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People
Below are faculty, students and lab groups active in the Ph.D.
program in Computation, Organizations and Society (COS).
Core COS Faculty
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Kathleen Carley
computational social and organization theory, dynamic social
networks, multi-agent network models, information diffusion, social and organizational policy |
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Lorrie Cranor
privacy enhancing software, policy specification languages,
electronic voting, secure systems
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David Farber (bio)
distributed computing, telecommunications and networks, software
systems and programming languages, technology policy
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Bill Hefley
intelligent user interfaces, IT services qualification, software
industry research
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Jim Herbsleb
collaboration in software engineering, open source, computer-supported
cooperative work, organization design
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Raj Reddy
human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence
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Norman Sadeh
pervasive computing, agent technologies, internet-enabled supply
chains, mobile commerce, web security and privacy
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Michael Shamos
digital libraries, language identification, electronic voting,
electronic negotiation, Internet law and policy
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Latanya Sweeney
data privacy, privacy technology, bioterrorism surveillance,
video surveillance, biomedical informatics, intelligent tutoring
systems, computer learning
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Rahul Tongia
Technology Leapfrogging; Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for Sustainable Development; Digital Divide; Telecommunications Policy; Smart Metering and Digital Power Grids; Infrastructure (IT, Telecom, Energy, and Power) analysis, options, and regulation
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Affiliated COS Faculty
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David Krackhardt
network analysis, computational organizational behavior, social networks, cognitive social structures
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Tuomas Sandholm
AI and machine learning, e-commerce, game theory; multiagent
systems and networks, auctions and negotiations, voting, intelligent
real-time systems
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Robert Thibadeau
negotiated privacy and contracts, computer security, digital
libraries, distributed learning, policy specification languages
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COS Students
The Ph.D. Program in Computation, Organizations and Society (COS)
is the newest Ph.D. Program in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie
Mellon University. The following students, who were previously working
on COS projects with COS faculty, have already been admitted to the inaugural
class through an early admissions process.
| Bedford, Virginia
dynamic network analysis, high performance computing, BioWar |
| Benisch, Michael J.
expressive commerce, computational game theory, automated trading, mechanism design, machine learning |
| Chan, Christopher
open source software, mathematical modeling |
| Davis, George
computational models of sustainability |
| Diesner, Jana
dynamic network analysis, text mining, AutoMap, co-evolution of social and knowledge networks |
| Egelman, Serge
Usable privacy and security, helping users make informed trust decisions, and increasing the dissemination of web site privacy policies. |
| Fette, Ian
Phishing, Security |
| Frantz, Terrill L.
dynamic network analysis, organizational dynamics, mergers, ORA |
| Hirshman, Brian
dynamic network analysis, agent based modeling, cognitive processes, Construct |
| Jiang, Xiaoqian
data privacy, data mining |
| Jones, Laurie
data privacy |
| Kelley, Patrick G.
Information Visualization, Explanation, Conversation, HCI, Suggestion |
| Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam
security education, trust modeling, learning science, human computer interaction, and privacy policy languages |
| Landwehr, Peter
dynamic network analysis, massive multi-player on line games |
| McCulloh, Ian
dynamic network analysis, change detection, statistics on networks |
| Olson, Jamie
dynamic network analysis, geo-spatially enabled network analysis |
| St. Charles, Jesse
Dynamic Network Analysis, Agent Based modeling, Emergent Behavior, Complex Systems |
| Wagstrom, Patrick
dynamic network analysis, software development teams |
| Xu, Wanhong
data privacy, data mining |
COS Alumni
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Edoardo Airoldi
fingerprint identification, probabilistic models for mining text, data privacy, geometry of learning algorithms, inverse problems over time
Thesis: Bayesian Mixed-Membership Models of Complex and Evolving Networks
[abstract] [pdf]
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Michael Ashworth
computational organization theory, management and entrepreneurial
influence, measures of organizational performance
Thesis: Computational and Empirical Explorations of Work Group Performance
[abstract] [pdf]
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Marcelo Cataldo
computational organization science
Thesis: Dependencies in Geographically Distributed Software Development: Overcoming The Limits of Modularity
[abstract] [pdf]
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John Graham
military command, control, communications & information, social network analysis, organizational design, situation awareness, shared mental model
Thesis: Dynamic Network Analysis of the Network-Centric Organization: Towards an Understanding of Cognition & Peformance
[abstract] [.pdf]
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Ralph Gross
human identification at a distance, face and gait recognition, computer vision, data privacy
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Bradley Malin
data linkage and re-identification, data privacy, data mining, biomedical informatics, internet fraud, applied multiparty computation
Thesis: Trail Re-Identification and Unlinkability in Distributed Databases
[Abstract] [.pdf]
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Craig Schreiber
social network analysis, multi-agent systems, diffusion of knowledge
Thesis: Human and Organizational Risk Modeling, Critical Personnel and Leadership in Network Organizations
[abstract] [pdf]
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Maksim Tsvetovat
intelligent agents, ecommerce, contracts and negotiations
Thesis: Social Structure Simulation and Inference using Artificial Intelligence Techniques
[Abstract] [pdf] [Cited]
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Alex Yahja
intelligent adaptive agents, networks, multi-agent systems, bioterrorism surveillance
Thesis: WIZER: A Tool for Validation of Social Simulations
[abstract] [pdf]
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Administrative People
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Connie Herold
COS Program Manager
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Sherice Livingston
Data Privacy Lab, Lab Administrator
Executive Assistant to Dr. Latanya Sweeney |
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Jennifer Lucas
Mobile Commerce Lab, Executive Assistant to Dr. Norman Sadeh |
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Janice Kusmierek
Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational
Systems (CASOS), Lab Manager |
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Rochelle Economou
COS Web Manager |
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