Yu-Ru Lin

Yu-Ru Lin
Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
Lab Alumnus

I am an associate professor at School of Computing and InformationUniversity of Pittsburgh. I am interested in studying social and political networks, as well as computational and visualization methods for understanding network data. My work has focused on large-scale community dynamics, high-dimensional (rich-context) social information summarization and representation. I have been using massive social media data and anonymized cellphone records to understand the collective responses with respect to political events and under exogenous shocks such as emergencies. I lead the PITT Computational Social Dynamics Lab (PICSO LAB).

Current Lab Members

Director

David Lazer
Director

Senior Research Scientist

Jason Radford
Senior Research Scientist

Research Assistant

Aswath Senthil Kumar
Research Assistant

Research Programmer

Luke Horgan
Research Programmer

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Pranav Goel
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Stefan McCabe
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Matthew Simonson
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Kai-Cheng Yang
Post Doctoral Research Fellow

PhD Student

Hanyu Chwe
PhD Student
Hong Qu
PhD Student
Alexi Quintana Mathé
PhD Student
Alyssa Smith
PhD Student
Ata A. Uslu Ata A. Uslu
PhD Student

Undergraduate

Samantha Cadenasso
Undergraduate

Lab Alumnus

Jonathan Green
Lab Alumnus
Kristin Lunz Trujillo
Lab Alumnus
Ronald Robertson
Lab Alumnus
Briony Swire Thompson
Lab Alumnus