LY DINH
University of South Florida, School of Information 4202 E Fowler Ave, CIS 2022 Tampa, FL 33620-7800 | lydinh@usf.edu +1 813-396-2737 lydinh92.github.io |
EDUCATION
2022 | Doctor of Philosophy, Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
applications in social, organizational, and crisis settings (Berner-Nash Best Dissertation Award) |
2016 | Master of Arts (with honors), Communication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
social science (CSS) |
2014 | Bachelor of Arts (with honors), Communication. Minors: Cinematic Arts University of Southern California
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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Aug 2022- | Assistant Professor School Of Information, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Network Science, Crisis Informatics, Computational Social Science, Organizational Communication
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Network Analysis, Data Science, Predictive Analytics
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
2025- | Funding Agency: Multi-User Research Capital Investment Award (MuRCIA). Title: USF Human-Centered AI and Robotics Consortium (USF-HARC). Role: Co-PI ($10,000; collaborative total: $150,000). |
2024-2025 | Funding Agency: USCENTCOM. Title: Climate Change and Conflict Index Study for USCENTCOM’s Area of Responsibility (AOR). Role: Co-PI ($23,000; collaborative total: $10 million blanket purchase agreement). |
2024-2025 | Funding Agency: Cyber Florida. Title: Senior Safe AI Project: Development of an AI-based Chatbot to Assist Senior Citizen Victims of Cybercrime. Role: Co-PI ($12,000). |
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Book Chapters
2028 | B3: Dinh, L., (under contract & in progress). Crisis Informatics and Networked Response: Computational Solutions for Situational Awareness and Collaboration, 1st edition. Cambridge University Press. |
2026 | B2: Dinh, L. (Accepted). Crossing the (Scientific) Borders: Redefining Disciplinary Boundaries and Bridging the Divides in LIS. In R. Chancellor, J. Sanchez, & W. Bishop (Eds.), Constellation of Insanity: Information Science in Retrograde. Emerald Publishing Group. |
2025 | B1: Dinh, L. (Accepted). Text-Based Network Construction of Crisis Response Networks Using Entity and Relation Extraction. Sage. |
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2025 | J15: Dinh, L., & Walczak, S. (2025). Linguistic patterns in social media content from crisis and non-crisis zones: A case study of Hurricane Ian. Information Processing & Management, 62(3), 104061.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2025.104061. (IF = 7.4). |
2025 | J14: Cheng, Y.-Y*., & Dinh, L*. (2025). Extracting geographic relations from large social media text data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2025.2510419. (IF = 4.3). (*Equal Contribution). |
2025 | J13: Barley WC., Dinh L., Johnson LP., & Allan, BF. (2025) Membership in team science institute enhances diversity of researchers’ collaboration networks. PLoS One 20(5): e0322943. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322943. (IF = 2.9). |
2025 | J12: Walczak, S., & Dinh, L. (2025). A Text Mining Analytic Approach for Distinguishing Between Disaster and Non-Disaster Zones from Tweets. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105233. (IF = 4.5). |
2025 | J11: Cheng, Y.-Y., & Dinh, L. (2025). An Experiment on the Impact of Relation Types Towards Taxonomy Alignment Problems. Information Processing & Management, 62(3), 104036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2024.104036. (IF = 7.4). |
2025 | J10: Hagen, L., Dinh, L., Alexopoulos, G., Li, L., Ford, D., & Chong, M. (2025). Instilling doubts about truth: The impact of Putin's interview on X discourse. Digital Government: Research and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746646. |
2024 | J9: Dinh, L., Friedman, A., & Hawley, K. (2024). Examining peer review network dynamics in higher education visual communication courses using ERGM. Computers and Education Open, 100222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2024.100222. (IF = 5.7) |
2024 | J8: Rezapour, R.*, Dinh, L*., Jiang, L., & Diesner, J. (2024). Structural balance in real-world social networks: incorporating direction and transitivity in measuring partial balance. Social Network Analysis & Mining, 14, 168. doi: 10.1007/s13278-024-01339-1. (IF = 2.5). (*Equal Contribution). |
