Lada Adamic

Assistant professor, School of Information & Center for the Study of Complex Systems
Courtesy appointment, EECS
University of Michigan

Courses

SI 544 (W'08,F'06)
Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis
SI 601(F'07)
DRAT: data retrieval and analysis techniques
SI 508
(F'08 F'07)
Networks: Theory and Application (MS level)
SI 708(F'08, W'O7,F'07)
Networks: Theory and Application (PhD level)
SI 503 (W'07)
Search and Retrieval
SI 614 (W'06) -> 508/708
Networks: Theory and Application

RIW Networks seminar (2006-2007)

Students
current

Xiaolin Shi (PhD, CSE)
Eytan Bakshy (PhD, SI)
Matt Bonner (CSE undergrad)

past
Noor Ali-Hasan (MSI - thesis '06)
Dale Hunscher (MSI - thesis '07)
Info on Lada

bio
CV
network resources

demos in guess
scripts Matlab
demos NetLogo
image gallery
list of network software




Research

I study the effects of local interactions on global properties. This has lead me to study the Internet and the World Wide Web, peer-to-peer systems, social networks, and bioinformatics.


Postdoc position opening
I'm looking for a postdoc to study information diffusion in online communities. Interested? More info is here.

Recent Publications

» Crowdsourcing and Knowledge Sharing: Strategic User Behavior on Taskcn,
Jiang Yang, Lada A. Adamic, and Mark S. Ackerman, in EC 2008.

» The very small world of the well-connected,
Xiaolin Shi, Matthew Bonner, Lada Adamic, Anna Gilbert, in Hypertext 2008.

»  Competing to Share Expertise: the Taskcn Knowledge Sharing Community,
Jiang Yang, Lada Adamic, Mark Ackerman, ICWSM2008.

»  Knowledge sharing and Yahoo Answers: Everyone knows something,
Lada A. Adamic, Jun Zhang, Eytan Bakshy and Mark Ackerman, WWW2008.

» Community Identity: Peer Prestige and Academic Hiring in the iSchools,
Andrea Wiggins, Michael McQuaid, Lada Adamic, iConference 2008.

»  Scatter Networks: A New Approach for Analyzing Information Scatter on the Web,
Lada Adamic, Suresh Bhavnani and Xiaolin Shi, New. J. Phys. 9, (2007) 231.

»  Expertise Networks in Online Communities: Structure and Algorithms,
Jun Zhang, Mark Ackerman and Lada Adamic, WWW2007, Banff, Canada. related PPT slides

»  CommunityNetSimulator: Using simulations to study online community networks ,
Jun Zhang, Mark Ackerman and Lada Adamic, C&T2007, Lansing, MI.

»  Expressing Social Relationships on the Blog through Links and Comments,
Noor Ali-Hasan and Lada Adamic, ICWSM2007, Boulder, CO.

»  A Case Study of Blog Comments in a National Crisis,
Noor Ali-Hasan and Lada Adamic, poster, ICWSM2007, Boulder, CO.

»  Looking at the Blogosphere Topology through Different Lenses, Xiaolin Shi, Belle Tseng and Lada Adamic, ICWSM2007, Boulder, CO.

»  Networks of Strong Ties ,
Xiaolin Shi, Lada Adamic, and Martin Strauss, Physica A, 378(1):33-47, 2007.

»  The Dynamics of Viral Marketing,
Jure Leskovec, Lada Adamic, and Bernardo Huberman, EC'06, Ann Arbor, MI.
long version: ACM Transactions of the Web, 1 (1), 2007.
slides (PPT, 2.5 MB)

» The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election:
Divided They Blog

Lada A. Adamic and Natalie Glance, LinkKDD-2005, Chicago, IL, Aug 21, 2005.
(presented earlier at the 2nd Annual Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics, WWW2005, Japan.)

»  Tracking information epidemics in Blogspace. Eytan Adar and Lada Adamic, Web Intelligence 2005, Compiegne, France, Sept. 19-22, 2005.

»  Implicit Structure and the Dynamics of Blogspace
Eytan Adar, Li Zhang, Lada A. Adamic, and Rajan M. Lukose, Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem, 13th International World Wide Web Conference, May 18th, 2004.
PPT presentation given at Sunbelt 2005

»  How to search a social network
Lada A. Adamic and Eytan Adar, Social Networks, 27(3):187-203, July 2005.

»  Enhancing Reputation Mechanisms via Online Social Networks (short paper)
Tad Hogg and Lada A. Adamic, Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Electronic Commerce, New York, NY, 236-237, 2004.

»  Information dynamics in a networked world
Lada A. Adamic and Bernardo A. Huberman
       in: Eli Ben-Naim, Hans Frauenfelder, Zoltan Toroczkai, (Eds.), 'Complex Networks', Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer, 2003.

»  Information flow in social groups
Fang Wu, Bernardo A. Huberman, Lada A. Adamic and Joshua R. Tyler, Physica A, 337:327-335, 2004.
       presentation in PDF (CNLS Networks in Santa Fe, May 12, 2003)

»  Friends and Neighbors on the Web
Lada A. Adamic and Eytan Adar, Social Networks, 25(3):211-230, July 2003.

»  A Social Network Caught in the Web
Lada A. Adamic, Orkut Buyukkokten, and Eytan Adar, First Monday, 8(6), 2003.

»  Complete list of publications


Visualizations

» Check out the networks gallery


Demos

» PeopleFinder2 (HP Internal)

» Knowledge Brief Navigator (HP Internal)

» Blog Epidemic Analyzer - track memes through the blogosphere

» Genelit: A method for identifying gene-disease connections

» MeshGene - find concepts (MeSH terms) related to a set of genes.

» The Stanford Social Web


Just for fun

» Data mining just for fun (movies, etc)

» back to my personal homepage http://www.ladamic.com


» University of Michigan
» School of Information
» Center for the Study of Complex Systems
» EECS
» Personal homepage
 
  Contact:
School of Information
University of Michigan
304 West Hall
1085 South University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107
Tel&Fax: (734) 615-2132