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Emily's Resume


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Education


University of Southern California (August 2019 - Present)

  • Ph.D. Computer Science
  • GPA: 3.92
  • Advisor : Dr. Emilio Ferrara

University of Southern California (August 2019 - May 2021)

  • M.S. Computer Science
  • GPA: 3.92
  • Advisor : Dr. Emilio Ferrara

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (August 2013 - May 2017)

  • B.S. Computer Engineering

Research


Influence Campaign Awareness and Sensemaking (INCAS) Project (August 2021 - Present)

Cognitive Online Simulation of Information Network Environments (COSINE) Project (August 2019 - September 2021)

Publications


Pierri, F., Luceri, L., Chen, E., & Ferrara E. How does Twitter account moderation work? Dynamics of account creation and suspension on Twitter during major geopolitical events. EPJ Data Sci. 12, 43 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00420-7

[Github]

Chen, E., & Ferrara, E. (2023). Tweets in Time of Conflict: A Public Dataset Tracking the Twitter Discourse on the War between Ukraine and Russia. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 17(1), 1006-1013. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22208

[Github]

Jiang, J., Chen, E., Luceri, L., Muric, G., Pierri, F., Chang, H., & Ferrara, E. (2023). What are Your Pronouns? Examining Gender Pronoun Usage on Twitter Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Workshop on the Data for the Wellbeing of the Most Vulnerable. https://doi.org/10.36190/2023.02

Bisberg, A.*, Jiang, J.*, Zeng, Y., Chen, E., & Ferrara, E. The Gift That Keeps on Giving: Generosity is Contagious in Multiplayer Online Games. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW2), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3555120

Chen, E.*, Jiang, J.*, Chang, H.C.H., Muric, G., & Ferrara E. (2022). Charting the Information and Misinformation Landscape to Characterize Misinfodemics on Social Media: COVID-19 Infodemiology Study at a Planetary Scale.JMIR Infodemiology,2(1). https://doi.org/10.2196/32378

Matsui A.*, Chen E.*, Wang Y. & Ferrara E. (2021). The Impact of Peer Review on the Contribution Potential of Scientific Papers. PeerJ 9:e11999 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11999

Allen, O., Chen, E., Ferrara E. Pictures as a Form of Protest: A Survey and Analysis of Images Posted During the Stop Asian Hate Movement on Twitter. [Extended abstract accepted to the 7th National Workshop for REU Research in Networking and Systems (REUNS 2021)]

Rao, A., Morstatter, F., Hu, M., Chen, E., Burghardt, K., Ferrara, E. & Lerman, K. (2021). Political Partisanship and Anti-Science Attitudes in Online Discussions about Covid-19. Journal of Medical Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.2196/26692

Chen, E., Deb, A., & Ferrara, E. (2021). #Election2020: The first public twitter dataset on the 2020 US presidential election. Journal of Computational Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-021-00117-9 [Github]

Chen, E., Chang, H., Rao, A., Lerman, K. & Ferrara, E. (2021). COVID-19 Misinformation and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-57

Chang, H. C. H.*, Chen, E.*, Zhang, M.*, Muric, G.*, & Ferrara, E. (2021). Social Bots and Social Media Manipulation in 2020: The Year in Review. Arxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08436 [Submitted as a chapter in the Handbook of Computational Social Science]

Ferrara, E., Chang, H., Chen, E., Muric, G., & Patel, J. (2020). Characterizing Social Media Manipulation in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. First Monday, 25(11). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i11.11431 [Accepted at ICA, 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference, Acceptance Rate: 38%]

Jiang, J., Chen, E., Yan, S., Lerman, K. & Ferrara, E. (2020). Political Polarization Drives Online Conversations About Covid-19 in the United States. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies. doi:10.1002/hbe2.202

Chen, E., Lerman, K. & Ferrara, E. (2020). Tracking Social Media Discourse About the Covid-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set. JMIR Public Health Surveillance,6(2), e19273. doi:10.2196/19273 [Github]

Wang, Y., Xu, T., Wu, A., Liu, M., & Chen, E.. “Our Saving Grace” The Social Simulation Game Animal Crossing’s Restorative Power During the COVID-19 Pandemic. [Accepted to the National Communication Association Conference]

Scott, A. L., Chang, H.C.H., Phelps, A., Murphy, S. & Chen, E. When Politics and a Pandemic Collide: Comparing the Use and Abuse of the Most Popular Government and Academic COVID-19 Data Platforms on Twitter. [Submitted to the International Journal of Communication and the National Communication Association Conference]

* indicates equal contribution

Presentations


Chen, E. Cultivating a Twitter Dataset for Academic Research using Twitter API v2.

  • Invited to present an online workshop and webinar hosted by TwitterDev on Twitch (January 2022)

Allen, O., Chen, E., Ferrara E. Pictures as a Form of Protest: A Survey and Analysis of Images Posted During the Stop Asian Hate Movement on Twitter.

  • Presented at the 7th National Workshop for REU Research in Networking and Systems (REUNS 2021)]

Ferrara, E., Chang, H., Chen, E., Muric, G., & Patel, J(2020). Characterizing Social Media Manipulation in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. First Monday, 25(11). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i11.11431

  • Presented at the 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference (May 2021)

Wang, Y., Chen, E. & Liu, M. “Animal Crossing: New Horizon”:, A Social Simulation Game’s User Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

  • Presented at the USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship Research and Creative Project Symposium (April 2021)

Chen E.*, Matsui A.*, Wang Y., & Ferrara E. The Impact of Peer Review on the Contribution Potential of Scientific Papers.