2024 | J7: Dinh, L., Yang, P., & Diesner, J. (2024). From plan to practice: Interorganizational crisis response networks from governmental guidelines and real-world collaborations during hurricane events. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 32, e12601. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12601. (IF = 2.6) |
2024 | J6: Dinh, L., Barley, W.C., Johnson, L., & Allan, B.F. (2024). Hyperauthored papers disproportionately amplify important egocentric network metrics. Quantitative Science Studies. doi: 10.1162/qss_a_00307. (IF = 6.4) |
2023 | J5: Dinh, L., Sarol, J., Jeoung, S., & Diesner, J. (2023). Are we projecting gender biases to ungendered things? Differences in referring to female versus male named hurricanes in 33 years of news coverage. Computational Communication Research. doi: 10.5117/CCR2023.1.006.DINH. |
2022 | J4: Dinh, L.*, Rezapour, R.*, Jiang, L., & Diesner, J. (2022). Enhancing structural balance to analyze signed digraphs of real-world organizational networks. Front. Hum. Dyn. 4:1028393. doi: 10.3389/fhumd.2022.1028393. (*Equal Contribution). |
2020 | J3: Aref, S.*, Dinh, L.*, Rezapour, R.*, & Diesner, J. (2020). Multilevel structural evaluation of signed directed social networks based on balance theory. Scientific Reports 10, 15228 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71838-6. (IF = 4.6). (*Equal Contribution). |
2020 | J2: Barley, W. C., Dinh, L., Workman, H., & Fang, C. (2020). Exploring the Relationship Between Interdisciplinary Ties and Linguistic Familiarity Using Multilevel Network Analysis. Communication Research, 0093650220926001. (IF = 6.2) |
2017 | J1: Pilny, A., Proulx, J. D., Dinh, L., & Bryan, A. L. (2017). An adapted structurational framework for the emergence of communication networks. Communication Studies, 68(1), 72-94. doi: 10.1080/10510974.2016.1262886. (IF = 1.8) |
Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers in Proceedings
2025 | C20: Burruss, G., Hagen, L., Dinh, L., & Li, L. (2025). Building trust in digital response: The role of chatbots in cybercrime prevention open-source tools for safer digital reporting and public trust (GNSI Decision Briefs No. 30). Global and National Security Institute. |
2024 | C19: Dinh, L., Hong, L., Dumas, C., Patin, B., Ghosh, S., Li, L., & Khoury, C. (2024). Social Media and Crisis Informatics Research in LIS. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. |
2024 | C18: Yang, P., Dinh, L., Stratton, A., & Diesner, J. (2024). Detection and Categorization of Needs during Crises based on Social Media Data. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2024. Buffalo, NY. |
2024 | C17: Rajabiyazdi, F., Keck, M., Stoiber, C., Roberts, J., Subramonyam, H., Ge, L., Boucher, M., Bach, B., Besancon, L., Brossier, M., Ynnerman, A., Schonborn, K., Friedman, A., Pei, B., Dinh, L., Hawley, K., Woodward, J., Rosen, P., Rahman, M., & Chen, Y. (2024). EduVis: 2nd IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Education, Literacy, and Activities. IEEE VIS. St. Petersburg, FL. |
2023 | C16: Ge, Y., Jeoung, S., Dinh, L., & Diesner, J. (2023). Detection and Mitigation of the Negative Impact of Dataset Extractivity on Abstractive Summarization. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Toronto, Canada. |
2022 | C15: Dinh, L., Barley, W.C., Johnson, L., & Allan, B.F (2023). Diversity Measures for Scientific Collaborations. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information. Springer, Cham, 2022. a. Winner: Lee Dirks Best Short Paper Award at iConference 2023 |
2022 | C14: Dinh, L., Kulkarni, S., Yang, P., & Diesner, J (2022). Reliability of Methods for Extracting Collaboration Networks from Crisis-related Situational Reports and Tweets. Proceedings of the ISCRAM Asia Pacific, 2022. Melbourne, Australia. |
2021 | C13: Rezapour, R., Dinh, L., Diesner, J. (2021). Incorporating the Measurement of Moral Foundations Theory into Analyzing Stances on Controversial Topics. Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT ’21). Dublin, Ireland (Virtual). |
2021 | C12: Ge, Y., Dinh, L., Liu, X., Su, J., Wang, A., & Diesner, J. (2021, June). BACO: A Background Knowledge- and Content-Based Framework for Citing Sentence Generation. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Bangkok, Thailand (Virtual). |
