Yu-Ru Lin To Present at Dean's Department and Program Spotlight Series

DINS faculty Yu-Ru Lin will discuss "From Online Footprints to Shared Traits: Promise & Perils of Mitigating Risk" at the next SCI Dean's Department and Program Spotlight Series event. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, November 17th, and join us (on Zoom) at 5 pm EST for what promises to be a lively presentation!

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Yu-Ru Lin is an Associate Professor and director of the PITT Computational Social Dynamics Lab (PICSO LAB). Her research lies at the intersection of Computational Social Science, Data Mining, and Visualization. She specializes in using social network and text data along with statistical learning tools and social theories to study phenomena spanning societal events and policy, anomalous behaviors, and other important complex patterns concerning collective attention and actions, as well as human and social dynamics in response to societal risks.

She has authored or coauthored more than 100 refereed journal and conference papers. Her work has been featured in the WSJ, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, MIT News, and NPR. She has chaired/co-chaired leading computational social science conferences such as ICWSM and TheWebConference/WWW (Web & Society Track) and served on more than 50 conference program committees in related areas of big data and network science, including KDD, AAAI, IJCAI, etc.

Yu-Ru was selected as a Fellow of Kavli Frontiers of Science, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and was named to SAGE journal's list of "39 Women Doing Amazing Research in Computational Social Science" across the world. Her research has received multiple best paper awards and received funding from the industry such as Amazon and Adobe, and government agencies including NSF, DARPA, and AFOSR. Learn more about Yu-Ru Lin.