Chinese social media. The archive can immune the public against misinformation by showing how COVID-19 misinformation is framed.

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DMDI Insights

A social media data collection and analytic platform, covering multiple social media data sources including Sina Weibo, Bilibili Site, Twitter, Zhihu, and Youtube.