2021 | C11: Sarol, J.*, Dinh, L.*, & Diesner, J. (2021). Variation in Situational Awareness Information of Crisis Events due to Human Choices about Data Sources, Summarization Methods, and Algorithm Implementation. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2021. Atlanta, GA (Virtual). (*Equal contribution). |
2020 | C10: Dinh, L., & Parulian, N. (2020). COVID-19 Pandemic and Information Diffusion Analysis on Twitter. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 57(1), e252. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.252. Pittsburg, PA (Virtual). |
2020 | C9: Sarol, M.J., Dinh, L., Rezapour, R., Chin, C., Yang, P., & Diesner, J. (2020). An empirical methodology for detecting and prioritizing needs during crisis events. Findings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language, EMNLP 2020. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (Virtual). |
2020 | C8: Jiang L., Dinh L., Rezapour R., & Diesner J. (2020). Which group do you belong to? Sentiment-based PageRank to measure formal and informal influence of nodes in networks. Proceedings of the International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, Complex Networks, 2020. Madrid, Spain (Virtual). |
2019 | C7: Dinh, L., Sarol, J., Cheng, Y. Y., Hsiao, T. K., Parulian, N., & Schneider, J. (2019). Systematic examination of pre- and post-retraction citations. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 56(1), 390-394. Melbourne, Australia. |
2019 | C6: Cheng, Y. Y., Parulian, N., Hsiao, T. K., Dinh, L., Sarol, J., & Schneider, J. (2019). ReTracker: actively and automatically matching retraction metadata in Zotero. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 56(1), 372-376. Melbourne, Australia. |
2018 | C5: Dinh, L., & Diesner, J. (2018). Realizing the full potential of (infra-)structures for inter-agency communication before, during, and after disasters using the example of APAN (All Partners Access Network). In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Social Sensing at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation 2018 (IoTDI 2018). Orlando, FL. |
2017 | C4: Barley, W.C., Dinh, L., Workman, H.M., & Fang, C. (2017). Examining the Structure of Interactional Expertise in a Scientific Organization using Multilevel Egocentric Network Analysis. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. San Diego, California. |
2016 | C3: Dinh, L., Luo, M., & Skurka, C. (2016). An evaluation of Spitzberg’s meme diffusion: Bridging communication and computer science disciplines. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Fukuoka, Japan. |
2016 | C2: Barley, W.C., Childs, K., Workman, H.M., & Dinh, L. (2016). Frame Mismatch: How framing communication as transmission hinders interdisciplinary collaboration. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Fukuoka, Japan. |
2015 | C1: Pilny, A., Dinh, L., Bryan, A., & Proulx, J. (2015). An adaptive structurational framework for network emergence. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico. a. Winner: Top Brief Entertaining Scholarly Talk (B.E.S.T) | Networks panel |
Peer-reviewed Extended Abstracts in Proceedings
2019 | E7: Dinh, L., Cheng, Y. Y., & Parulian, N. (2019). ReTracker: an open-source plugin for automated and standardized tracking of retracted scholarly publications. In 2019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 406-407. Urbana, Illinois. |
2018 | E6: Dinh, L., & Barley, W.C., (2018). A Multiple Membership Multiple Classification (MMMC) model approach for Egocentric Network Data. Paper presented at 2018 Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2). Evanston, IL. |
2017 | E5: Dinh, L., Shavitt, S., & Jung, K. (2017). Before Landfall: Anticipatory sentiments in media coverage of Hurricanes from 1980 to 2012. Paper presented at 2017 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference. Boston, MA. |
2017 | E4: Dinh, L., & Fang, C. (2017) Exploring the dynamics of interdisciplinary collaboration using social network analysis: the effects of formal and informal network structures. Paper presented at 2017 International Sunbelt Social Network Conference. Beijing, China. |
2016 | E3: Dinh, L. (2016). Exploring the meaning of interdisciplinary collaboration in a scientific organization: An application of text and network analysis. Paper presented at 2016 International Sunbelt Social Network Conference. Newport Beach, CA. |
