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:
Core HUMANS Lab Members

Luca Luceri
(Lead Scientist)

Leonardo Blas
(CS Ph.D.)

Parnian Fazel
(CS Ph.D. ’24)

Ashwin Balasubramanian
(CS MSc)

Shreeya Chand
(CS BSc)

Shireen Chand
(CS MSc)

Isabel Epistelomogi
(CS BSc)

Christina You
(CS BSc)

Vito Zou
(CS BSc)
Alumni Hall of Fame
Former Postdocs

Alessandro Bessi
Director AI R&D
Nextbit AI

Homa Hosseinmardi
Assistant Professor
UCLA

Goran Muric
Principal Scientist
InferLink Corp.

Anna Sapienza
Assistant Professor
University of Copenhagen
Former PhD Students

Herbert Chang
Assistant Professor
Dartmouth

Ashok Deb
Senior Lecturer
West Point

Palash Goyal
Senior Research Scientist
Google Cloud AI Research

Julie Jiang
Research Scientist
Meta

Akira Matsui
Assistant Professor
Yokohama National University

Karishma Sharma
Applied Scientist Amazon

Shen Yan
Research Scientist
Meta

Yilei Zeng
Senior Scientist
Tencent
Other Former Lab Members
(only members with 1+ year of tenure in the lab)

Samar Haider
PhD student
University of Pennsylvania

Ankith Mohan
PhD student
Virginia Tech

Zihang Sky E
PhD student
Northwestern University

Chiyu Wei
PhD student
Dartmouth College

Huy Tran Nghiem
PhD student
University of Maryland

Liuliu Chen
PhD student
University of Melburne

Divya Choudhary
Senior Research Scientist
Samsung Research

Dhruv Mathew
Machine Learning Engineer
Quantiphi

Yifei Crystal Chen
Data Scientist
Facebook

Jaimin Patel
👨💻 Founder & Builder 👨💻
Caddi

Weiwei Zheng
Big Data Developer
Huawei

Vandana Sreenivasa Rao
Search
Salesforce

Nikhil Jindal
SDE
Amazon

Vikram Mudaliar
SDE II
Amazon

Aditya Gupta
SDE II
Amazon
Current Appointments
- Professor of Computer Science (USC Viterbi) (Office SAL 312). By courtesy: Prof. of Preventive Medicine (Keck at USC) 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 and HUMANS Lab
- Director of the PhD program in Computer Science
- Associate Department Chair, 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.