I am 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). I am also Research Team Leader at the University of Southern California‘s Information Sciences Institute, Principal Investigator of the Machine Intelligence and Data Science (MINDS) group, and Director of the Annenberg Networks Network (ANN) center.

My research core is Humans & Machines + Networks & Society and this is our team:

Emilio Ferrara   Luca Luceri  
Emilio Ferrara
PI
 Luca Luceri
Research Scientist
 
Alex Bisberg Charles (Duke) Bickham Herbert H.C. Chang Emily Chen Bijean Ghafouri
Alex Bisberg
PhD (CS)
Charles (Duke) Bickham
PhD (CS)
Herbert Chang
PhD (Comm)
Emily Chen
PhD (CS)
Bijean Ghafouri
PhD (PolSci)
Julie Jiang Hsien-Te Kao Alex Spangher Yilei Zeng Meiqing Zhang
Julie Jiang
PhD (CS)
Hsien-Te Kao
PhD (CS)
Alex Spangher
PhD (CS)
(co-advised by
Prof Jon May)
Yilei Zeng
PhD (CS)
Meiqing Zhang
PhD (Comm)
(co-advised by
Prof Patti Riley)
Eun Cheol Choi
Eun Cheol Choi
PhD (Comm)

Current Undergraduate & Master Students:

Liuliu Chen
Nikhil Jindal
Liuliu Chen
Liuliu Chen
Zihang Sky E
Zihang Sky E
Siyi Zhou
Siyi Zhou

Chiyu Wei
Weixing Nie
Weixing Nie





Alumni Hall of Fame

Former Scientists & Postdocs

Goran Muric Alessandro Bessi Homa Hosseinmardi Anna Sapienza Zhenxiang Gao
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

Former PhD Students

Adam Badawy Ashok Deb Palash Goyal Akira Matsui Karishma Sharma Shen Yan
Adam Badawy Ashok Deb Palash Goyal Akira Matsui Karishma Sharma Shen Yan
Next: Principal Data Scientist, Capital One Senior Lecturer, West Point Senior AI Research Manager, Samsung Research Assistant Professor, Yokohama National University Applied Scientist, Amazon Research Scientist, Meta

Former Undergrads and Master’s students

Samar Haider
Samar Haider
Next: PhD at University of Pennsylvania
Weiwei Zheng
Weiwei Zheng
Big Data Developer at Huawei
Divya Choudhary
Divya Choudhary
Senior Research Scientist at Samsung Research
Aditya Gupta
Aditya Gupta
Software Development Engineer II, Amazon
Dhruv Mathew
Dhruv Mathew
Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Research at Quantiphi
Ankith Mohan
Ankith Mohan
Next: CS PhD student @ Virginia Tech
Vikram Mudaliar
Vikram Mudaliar
Software Engineer II at Amazon
Huy Tran Nghiem
Huy Tran Nghiem
CS PhD student @ University of Maryland
Jaimin Patel
Jaimin Patel
👨‍💻 Founder & Builder – Caddi 👨‍💻

Vandana Sreenivasa Rao
Search @Salesforce

Yifei Crystal Chen
Next: Data Scientist at Facebook





My research falls at the intersection of these fields:

Network Science Data Science Human-Computer Interaction Computational Social Science


Current Appointments

Former Collaborators (students and postdocs)

Research Resources