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University of Southern California


Kristina Lerman
 
 
 Project Leader 
 Information Sciences Institute 
   
 Research Assistant Professor 
 Department of Computer Science 
   
 University of Southern California 
   
  
 
  Kristina Lerman is a Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute and holds a joint appointment as a Research Assistant Professor in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Computer Science Department. Her research focuses on applying network- and machine learning-based methods to problems in social computing.  
 
  She also was principal organizer of the 2008 American Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Social Information Processing Symposium.  
 
 Research Interests  
 
  Social Networks: complex systems, dynamic networks, mathematical analysis, multi-agent systems.  
 
  Social Computing: social web and social media, learning from social annotation, social dynamics.  
 
  Artificial Intelligence: machine learning, semantic modeling, statistical text analysis.  
 
 Recent News  
 
  October 2011  
 
  Just how contagious are ideas? Kristina Lerman explains.  
 
  April 2011  
 
  Kristina Lerman talks about Digg to the San Francisco Examiner.  
 
  Kristina Lerman explains how gossip spreads on The Big Bang Theory Blog.  
 
  Paper titled "What stops social epidemics?" by Greg Ver Steeg, Kristina Lerman and Rumi Ghosh accepted for presentation at the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.  
 
 
 
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