Scholar
yu-ru lin
Google Scholar ID: 9EeqDSEAAAAJ
University of Pittsburgh
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,045
H-index
29
i10-index
65
Publications
20
Co-authors
39
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Publications
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Research Experience
- Professor in the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh.
- Research & Academic Director at the Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security (Pitt Cyber).
- Secondary appointments in the Political Science Department, Computer Science Department, and Intelligent Systems Program (ISP).
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University.
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University.
Background
- Interested in social and political networks and understanding network data through computation and visualization.
- Research focuses on large-scale community dynamics and high-dimensional (rich-context) social information summarization and representation.
- Uses social media data, anonymized cellphone records, surveys, and mixed methods to study how groups respond to socio-political events and exogenous shocks like natural disasters.
- Trained as a computer scientist and works as a computational social scientist exploring questions like how societies are informed and how people share information, ideas, and opinions.
- Leads the Computational Social Dynamics Lab (PICSO LAB) at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Currently on sabbatical at Facebook until September 2020.
