Yong-Yeol Ahn
Assistant Professor of Informatics
School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN (US)
Biography:
Yong-Yeol Ahn is an assistant professor at Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing and a co-founder of Janys Analytics. He earned his Ph.D. from Physics Department at KAIST in early 2008 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University and a visiting researcher at the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute from 2008 till 2011. His research focuses on the structure and dynamics of various networks across social and biological systems. His interests include the online social networks, social media, community detection, data-driven study of food and culture.
Emilio Ferrara
Post Doctoral Fellow
School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN (US)
Biography:
Emilio Ferrara is a Postdoctoral fellow at the School of Informatics and Computing of Indiana University. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Italy) in early 2012. He was a visiting scholar with DBAI at Vienna University of Technology (2010), and with CSSB at Royal Holloway University of London (2011-2012). His research interests include social networks and social media mining and analysis, modeling and algorithm design for complex networks, aiming at forecasting collective behavior and attention. Emilio was the co-organizer of Covenant 2013, an ECCS’13 workshop (Barcelona, Spain) and he is the local co-chair of ACM Web Science 2014.
Twitter: @jabawack
Website: Emilio Ferrara
Young-Ho Eom
Post Doctoral Fellow
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique
University of Toulouse, France
Biography:
Young-Ho Eom is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique in University of Toulouse. He got his Ph.D. from Department of Physics at KAIST (South Korea) in 2009 and he was a junior researcher in Institute of scientific interchange, Italy from 2009 to 2012. He is interested in analysis and modeling of complex networks, dynamics of social-information networks. Currently he is performing the project “New tools and algorithm for directed network analysis.”
Twitter: @thinking22
Website: Young-Ho Eom
Yana Volkovich
Research Scientist
Barcelona Media Innovation Center
Barcelona, Spain
Biography:
Yana Volkovich is a Research Scientist at Barcelona Media Innovation Center. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Twente (the Netherlands) in 2009 and M.Sc. from the Saint Petersburg State University (Russia) in 2004. Her research interests include ranking algorithms for complex networks and mathematical models for social media: online behavioral dynamics and its relationships with the offline world. Yana has organized a number of scientific events: Special session (FQAS2013) (chair), RuSSIR2012/13 Young Scientists Conference (chair), SoME2011(WWW2011) (chair), SISoM2011 (ICWSM2011), and WAW2009 (WSDM2009).
Twitter: @yvolkovich
Website: Yana Volkovich