2016 | E2: Pilny, A., Poole, M.S., Proulx, J., Dinh, L., & Luo, M. (2016). Who needs an alter anyways? Using the ego-centric relational event model to analyze teams in open communication networks. Paper presented at 2016 International Sunbelt Social Network Conference. Newport Beach, CA. |
2015 | E1: Pilny, A., Dinh, L., Poole, M.S., Skurka, C. (2015). Empirically testing an Input-Process-Outcome multi team system model. Presentation at 2015 International Sunbelt Social Network Conference. Brighton, United Kingdom. |
Peer-reviewed Posters in Proceedings
2024 | P12: Hagen, L., Ford, D., Edwards, J., Dinh, L., DePaula, N., & Scacco, J. (2024, May). How did an election fraud narrative spread online? Testing theories us-ing machine learning and natural language processing. The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings (Vol. 37). |
2021 | P11: Dinh, L., Akuba, I., & Diesner, J. (2021). Interorganizational collaboration networks during 2018 Hurricane Michael response. US Department of Homeland Security Centers of Excellence (COE) Summit. Fairfax, Virginia (Virtual). |
2021 | P10: Yang, P., Sarol, M.J., Dinh, L., & Diesner, J. (2021). Annotation guidelines for entity tagging and semantic role labeling of disaster-related text documents. US Department of Homeland Security Centers of Excellence (COE) Summit. Fairfax, Virginia (Virtual). |
2020 | P9: Aref, S., Dinh, L., Rezapour, R., & Diesner, J. (2020). Multilevel structural evaluation of signed directed social networks. Network Science Society Conference 2020 (NetSci2020). Rome, Italy (Virtual). |
2020 | P8: Dinh, L., Sarol, J., & Diesner, J. (2020). How does situational awareness of emergencies depend on choices about data sources, analysis methods, and implementation of algorithms? Poster presented at 6th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2). Cambridge, MA. |
2020 | P7: Dinh, L.*, Rezapour, R.*, Jiang, L., & Diesner, J. (2020). Assessing balance in signed digraphs by combining balance and transitivity. (*Equal contribution) Poster presented at 6th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2). Cambridge, MA. |
2018 | P6: Dinh, L., & Cheng, Y.-Y. (2018). Middle of the (by)line: Examining hyperauthorship networks in the Human Genome Project. Poster presented at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting. Vancouver, Canada. |
2017 | P5: Pilny, A., Dinh, L., Fang, C., Poole, M.S., Proulx, J., Ruge-Jones, L., & Yahja, A. (2017). Building dynamic networks from trace data versus human coded interactions: A comparison of two collection methods. Poster presented at 2017 NetSci International School and Conference on Network Science. Indianapolis, IN. |
2016 | P4: Pilny, A., Poole, M.S., Proulx, J., Dinh, L., & Luo, M. (2016). Linking communicative processes and attitudinal outcomes through a multiteam system group experiment. Poster presented at 2016 INGRoup conference. Helsinki, Finland. |
2015 | P3: Dinh, L. (2015). Visualizing the Evolution of Communication and Technology field using Co-Authorship and Paper Citation network Analysis. Poster presented at 2015 International Sunbelt Social Network Conference. Brighton, United Kingdom. |
2015 | P2: Pilny, A., Poole, M.S., Yahja, A., Skurka, & Dinh, L. (2015). Uncertainty in social media and team performance: An experimental design in progress. Poster presented at 2015 International Communication Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
2015 | P1: Dinh, L. (2015). A Balance Theory approach to Trust in Multi-Team Systems. Poster presented at 2015 Pre-Conference in Computational Approaches to Advance Communication Research, International Communication Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
Doctoral Colloquium
2021 | Dinh, L. (2021, October). Advances to network analysis theories and methods with applications in social, organizational, and crisis settings. Doctoral colloquium, 2021 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Salt Lake City, UT, October 30 - November 2. |
2021 | Dinh, L. (2021, September). Advances to network analysis theories and methods with applications in social, organizational, and crisis settings. Doctoral colloquium, 2021 Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). Virtual, September 20-24.
