Professor @ School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at Indiana University, Bloomington. My background is in Statistical Physics, and my research interests are in the area of Complex Networks and Computational Social Science.

Updates

July 2016. The Rise of Social Bots is featured on the cover of Communications of the ACM. Joint work with C. Davis, E. Ferrara, F. Menczer, O. Varol
May 2016. OSoMe has just been released. It is a platform to help studying online social media.
It is the result oof several years work by many. An account is in OSoMe: The IUNI observatory on social media. by Davis CA, Ciampaglia GL, Aiello LM, Chung K, Conover MD, Ferrara E, Flammini A, Fox GC, Gao X, Gonçalves B, Grabowicz PA, Hong K, Hui P, McCaulay S, McKelvey K, Meiss MR, Patil S, Peli Kankanamalage C, Pentchev V, Qiu J, Ratkiewicz J, Rudnick A, Serrette B, Shiralkar P, Varol O, Weng L, Wu T, Younge AJ, Menczer F. (2016), PeerJ Preprints 4:e2008v1.

June 2016. The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge is a cover feature on IEEE Computer, June issue. Joint work with many, including V. S. Subramhanian, and E. Ferrara, F. Menczer, O. Varol and P. Shiralkar at Indiana University.
March 2016. To appear: C. Shao, G. L. Ciampaglia, A. Flammini, F. Menczer; Hoaxy: A Platform for Tracking Online Misinformation, Third Workshop on Social News On the Web (SNOW), to be held in conjunction with the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016) in Montreal.

This blog entry summurizes it. Also commented here on the Stack.