On the afternoon of December 16, 2019, the ceremony of Dr. Jiang Bo's lecture at the University of Maryland in the United States and the specially-appointed senior researcher of the college was held at Shanghai Maritime University Library B107. Professor Chen Weijiong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Deputy Dean of the School of Marine Science and Engineering, Professor Gao Guoping, Dr. Li Jie from the Department of Safety Science and Engineering, and dozens of teachers and graduate students at and outside the school attended the ceremony.
Secretary Chen Weijiong introduced the general situation of the college to the guests, thanked Dr. Jiang Bo for taking the time to come to the school to make a report for teachers and students, and expressed hope for further cooperation between the two universities in the future. Then, Secretary Chen Weijiong issued a letter of appointment for a specially appointed senior researcher to Dr. Jiang Bo. In the end, Dr. Jiang Bo made a report entitled "Global Pirate Spatio-temporal Data Mining and Analysis".
In the report, Dr. Jiang Bo explored the causes and consequences of piracy in the South China Sea, Malacca Strait, and East African waters from a contextual perspective; the extent to which research on piracy supports the central principles of environmental criminology and crime and the concentration of harm Local; how the offender's motivation, applicability of targets, lack of security, and their integration affect piracy in Southeast Asia; to what extent the economic situation of fishermen affects piracy in East and Southeast Asia. And rely on methods such as spatial econometrics, survival analysis, Bayesian statistics, and semi-parametric additive hazard models to solve these problems. Dr. Jiang Bo discussed the impact of on-board security on pirate hazards, the principles of grid division, the selection of hotspots and hazard points. Teachers and students inside and outside the school actively interacted to express their views.
Dr. Bo Jiang graduated from the University of Maryland, USA. He is currently a research assistant at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, and a tutor at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge. He studied undergraduate and master's degrees in the Department of Economics of the National University of Singapore, the Department of Criminology of the University of Pennsylvania, and taught in the Department of Strategy and Policy of the National University of Singapore Business School. Since 2014, he has been taught by Professor Gray LaFree, Director of the United States START and Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. His research interests focus on the use of advanced quantitative analysis methods to study issues such as "human trafficking and social control", "prisons and violent political extremism", "pirates" and "terrorist attacks". The thesis was published in the international criminology journal "Quantitative Criminology" and other journals. His research paper on the analysis of "Pirates in the South China Sea and the Malacca Strait" has won the first prize in the thesis competition of the International Criminology Branch of the American Society of Criminology.
