HUmans | MAchines | Networks | Society

Emilio Ferrara (Professor of Computer Science at USC) & (HUmans | MAchines | Networks | Society) Lab


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

emilio ferrara

Emilio Ferrara (PI)

luca luceri

Luca Luceri
(Lead Scientist)

charles bickham

Charles (Duke) Bickham
(CS Ph.D.)

alexander bisberg

Alex Bisberg
(CS Ph.D.)

leonardo blas

Leonardo Blas
(CS Ph.D.)

emily chen

Emily Chen
(CS Ph.D.)

eun cheol choi

Eun Cheol Choi
(Communication Ph.D.)

priyanka dey

Priyanka Dey
(CS Ph.D.)

parnian fazel

Parnian Fazel
(CS Ph.D. ’24)

bijean ghafouri

Bijean Ghafouri
(PolSci Ph.D.)

bumju jung

Bumju Jung
(Communication Ph.D.)

hsien-te kao

Hsien-Te Kao
(CS Ph.D.)

gabby pinto

Gabby Pinto
(CS Ph.D.)

alexander spangher

Alex Spangher
(CS Ph.D.)

jinyi ye

Jinyi Ye
(CS Ph.D.)

siyi zhou

Siyi Zhou
(Comm Ph.D.)

Daniel Jeong
(CS MSc)

Saborni Kundu
(CS BSc)

grace li

Grace Li
(CS BSc)

Allison Lim
(CS BSc)

Joyston Menezes
(CS MSc)

Nicolo Naoni
(CS BSc)

richard peng

Richard Peng
(CS BSc)

jinhu qi

Jinhu Qi
(CS MSc)

Peiran Qiu
(CS BSc)

Daniel Ruiz
(Visiting)

Tanishq Salkar
(DS MSc)

Diya Saraf
(CS MSc)

Chenning Sun
(CDS MSc)

Beverlyn Tsai
(CS BSc)

Christina You
(CS BSc)

Jerry Zhang
(CS BSc)

Vito Zou
(CS BSc)

Alumni Hall of Fame

Former Postdocs

alessandro bessi

Alessandro Bessi
Director AI R&D
Nextbit AI

Homa Hosseinmardi
Assistant Professor
UCLA

goran muric

Goran Muric
Principal Scientist
InferLink Corp.

Anna Sapienza
Assistant Professor
University of Copenhagen

Former PhD Students

Adam Badawy

Principal Data Scientist
Capital One

Herbert Chang
Assistant Professor
Dartmouth

Ashok Deb
Senior Lecturer
West Point

Palash Goyal
Senior Research Scientist
Google Cloud AI Research

julie jiang

Julie Jiang
Research Scientist
Meta

Akira Matsui
Assistant Professor
Yokohama National University

Karishma Sharma
Applied Scientist Amazon

Shen Yan
Research Scientist
Meta

yilei zeng

Yilei Zeng
Senior Scientist
Tencent

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

samar haider

Samar Haider
PhD student
University of Pennsylvania

Ankith Mohan

Ankith Mohan
PhD student
Virginia Tech

Zihang Sky E

Zihang Sky E
PhD student
Northwestern University

chiyu wei

Chiyu Wei
PhD student
Dartmouth College

Huy Tran Nghiem
PhD student
University of Maryland

Liuliu Chen

Liuliu Chen
PhD student
University of Melburne

Divya Choudhary

Divya Choudhary
Senior Research Scientist
Samsung Research

Dhruv Mathew

Dhruv Mathew
Machine Learning Engineer
Quantiphi

Yifei Crystal Chen
Data Scientist
Facebook

Jaimin Patel

Jaimin Patel
👨‍💻 Founder & Builder 👨‍💻
Caddi

weiwei zheng

Weiwei Zheng
Big Data Developer
Huawei

Vandana Sreenivasa Rao
Search
Salesforce

Zihang Sky E

Nikhil Jindal
SDE
Amazon

Vikram Mudaliar

Vikram Mudaliar
SDE II
Amazon

Aditya Gupta

Aditya Gupta
SDE II
Amazon


Current Appointments

Research Resources

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