Center for Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Johan UganderStanford University
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Friday, December 6, 2024 - 3:45pm
Rhodes 655

Bio: Johan Ugander is an Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Management Science & Engineering, within the School of Engineering. His research develops algorithmic and statistical frameworks for analyzing social networks, social systems, and other large-scale social and behavioral data. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty he was a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond 2014-2015 and held an affiliation with the Facebook Data Science team 2010-2014. He obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 2014. His awards include a NSF CAREER Award, a Young Investigator Award from the Army Research Office (ARO), three Best Paper Awards (2012 ACM WebSci Best Paper, 2013 ACM WSDM Best Student Paper, 2020 AAAI ICWSM Best Paper), and the 2016 Eugene L. Grant Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Department of Management Science & Engineering.