List of People

From ScribbleWiki: Analysis of Social Media

People involved in social-media research or related areas

With brief summary of interests pertinent to social media.

Very incomplete so far...

• Adamic, Lada, U Michigan. Link analysis, peer-to-peer systems.

• Adar, Eytan, U Washington. Link analysis, viral marketing, visualization.

• Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo, [1], Notre Dame. Complex networks, models thereof.

• Bell, Robert AT&T Research (Leading Netflix Team)

• Blei, David, Princeton. Graphical models, NLP.

• Boyd, Danah, UC Berkeley. Socioeconomic issues, identity.

• Domingos, Pedro, University of Washington. Graph mining, tructural link analysis, applications to marketing.

• Etzioni, Oren, University of Washington. NLP. One notable contribution is the OPINE system for opinion extraction from reviews.

• Finin, Tim, UMBC. Link analysis, trust, influence, spam detection, semantic web.

• Fisher, Danyel, MSR. Visualization, network analysis.

• Ghani, Rayid Accenture Labs, product recommendation systems

• Goldberg, Ken University of Berkeley Eigentaste

• Hovy, Eduard UCSC-ISI

• Hu, Minqing Formerly at University of Chicago, now at Microsoft Live Labs

• Huberman, Bernardo, HP Labs. Structural network analysis, trust, e-commerce, network dynamics.

• Hurst, Matt, Microsoft LiveLabs. Influence, reputation, visualization.

• Java, Akshay, UMBC. Link analysis, trust, influence, spam detection.

• Jensen, David. Structural network analysis, trust and influence.

• Kleinberg, Jon, Cornell. Graph mining, statistical models.

• Kolari, Pranam, Yahoo! Research. Link analysis, trust, influence, spam detection.

• Koren, Yehuda AT&T Research (Leading Netflix Team)

• Lee, Lilian Cornell University

• Liu, Bing University of Chicago

• Marlow, Cameron, Yahoo! Research. Structural link analysis, influence, viral marketing.

• Mayzlin, Dina. Viral marketing, influence.

• Mooney, Raymond J. University of Texas

• Nigam, Kamal Google Pittsburgh

• Pang, Bo, previously Cornell, now Yahoo!. NLP.

• de Rijke, Maarten University of Amsterdam. NLP, search, influence.

• Shalizi, Cosma, CMU. Statistical network analysis.

• Soo-Min Kim Formerly at UCSC-ISI, now at Fetch Technologies

• Tomkins, Andrew, Yahoo! Research. Structural analysis, community detection, network modeling.

• Tseng, Belle, NEC Labs. Influence, viral marketing, structural link analysis, spam detection.

• Turney, Peter. NLP, statistical semantics.

• Volinsky, Chris AT&T Research (Leading Netflix Team)

• Wasserman, Stanley, U Indiana. Statistical network analysis, models.

• Watts, Duncan, Columbia. Structural network analysis, network models, information diffusion.

• Wiebe, Jan. Pitt. NLP.

• Wilson, Theresa University of Edinburgh (formerly University of Pittsburgh)