The Computational Social Science Workshop Presents

Ben Zhao

Neubauer Professor of Computer Science, Co-Director at the Systems, Algorithms, Networking, and Data Lab

University of Chicago

The Computational Social Science Workshop at the University of Chicago cordially invites you to attend this week's talk:

Thursday, 10/12/2017

11:00am-12:20pm

Rosenwald Hall 015

A light lunch will be provided by Snail Thai Cuisine.

**Ben Zhao** is the Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at University of Chicago. Prior to joining UChicago, he was a Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara. His research covers a range of topics from large-distributed networks and systems, HCI, security and privacy, and wireless / mobile systems, mostly from a data-driven perspective. His current projects are focused on three areas: data-driven models of user behavior/interactions, security of online and mobile communities, and wireless systems and protocols. His work targets a range of top conferences, including WWW/IMC, Mobicom/SIGCOMM/NSDI, UsenixSecurity/NDSS/S&P/CCS, CHI/CSCW. Here's a wordle of his paper abstracts from 2014-early 2017.

Together with Prof. Heather Zheng, Ben Zhao co-directs the SAND Lab (Systems, Algorithms, Networking and Data) at University of Chicago. He received his PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2004, where he was advised by John Kubiatowicz and Anthony Joseph, and created the Tapestry distributed hash table (dissertation). He received his MS from Berkeley in 2000, and his BS in computer science from Yale in 1997. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, a recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER award (2005), MIT Tech Review's TR-35 Award (Young Innovators Under 35) (2006), IEEE Internet Technical Committee's Early Career Award (2014), and one of ComputerWorld's Top 40 Technology Innovators under 40. His papers have somewhere around 23,000 citations and an H-index of 57.

The 2017-2018 Computational Social Science Workshop meets each Thursday from 11 to 12:20 p.m. in Rosenwald 015. All interested faculty and graduate students are welcome.

Students in the Masters of Computational Social Science program are expected to attend and join the discussion by posting a comment on the issues page of the workshop's public repository on GitHub. Further instructions are documented in the Computational Social Science Workshop's README on Github.