Detection of social bots, analysis of misinformation on social media platforms
Awards
2016 DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2017 Complex Systems Society Junior Scientific Award, 2019 Viterbi Junior Faculty Research Award, 2022 Research.com Rising Stars of Science
Academic background
Alma mater
University of Messina, TU Wien, Royal Holloway, University of London
Thesis
Mining and Analysis of Online Social Networks
Doctoral advisor
Giacomo Fiumara, Alessandro Provetti
Other advisors
Albert Paccanaro, Georg Gottlob, Filippo Menczer
Academic work
Discipline
Computer Science, Machine Learning, Network Science, Computational Social Science, Data Science
Institutions
University of Southern California, Indiana University
Website
www.emilio.ferrara.name
Emilio Ferrara is an Italian-American computer scientist, researcher, and professor in the field of data science and social networks. As of 2022, he serves as a Full Professor at the University of Southern California (USC), in the Viterbi School of Engineering[1] and USC Annenberg School for Communication,[2] where he conducts research on computational social science, network science, and machine learning. Ferrara is known for his work in the detection of social bots and the analysis of misinformation on social media platforms.[3]
^"USC - Viterbi School of Engineering - Viterbi Faculty Directory". viterbi.usc.edu.
^"Emilio Ferrara". annenberg.usc.edu.
^Guglielmi, Giorgia (28 October 2020). "The next-generation bots interfering with the US election". Nature. 587 (7832): 21. Bibcode:2020Natur.587...21G. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03034-5. PMID 33116324. S2CID 226052075.
EmilioFerrara is an Italian-American computer scientist, researcher, and professor in the field of data science and social networks. As of 2022, he serves...
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as the potential cause of their negative behaviors. Two studies by EmilioFerrara have shown that, on online social networks like Twitter and Instagram...
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theory. University of Southern California professor and data scientist EmilioFerrara found that about 25% of accounts that use QAnon hashtags, retweet InfoWars...
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by Emilio Larrosa. In 2002, Soto appeared in the soap opera Las vías del amor with Aracely Arambula and Jorge Salinas which was produced by Emilio Larrosa...
(c. 1970) by Emilio Greco San Francesco (1956) by Marcello Mascherini Ferrara Terra E Acqua, entry on palace. Guida artistica di Ferrara e dintorni, by...
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Emilio Greco (11 October 1913 – 4 April 1995) was an Italian sculptor, engraver, medallist, writer and poet. He is best known for his monumental bronze...
organist, and teacher of the late Renaissance. He was born and died in Ferrara, and despite evidence of travels to Rome it is assumed that Luzzaschi spent...
Deputies, as well as a colonial administrator Italo Balbo, a Blackshirt leader and leader of the Ferrara Fascist organisation Grand Council of Fascism...
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wife (Helen Mirren) in Venice. King of New York (1990), directed by Abel Ferrara, stars Walken as ruthless New York City drug dealer Frank White, a recently...
Italian Fascist politician and civil servant, prefect of the Province of Ferrara and later of Novara during the Italian Social Republic. A lawyer, he joined...
Balbo became the leading Fascist party organizer in his home region of Ferrara. He was one of the Quadrumvirs, the four principal architects (Quadrumviri...
Ashley Putnam as Elena, Kathryn Day as Anaide, and Stephen Dickson as Emilio. The first New York City performance, starring Vincenzo Manno as Fadinard...
April 1878) was an Italian opera composer and librettist. He was born in Ferrara. He received his education at the Imperial College in Vienna and at the...
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