Lisa Friedland

Lisa Friedland is a postdoctoral researcher at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, now working with Prof. Tina Eliassi-Rad.In her research, she uses methods from data mining, machine learning, and network science to analyze large data sets describing human activities.A computer scientist, she has done work in a broad range of areas. Along with computational social science, these include anomaly and fraud detection, near-duplicate detection, information retrieval, relational learning and bioinformatics.

She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and her undergraduate degree from Harvard University.