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University of Southern California


Kristina Lerman
 
 
 Project Leader 
 Information Sciences Institute 
   
 Research Associate 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 Associate 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  
 
  April 2013  
 
  I am accepting applications for a posdoctoral research assistant with experience in network analysis and graph theory  
 
  Paper LA-LDA: A Limited Attention Model for Social Recommendation wins Terry Lyons Memorial Award for best student paper at SBP13 conference!  
 
  March 2013  
 
  My guest post on Stop publishing so much already! for the ACM SIGCOM blog on the problem of information overload in science  
 
  "Structural and Cognitive Bottlenecks to Information Access in Social Networks" will be presented at the HyperText 2013 conference in Paris, France  
 
 
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