The flow of information is guided by the underlying communication network. The internet has transformed communication by enabling more rapid and more distributed information dissemination and filtering. At the same time online communication networks, through the electronic traces they create, allow us to study information flow on an unprecedented scale and with great detail. The project will relate the efficacy with which information spreads to various properties of network structure and of the information spreading through the structure. We'll be particularly interested in modeling the effect of community structure on patterns of information diffusion, including its speed of propagation, eventual reach, and change in content.

» network analysis
» data mining
» natural language processing

You must be a US citizen in order to qualify. Please submit your current CV, a favorite related publication, and any questions you may have about the postdoc position.

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

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

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

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

» 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