HUmans | MAchines | Networks | Society

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

Alumni Hall of Fame

Former Postdocs

Former PhD Students

Other Former Lab Members
_{(only members with 1+ year of tenure in the lab)}

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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.