Education
Menczer holds a Laurea in physics from the Sapienza University of Rome and a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science and cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego.
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Career
He holds courtesy appointments in Cognitive Science and Physics and is a fellow of the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin, Italy. As of November 20, 2013 he was named a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a senior research fellow of the Kinsey Institute for in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. He previously was an assistant professor of management sciences at the University of Iowa, and a fellow-at-large of the Santa Fe Institute.
At Indiana University Bloomington since 2003, he served as division chair in the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing in 2009-2011.
He holds editorial positions for the journals EPJ Data Science and Network Science. He has served as program or track chair for various conferences including the International World Wide Web Conference and the International Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Hypertext and Social Media.
He is general chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Web Science 2014 Conference. Menczer"s research focuses on Web science, social networks, social media, social computation, Web mining, data science, distributed and intelligent Web applications, and modeling of complex information networks.
He introduced the idea of topical and adaptive Web crawlers, a specialized and intelligent type of Web crawler.
Recently Menczer"s group has focused on analysis and modeling of how memes and misinformation spread through social media in domains such as the Occupy movement and political elections, and how to combat astroturfing and detect social bots. Menczer and colleagues have also advanced the understanding of information virality, and in particular the effect of the competition for our finite attention and the prediction of what memes will go viral based on the structure of early diffusion networks. Truthy.indiana.edu: a research project that helps you understand and visualize how information spreads on Twitter.
Includes API and Botany or Not demo.
Scholarometer: a social bibliometrics tool to facilitate citation analysis and help evaluate the impact of an author"s publications. By crowdsourcing discipline annotations, this browser extension is able to provide a universal metric to compare impact across disciplines.
GiveALink.org: an early social tagging system for research
Kinsey Reporter: a global mobile survey platform to share, explore, and visualize anonymous data about sexual Developed in collaboration with the Kinsey Institute for in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
Reports are submitted via smartphone, then explored on this website or downloaded for off-line analysis via a free API. Other research projects are listed on the Networks & agents Network (NaN) website.
