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          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

  • Dissertation Title: Advances to network analysis theories and methods with

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

  • Exam topics: Organizational communication, network analysis, computational

social science (CSS)

2014

Bachelor of Arts (with honors), Communication. Minors: Cinematic Arts

University of Southern California

  • Honors Thesis Title: What’s Facebook good for? Examining relationships between social capital and motivations of social media use as moderated by cultural differences

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.

  • Won 2nd Place for Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Research Poster Competition

OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2018-2020

Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Project: Reliable Extraction of Emergency Response Networks from Text Data
  • Supervisor: Dr. Jana Diesner                                        

2018

Summer

Network Science Fellow, Visible Network Labs (Denver, CO)

Research Fellow

  • Project: Gender Names in Hurricane News Coverage
  • Supervisor: Dr. Danielle Varda

2016-2017

Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Project: Gender Names in Hurricane News Coverage
  • Supervisor: Dr. Jana Diesner, Dr. Sharon Shavitt                                 

2014-2016

Department of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow

  • Supervisor: Dr. Marshall Scott Poole    

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

  • Sole instructor for 13-weeks of lectures
  • Lectures cover fundamentals of network analysis, from theories, methods, to applications of networks in social, organizational, and crisis management research

Average Rating for Teaching Effectiveness: 5.0/5.0

  • Recognized in CITL’s “Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students” List

Co-Instructor

2020

Spring

LIS559NA: Network Analysis

School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Co-instructor for 7-weeks of lectures
  • Teach sessions on statistical approaches for network analysis, using R (for QAP,         

ERGM, Multiple Membership models

Average Rating for Teaching Effectiveness: 4.6/5.0

  • Recognized in CITL’s “Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students” List

Teaching Assistant

2017

Summer

Information Science & Engineering Summer School

Global Education & Training, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Grading, create quizzes & R-programming workshop for student        

2017

Spring

LIS590NA: Network Analysis

School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Grading and assisting students with class materials and assignments

2017

Fall

LIS543: Sociotechnical Information Systems

School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Grading and assisting students with class materials and assignments

2016

Fall

INFO 202: Social Aspects of Information Technology

School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Led two sections of 20 students each
  • Discuss topics related to each week’s lecture with use of technology-aided

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

  • Taught more than two semesters of courses, participated in a series of teaching development program and evaluations, and fulfilled additional teaching requirements

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)

  • Organize workshops, host meetings, and facilitate collaborations with members on social media and crisis informatics research

Program Committee in Conferences

2025

ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci25)

  • Program Committee member to help with organizing submissions for review
  • Reviewed 3 submissions

2024

Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2025)

  • Program Committee member to help with organizing submissions for review
  • Reviewed 3 submissions

2024

IEEE Visualization Conference (Vis 2024)

  • Program Committee member to help with organizing submissions for review
  • Reviewed 3 submissions

2024

ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci24)

  • Program Committee member to help with organizing submissions for review
  • Reviewed 4 submissions

2023

Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

  • Program Committee member to help with organizing submissions for review
  • Reviewed 4 submissions

2023

ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci)

  • Program Committee member to help with organizing submissions for review
  • Reviewed 3 submissions

2022

ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci)

  • Program Committee member to help with organizing submissions for review
  • Reviewed 3 submissions

2020

International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo)

  • Program Committee member to help with organizing submissions for review
  • Reviewed 2 submissions

Session Chair in Conferences

2021

84th Annual Conference of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)

  • Chair and moderator for “Scientometrics and Bibliometrics” session

Mentorship in Conferences

2023

iConference 2023 Doctoral Colloquium, Faculty Mentor

  • Reviewed Laura Dozal (University of Arizona) and Jack Clark (University of Arizona)’s dissertation proposals and provided guidance on network methods

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)