Emilio Ferrara is a Professor of Computer Science at the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science (USC Viterbi), Communication (USC Annenberg), and Preventive Medicine (Keck School of Medicine of USC). He’s also a Principal Scientist at the University of Southern California‘s Information Sciences Institute, and Principal Investigator of the Machine Intelligence and Data Science (MINDS) group. The HUMANS LAB‘s research core is Humans & Machines + Networks & Society and this is our team:
![]() Jinyi Ye | ![]() Nikhil Jindal | ![]() Siyi Zhou | ![]() Chiyu Wei | ![]() Joseph Wang |
Alumni Hall of Fame
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Goran Muric | Alessandro Bessi | Homa Hosseinmardi | Anna Sapienza | Gao Zhenxiang |
Next: Principal Scientist, InferLink Corp. | Nextbit AI, Director AI R&D | University of Pennsylvania, Senior Research Scientist | Denmark Technical University, Research Scientist | University of Connecticut, Postdoc |
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Adam Badawy | Herbert Chang | Ashok Deb | Palash Goyal | Akira Matsui | Karishma Sharma | Shen Yan | Meiqing Zhang |
Next: Principal Data Scientist, Capital One | Assistant Professor, Darthmouth | Senior Lecturer, West Point | Senior AI Research Manager, Samsung Research | Assistant Professor, Yokohama National University | Applied Scientist, Amazon | Research Scientist, Meta | Postdoc, William & Mary |
![]() Samar Haider Next: PhD at University of Pennsylvania | ![]() Weiwei Zheng Big Data Developer at Huawei | ![]() Divya Choudhary Senior Research Scientist at Samsung Research | ![]() Aditya Gupta Software Development Engineer II, Amazon | ![]() Dhruv Mathew Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Research at Quantiphi |
![]() Ankith Mohan Next: CS PhD student @ Virginia Tech | ![]() Vikram Mudaliar Software Engineer II at Amazon | ![]() Huy Tran Nghiem CS PhD student @ University of Maryland | ![]() Jaimin Patel 👨💻 Founder & Builder – Caddi 👨💻 | ![]() Vandana Sreenivasa Rao Search @Salesforce |
![]() Yifei Crystal Chen Next: Data Scientist at Facebook | ![]() Liuliu Chen | ![]() Zihang Sky E PhD student, Northwestern University |
Current Appointments
- Professor of Computer Science (USC Viterbi) (Office ANN 414A in the “new Annenberg” building) and Communication (USC Annenberg)
- Principal Scientist at the USC’s Information Sciences Institute (Office #939 at ISI in Marina del Rey)
- Principal Investigator at the Machine Intelligence and Data Science research group
- Director of the PhD program in Computer Science
- Associate Department Chair for Research Faculty Affairs, Computer Science
Research Resources
- The datasets adopted in my research on Social Networks are available on request.
- The WERW-Kpath algorithm to compute the Kpath Edge Centrality has been released.
- The CONCLUDE community detection algorithm has been released.
- The Python Data Scientist toolbox is a list of useful resources, tutorials, and libraries to proficiently use Python for Data Science.