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OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2018-2020 | Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Graduate Research Assistant
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2018 Summer | Network Science Fellow, Visible Network Labs (Denver, CO) Research Fellow
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2016-2017 | Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Graduate Research Assistant
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2014-2016 | Department of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of Record
2023-2025 Summer | LIS 4934: Senior Capstone School of Information, University of South Florida |
2022-2025 Spring | LIS 5937: Social Network Analysis School of Information, University of South Florida |
2022-2025 Spring | LIS 4800: Introduction to Data Science School of Information, University of South Florida |
2022 Fall | LIS 4372: Advanced Statistics & Analytics with R School of Information, University of South Florida |
2021 Spring | IS527: Network Analysis School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Average Rating for Teaching Effectiveness: 5.0/5.0
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Co-Instructor
2020 Spring | LIS559NA: Network Analysis School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
ERGM, Multiple Membership models Average Rating for Teaching Effectiveness: 4.6/5.0
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Teaching Assistant
2017 Summer | Information Science & Engineering Summer School Global Education & Training, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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2017 Spring | LIS590NA: Network Analysis School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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2017 Fall | LIS543: Sociotechnical Information Systems School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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2016 Fall | INFO 202: Social Aspects of Information Technology School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
exercises such as interactive videos, online quizzes, debates |
WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED
2024 | IEEE VIS 2024, St. Petersburg, Florida Tutorial: EduVis: 2nd IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Education, Literacy, and Activities - AI Track. |
2021 | WebConference 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia (online) Tutorial: PyNetworkshop - Analyzing the Structure of Networks in Python - The Essentials, Signed Networks, and Network Optimization. |
2021 | Networks 2021: A Joint Sunbelt & Netsci Conference, Bloomington, USA (online) Tutorial: PyNetworkshop - Analyzing the Structure of Networks in Python - The Essentials, Signed Networks, and Network Optimization. |
2021 | IC2S2 2021, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (online) Tutorial: PyNetworkshop - Analyzing the Structure of Networks in Python - The Essentials, Signed Networks, and Network Optimization. |
INVITED TALKS
2024 | Rutgers University, Library and Information Science Department Talk title: Evaluating performance of Large Language Models Guest Lecture for ITI-220: Information Retrieval. |
2021 | VinUniversity, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Vietnam Talk title: Advances to network analysis theories and methods with applications in social, organizational, and crisis settings. |
2020 | Women@NCSA speaker Series, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Talk title: Gendering the Ungendered: Examination of hurricanes news coverage from 1979-2012. |
2016 | INFO 202, Social Aspects of Information Technology Talk title: Introduction to Social Network Analysis for Information Sciences |
2015 | LGBT Resource Center, QUENCH Speaker Series, University of Illinois Talk title: No Role Models Abroad: Mis- and Under-Representation of LGBTQ Characters in Foreign (Mainstream) Cinema. |
HONORS AND AWARDS
2023 | Lee Derks Best Short Paper Awards iConference 2023’s award for best short paper |
2023 | Florida Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (FL-AGEP) Scholar Scholarship for early-career faculty women of color in STEM |
2023 | Berner-Nash Memorial Dissertation Award iSchool Illinois’s award for outstanding doctoral dissertation |
2021 | Josie B. Houchons Departmental Fellowship iSchool fellowship support for a student of outstanding promise |
2021 Summer | Irwin Departmental Fellowship Summer fellowship for dissertation research |
2020 | Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) Student Scholar Sponsored by Cisco Systems Inc. to attend conference and participate in workshops |
2020 May | Graduate Teacher Certificate Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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2020 March | Women in Data Science Conference (WiDS) Poster Competition, Winner Poster title: Which group do you belong to? Sentiment-based PageRank to measure formal and informal influence of nodes in networks. |
2019 October | iSchool Research Showcase Poster Competition, Winner Poster title: Gendering the Ungendered: Examination of hurricanes news coverage from 1979-2012 |
