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:
Emilio Ferrara (PI)
Luca Luceri
Research Scientist
Alex Bisberg
(CS Ph.D.)
Charles (Duke) Bickham
(CS Ph.D.)
Emily Chen
(CS Ph.D.)
Eun Cheol Choi
(Communication Ph.D.)
Priyanka Dey
(CS Ph.D.)
Bijean Ghafouri
(PolSci Ph.D.)
Julie Jiang
(CS Ph.D.)
Bumju Jung
(Communication Ph.D.)
Hsien-Te Kao
(CS Ph.D.)
Gabby Pinto
(CS Ph.D.)
Alex Spangher
(CS Ph.D.)
Yilei Zeng
(CS Ph.D.)
Leonardo Blas
(CS Ph.D. ’24)
Parnian Fazel
(CS Ph.D. ’24)
Jinyi Ye
(CS Ph.D. ’24)
Siyi Zhou
(Comm Ph.D. ’24)
Alumni Hall of Fame
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| Goran Muric | Alessandro Bessi | Homa Hosseinmardi | Anna Sapienza | Gao Zhenxiang |
| Principal Scientist, InferLink Corp. | Nextbit AI, Director AI R&D | University of Pennsylvania, Senior Research Scientist | Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen | 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, Dartmouth | 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 |  Nikhil Jindal Amazon SDE |
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 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.
