Current Highlights

WebMedia keynote "Biases in Data & Other Threats to Validity of Predictive Models" (Curitiba, Brazil) (2022)
UIC CS Distinguished lecture "Bias and Emergent Instabilities in Socially-embedded Algorithms" (2022)
NetSCi Network Inequalities Satellite keynote "Emergence of gender disparities and the glass ceiling effect in science"(2022)
International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) keynote (2020)
ICWM and ASONAM keynotes (2019)
WSDM Heterogeneous Network Analysis and Mining Workshop keynote (2018)

Past talks

International Hypertext Conference keynote (2017)

Plenary talk at Conference on Complex Systems (2017)

European Computational Social Sciences Symposium (2017)

Social Informatics Conference keynote (2016)

The living data lab: understanding human behavior with big data
Talk presented at ISI, July 2016
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The majority illusion in social networks and other paradoxes in social perception
CENS workshop on social media in governance, Singapore, November 2015
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A meme is not a virus: the role of cognitive heuristics in online information diffusion
Invited presentation at CSS2015 workshop on social contagions - October 2015
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Social Dynamics of Information
A meme is not a virus: how attention shapes social communication and analysis of network structure, December 2012
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Rethinking Network Structure
How dynamic interactions affect how we view network structure, presented at USI, Lugano, Switzerland, December 2011
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The Science of Social Media
A general interest science talk presented at the Machine Learning Meetup group, July 2011
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Dynamics of information spread on networks
UC Santa Barbara, May, 2011
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Harvesting Knowledge from Social Annotations
UC Irvine, May, 2011
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Social Media: A Responsible User's Guide
A general interest talk about social media, presented for Los Angeles County Museum of Art Docents' Council, March 2, 2011
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Dynamics of Social Voting
Dynamic Networks Workshop, SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, July, 2008.
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Social Information Processing
Introduction to AAAI Spring Symposium on Social Information Processing, Stanford University, CA, March, 2008.
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The Social Web: Social networks, tagging and what you can learn from them
Invited talk, University of Maryland, October, 2007
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The Social Web
University of California, Los Angeles, October, 2007
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The Social Web: An Information Revolution
Google Tech Talk, Santa Monica, June 20, 2007.
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