Kristina Lerman
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 applies graph theory and
machine learning to problems in computational social science, including social network
and social media analysis, information diffusion in networks, social voting and
recommendation, and more recently, dynamics of cognitive performance. She 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.