Yu-Ru Lin is an assistant professor at School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. In the past, she has worked as an assistant research professor at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University. I have also been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University and College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University. Lin is interested in studying social and political networks, as well as computational and visualization methods for understanding network data. Her work has focused on large-scale community dynamics, rich-context (high-dimensional) social information summarization and representation. She has been using massive social media data and anonymized cellphone records (CDRs) to understand the collective responses with respect to political events and under exogenous shocks such as emergencies.