2019 | Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Student Design Competition, Winner Design title: ReTracker: Actively and Automatically Matching Retraction Metadata in Zotero |
2017 | International Communication Association, Networks Panel, Best Brief Entertaining Scholarly Talk Talk title: Examining the Structure of Interactional Expertise in a Scientific Organization using Multilevel Egocentric Network Analysis |
2015 | International Communication Association, Networks Panel, Best Brief Entertaining Scholarly Talk Talk title: An adaptive structurational framework for network emergence |
2014 Summer | Elizabeth Winter Young Summer Fellowship Department of Communication, University of Illinoi Urbana-Champaign |
2014 | Graduate Image of Research Competition, People’s Choice Award University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Poster title: Visualizing the Evolution of Communication and Technology field using Co-Authorship and Paper Citation network Analysis |
2014 May | Marcia Israel Award for Best Feasibility Study Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Southern California Paper title: Visions Analytics - A Feasibility Study for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) |
2014 | Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society, Inductee |
2013-2014 | Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fellow, University of Southern California |
2012 | Lambda Pi Eta Honors Society for Communication studies, Inductee |
SERVICES
Leadership
2024 | Chair, Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) SIG Social Media (SIG-SM)
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Program Committee in Conferences
2025 | ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci25)
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2024 | Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2025)
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2024 | IEEE Visualization Conference (Vis 2024)
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2024 | ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci24)
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2023 | Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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2023 | ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci)
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2022 | ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci)
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2020 | International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo)
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Session Chair in Conferences
2021 | 84th Annual Conference of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
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Mentorship in Conferences
2023 | iConference 2023 Doctoral Colloquium, Faculty Mentor
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Departmental Committee Membership
2024 | Search Committee Committee member for Tenure-track position in Information Security/Data Science |
2023 | Search Committee Committee member for Tenure-track position in Data Science |
2022 | Diversity Committee Faculty member at USF School of Information |
2017 | Diversity Committee PhD Student Representative |
2016 | Doctoral Studies Committee PhD Student Representative |
Grant Proposals Panels and Reviews
2025 | National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program Title: Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) Panelist |
2024 | National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Ad-Hoc Reviewer |
Reviewer in Journals
2025 | IEEE Data Descriptions |
2025 | Journal of Supercomputing |
2023 | Information Processing & Management |
2023 | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction |
2021 | Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory |
2021 | PLOS One |
Reviewer in Conferences
2025 | Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) |
2024 | International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2) |
2023 | Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) |
2021 | Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) |
2021 | The Web Conference |
2020 | The Web Conference (used to be WWW) |
2020 | International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo) |
2019 | Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) |
2018 | Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) |
2018 | International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) |
2017 | International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) |
2017 | Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference (COINs) |
2017 | International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo) |
Professional Organization Member
2020 - | Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) |
2019 - | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
2018 - | Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) |
2018 - | North American Social Network Conference (NASN) |
2016 - | International Social Networks Association (INSNA) |
2014 - | National Communication Association (NCA) |
2014 - | International Communication Association (ICA) |