  • Oral presentation at International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Cambridge, MA (July 2020) [Acceptance Rate: 41%]
  • Poster presentation at University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering Computer Science Annual Research Day (March 2020)
  • Poster presentation at Information Sciences Institute Research Day, Redondo Beach, CA (January 2020)

Chen E.*, Jiang J.*, Morstatter F., Lerman K. & Ferrara E. Ageism in Traffic Policing Activity.

  • Oral presentation at International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Cambridge, MA (July 2020) [Acceptance Rate: 41%]

* indicates equal contribution

Academic Service and Involvement


Reviewer for The Web Conference 2024 (WWW '24)

Reviewer for International Journal of Communication

Reviewer for PLOS One

Reviewer for International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ’23)

Reviewer for The Web Conference 2023 (WWW '23)

Program Committee member for The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '23)

Reviewer for Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’22)

Reviewer for BMC Public Health

Reviewer for USC Ph.D. Applications 2022

Reviewer for Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review

Reviewer for 2021 Conference for Truth and Trust Online (TTO '21)

Reviewer for Language Resources and Evaluation

Program Committee member for Web Science Conference 2021 (WebSci ’21)

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) mentor (Summer 2021)

Reviewer for USC Ph.D. Applications 2021

Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Computer Science Department Ph.D. Liason (University of Southern California, 2020-2021)

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) mentor (Summer 2020)

Program Committee member for Web Science Conference 2020 (WebSci ’20)

Reviewer for The Web Conference 2020 (WWW '20)

Reviewer for International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet ’20)

Reviewer for USC Ph.D. Applications 2020

Honors and Awards


University of Southern California Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship 2021

University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering Best Computer Science RA Ph.D. Award 2021 (Awarded May 6, 2021)

University of Southern California Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship 2020

Teaching Experience


Teaching Assistant for CSCI 561 : Introduction to AI (January 2023 - May 2023)

Teaching Assistant for CSCI 103 : Introduction to Programming (August 2022 - December 2022)

Teaching Assistant for COMM 599 Special Topics: Data Science for Communication & Social Networks (January 2020 - May 2020)

Teaching Assistant for COMM 557 : Data Science for Communication & Social Networks (August 2020 - December 2020)

  • Tutorial materials are all published in one of my Github repositories.

Teaching Assistant for COMM 599 Special Topics: Data Science for Communication & Social Networks (January 2020 - May 2020)

  • Designing and teaching lab tutorials while also providing support for students outside of class. Tutorial materials are all published in one of my Github repositories.

Work Experience


USC Graduate Research Assistant (August 2019 - Present)

Amazon Alexa Applied Research Scientist II Intern (September 2017 – August 2019)

  • Worked on the web-based question answer (WBQA) team at Alexa AI – Web Information, with a focus on sensitive topic detection and mitigation
  • Developed proof of concept pipeline to extract events and integrate social media into the Alexa answering ecosystem

Cisco Software Engineer (September 2017 – August 2019)

  • Worked as a part of the Service Provider BU to support the Service Layer API (can be found here on Github).

Cisco Software Engineer Intern (May 2016 – August 2016)

  • Summer internship in CSG (Core Software Group), Cisco's network routing protocol group.
  • Researched latest routing protocol modeling languages based on NETCONF configuration protocols and YANG for use in SL API.
  • Developed BGP, RIB, IPv4 and IPv6 protocol network layer data models to API compiler proof of concept using Python, JINJA, YANG, gRPC and JSON.

National Center for Supercomputing Applications Students Pushing Innovation Intern (July 2015 – October 2017)

  • Worked under Professor Andre Schleife (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • Created “Raytracing for Understanding Optical Properties of Materials” analysis and visualization tools using Blender and LuxRender for 3-D modeling and rendering, Python and Bash for analysis and scripting on the Blue Waters super computer nodes.
  • Designed Python-based data analytics tools for semiconductor nanocrystal materials compositions and constructed a scalable infrastructure from scratch for future expansion of this tool.

Community Technology Education Innovator (July 2015 – August 2016)

  • Conceptualized and taught the robotics curriculum to 6th-12th graders, with emphasis on computer aided design, electronics and programming. Continued on to work as a lab facilitator.

Skills


  • Advanced proficiency in C, Python, Machine Language (LC3, x86 architecture)
  • Intermediate proficiency in gRPC, YANG, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Java, GoLang, Bash, C++
  • Development Environments Used – PyPE, Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Experience with UNIX/LINUX interface
  • Experience with Blender/Python API, Luxrender
  • Fluent in Mandarin

Outside of Work (Volunteering and Miscellanious Projects)


Sophomore Tutor Lead Instructor (Minds Matter Southern California) (August 2020 - Present)

  • Curating and teaching SAT math curriculm for low-income sophomore students.

Women of Impact (Cisco) (November 2017 – March 2018)

  • Co-organized Cisco’s largest women in technology event at the San Jose headquarters. Personally coordinated 70+ volunteers, and brought in 18 high-level executives. The event had over 700 registrants, which was a 30% increase from previous years.

Emily Chen

Last Updated : 12/11/2023