Biography

Kristina Lerman is a Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute, a unit of the University of Southern California (USC), and a Research Associate Professor in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Computer Science Department. An expert in complex multi-agent systems, Dr. Lerman has received numerous grants on social data and other topics from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Information Sciences Institute (ISI) early in her career. Her current work revolves around deciphering the structure and dynamics of "social web" sites such as Twitter, Digg, Flickr and Delicious. Among her goals: automatically organize collective knowledge, discover the structure of user-generated communities, and predict emerging trends and group behavior. Her empirical and experimental studies identified the importance of cognitive biases to understanding individual and collective behavior online. Dr. Lerman is an active member of the social computing research community, as a chair (SocInfo’14, SocialCom’14, Hypertext’13) or senior PC (ICWSM, IJCAI) of leading conferences, and has organized several computational social science workshops. Dr. Lerman teaches a USC Computer Science Department course on Social Media Analysis.

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