Eytan Bakshy I'm an applied scientist on the Facebook Data Science team. I do empirical research on peer effects and information diffusion in networks. I completed my Ph.D. in Information at the University of Michigan in 2011 under the guidance of Lada Adamic.

Selected publications:

• Selection Effects in Online Sharing: Consequences for Peer Adoption. Sean J. Taylor, Eytan Bakshy, Sinan Aral. EC 2013.
• Quantifying the Invisible Audience in Social Networks. Michael Bernstein, Eytan Bakshy, Moira Burke, Brian Karrer. CHI 2013.
• Social Influence in Social Advertising: Evidence from Field Experiments. Eytan Bakshy, Dean Eckles, Rong Yan, Itamar Rosenn. EC 2012.
• The Role of Social Networks in Information Diffusion. Eytan Bakshy, Itamar Rosenn, Cameron A. Marlow, Lada A. Adamic. WWW 2012.
• Center of Attention: How Facebook Users Allocate Attention across Friends. Lars Backstrom, Eytan Bakshy, Jon Kleinberg, Thomas M. Lento, Itamar Rosenn. ICWSM 2011.
• Everyone's an Influencer: Quantifying Influence on Twitter. Eytan Bakshy, Jake M. Hofman, Winter A. Mason, Duncan J. Watts. WSDM 2011.
• Social Influence and the Diffusion of User-Contributed Content Eytan Bakshy, Brian Karrer, Lada A. Adamic. EC 2009.

• Uncertainty in Online Experiments with Dependent Data: An Evaluation of Boostrap Methods. Eytan Bakshy & Dean Eckles. Accepted to KDD 2013.

• Showing Support for Marriage Equality on Facebook.
  Coverage @ AllThingsD, The Atlantic, Gizmodo, Wall St. Journal, Forbes, CNN, BBC News
• Estimating Audience Size on Facebook
• The 2012 Election through the Facebook Lense
  Coverage @ MIT Technology Review, Talking Points Memo
• Rethinking Information Diversity in Networks
  Coverage @ Slate, New Scientist

• MIT Technology Review: What Facebook Knows

For a complete list of publications, see my CV and Google Scholar.

I also have a (no longer updated) but super pretty homepage can be found here .