Community detection and mining in social media

Lei Tang is a scientist at Yahoo! Labs. He received his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering at Arizona State University in 2010 and BS from Fudan University, China in 2004. His research interests include social computing, data mining, and social media mining, in particular, relational learning with heterogeneous networks, group evolution, profiling and influence modeling, and collective behavior modeling and prediction in social media. He was awarded ASU GPSA Research Grant, SDM Doctoral Student Forum Fellowship, Student Travel Awards and Scholarships in various conferences. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.Lei Tang is a scientist at Yahoo! Labs. He received his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering at Arizona State University in 2010 and BS from Fudan University, China in 2004. His research interests include social computing, data mining, and social media mining, in particular, relational learning with heterogeneous networks, group evolution, profiling and influence modeling, and collective behavior modeling and prediction in social media. He was awarded ASU GPSA Research Grant, SDM Doctoral Student Forum Fellowship, Student Travel Awards and Scholarships in various conferences. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.

• Social Media and Social Computing.- Nodes, Ties, and Influence.- Community Detection and Evaluation.- Communities in Heterogeneous Networks.- Social Media Mining.