External Grants

• Principal Investigator. Assessing the role and effectiveness of U.S. ethnic media’s counter-disinformation work. International Center for Journalists (Disarming Disinformation Program; Charitable gift to Cronkite School MIDaS Lab). Total $256,454 (2023-2025)

• Co-Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation (Award Number: 2210137), Total $300,000 (2022--2024) 

Title: EAGER: DCL: SaTC: Enabling Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Combatting Disinformation and Racial Bias: A Deep-Learning-Assisted Investigation of Temporal Dynamics of Disinformation

• Collaborator. MIT-Lincoln Laboratory (Award Number: PO 7000506684), Total $280,000 (2020—2021)

Title: Designing effective intervention points for adversarial influence operations.

• Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation (Award Number: 2027387), Total $74,000 (2020-2022)
  Title: RAPID: Rumor Diffusion during Unrest

• Principal Investigator. Social Science Research Council (Social Media and Democracy Grants), Total $48,988 (2020-2022)
  Title: Facebook Information Diffusion and Protest Mobilization: State-level Analyses of the 2018 March for Our Lives Demonstrations

• Principal Investigator. DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory-Army Research Office (Award Number: W911NF1910066 ),  Total $328,653 (2019–2023)
  Title: Crisis and Collective Problem-Solving on the Darkweb: Understanding Crisis Information Processing in Hidden Cyber Communities 

• Collaborator. Department of Education  (Award Number: P016A160053), Total $189,697 (3% contribution) (2016-2018)
  Title: Asia Mediated: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Innovation at Arizona
  State University

• Principal Investigator. AEJMC-Emerging Scholars Award, Total $3,500 (2017-2018)
  Title: News Proximity and Social Media Framing of Terrorism: A Computational Approach toward Large-Scale Framing Research

• Co-Principal Investigator. The Gates Foundation: Digital Media Learning Competition, Total $154,018 (2013-2014)
  Title: Evaluating Microcredentialing in Public Networked Environments

Internal Grants

• Principal Investigator. ASU Global Security Initiative - Center of  Narrative, Disinformation & Strategic Influence, DNSI Small Grant, Total 9,800 (2022)

• Principal Investigator. ASU Institute for Social Science Research, Seed Grant, Total 7,587 (2021)
  Title: The Dynamics of Networked Public Attention and Social Movement: An Exploration of Intermedia and Intergenerational Framing of Gun Control Movement

• Principal Investigator. ASU Institute for Social Science Research, Seed Grant, Total 7,984 (2020)
  Title: Misinformation and Political Unrest: An Investigation of Rumor Diffusion Online and Offline during the 2019 Hong Kong Protests

• Principal Investigator. ASU Institute for Social Science Research, Seed Grant, Total 6,000 (PI, 2017)
  Title: Crisis and Collective Sensemaking in Darkweb Hacker Communities

• Principal Investigator. University at Buffalo-Mark Diamond Dissertation Research Grant, Total 2,000  (2009-2010) 

Awards|Fellowships

• Top Faculty Debut Award (2022)
  Qian Li, Chun Shao, Shawn Walker, & Hazel Kwon, Making Gun Control Agendas in Networked Digital Environment: An Intermedia Comparison between Activism Websites, News Outlets, and Ephemeral Media during the U.S. Gun Control Movement
  Interactive Media and Emerging Technologies Division
  BEA 2023 Convention

• Best Faculty Article Award (2022)
  Song, Y., Kwon, K. H., Xu, J., Huang, X., & Li, S. (2021). Curbing profanity online: A network-based diffusion analysis of profane speech on Chinese social media. New Media & Society, 23(5), 982-1003
  Chinese Communicaiton Association

• The US-Korean NextGen Scholar  (2020-21)
  Center for Strategic & International Studies

• Emerging Scholars Award (2017)
  Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

• Visiting Scholar-in-Residence (2016)
  Social Media Lab at Ted Rogers School of Management
  Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

• Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award (2nd Runner-up) (2011)
  Communication and Technology Division
  International Communication Association

• Best Faculty Paper honorable mention (2012)
  Korean American Communication Division
  International Communication Association

• Kappa Tao Alpha Research Award (2008)
  National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication

• Jung-Sook Lee Award (2008)
  Communication and Technology Division
  Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

• Top Four Paper Award (2007)
  Peace Communication Division
  National Communication Association

Advisory Board  / Editorship

• ASU President's Academic Council (2021 - present)

• Advisory Board, Korean Press Foundation, South Korea (2020)
  Project: Media Users in South Korea

• Stakeholder Engagement, Facebook Inc. (2019/2020)
  Content Policy:  Rumors and Offline Violence (Oct 2019)
  Content Policy: Response to COVID-19 (Apr 2020) 

• Associate Editor, Journal of Communication Technology (2021 - present)

• Editorial Board, Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia (2018 - present)

• International Advisory Board, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea (2020 – present)
  Department of Interaction Science
  Department of Applied Artificial Intelligence

• Editorial Board, International Journal of Communication Technology for Social Networking Services (2015 - present)

Invited Collaborations

• Research Collaborator, Social Media Lab at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada (2020-2024)
  Project: The Rise of Anti-Social Behaviour in Social Media

• External Co-Investigator, Hong Kong Baptist University (2018-Present)
  Project: Mapping the Status of Political Incivility in Hong Kong’s Digital Space: From the Umbrella Movement to the Anti-Extradition Protests