Dates: 23 August 2021 | 24 August 2021 | 25 August 2021

Computational social science is the integrated, inter-disciplinary pursuit of social science inquiry with emphasis on data or information processing and through the methods of advanced computation. The field of computational social science has indeed gained much traction of late with the widespread availability of big data and profound leaps in computational power and methods, leading to ground-breaking impacts on social science research by academics and its policy implications for societies and nations. With its focus on the intersection of computing and societal/behavioral phenomena and implications, the field has been having profound impacts on both academics, industries, and everyday activities.

The Faculty of Arts and Social Science (FASS) and the Department of Information Systems and Analytics (DISA) within the School of Computing in the National University of Singapore (NUS) are jointly organizing the Global Forum of Computational Social Science in August 23-25, 2021. Through this forum, NUS FASS and DISA aim to promote the advancement of this exciting inter-disciplinary field in Singapore and Asia.

This forum has invited world leading scholars to present and discuss the potentials, current challenges and future perspectives of computational social science from inter-disciplinary perspectives. The forum has also invited scholars and researchers from FASS and DISA who are committed to or are conducting research related to this field.  The organizers of this forum expect to see meaningful interactions between the traditional social sciences and the computational social sciences, as well as to promote collaborations between the researchers, industry partners as well as policymakers, in and beyond Singapore.