Professor of Computer Science and Communication
Education
- 2011, Doctoral Degree, Machine Learning, University of Messina
- 2008, Master's Degree, Computer Science, University of Messina
- 2006, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, University of Messina
Biography
Dr. Emilio Ferrara is Professor of Computer Science, Associate Chair at the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, and the inaugural (ad interim) Director of the Interdisciplinary Data Science Program at the USC School of Advanced Computing. He has joint appointments in Communication (USC Annenberg) and Preventive Medicine (USC Keck School of Medicine). He is also Principal Scientist at the Information Sciences Institute, Principal Investigator at the USC-ISI Machine Intelligence and Data Science (MINDS) center, and Director of the PhD program in Computer Science. Ferrara uses AI, data and network science to study human behavior in techno-social systems and information networks. He has published over 200 articles on social networks, machine learning, and network science, appeared in venues like Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Machine Intelligence, Communications of the ACM, Physical Review Letters, etc., and his research has been featured on all major news outlets. He was named 2015 IBM Watson Big Data Influencer, he received the 2016 Complex Systems Society Junior Scientific Award, the 2016 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2018 DARPA Director's Fellowship, the 2019 Viterbi Research Award, and the 2022 Rising Star of Science award by Research.com. As a PI, Ferrara received over $20M from DARPA, IARPA, NSF, NIH, AFOSR, and the Office of Naval Research.
Research Summary
AI, network science, data science, machine learning, computational social sciences
Awards
- 2022 Research.com Rising Stars of Science
- 2019 Viterbi Junior Faculty Research Award
- 2018 DARPA Director's Fellowship
- 2016 DARPA Young Faculty Award
- 2016 Complex Systems Society Junior Scientific Award
- 2015 IBM Watson Big Data Influencer
