Lada Adamic

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

I study the structure and dynamics of social and information networks, with a particular emphasis on information diffusion, expertise sharing, and online communities.

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Recent Publications

Surfing a web of trust: reputation and reciprocity on CouchSurfing.com, Lauterbach, Debra, Truong Hung, Shah Tanuj, and Adamic Lada A. , International Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking (SIN-09), 08/2009, Vancouver, Canada, (2009)

The very small world of the well-connected, Shi, X., Bonner M., Adamic Lada A., and Gilbert A. C. , Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, p.61-70, (2008)

Competing to Share Expertise: the Taskcn Knowledge Sharing Community, Yang, Jiang, Adamic Lada A., and Ackerman Mark S. , ICWSM2008, 04/2008, Seattle, WA, (2008)

When users compete in completing online tasks, we can infer the difficulty of the tasks and the expertise levels of the users by constructing expertise networks.


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Contact:

School of Information
University of Michigan
3082 West Hall
1085 S. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107
Tel&Fax: (734) 615-2132


Blog posts:

Tomorrow's professor & Prof. Hacker
Posted on 18 August 2009 | 3:49 am

Reading books
Posted on 4 August 2009 | 9:07 pm

academic advising
Posted on 28 July 2009 | 4:08 am

SI 508 (networks) is now part of OER
Posted on 23 July 2009 | 4:17 am

Network textbooks are here!
Posted on 4 July 2009 | 1:52 am

reviewing work
Posted on 6 June 2009 | 12:35 am

Thunderbird and PDF
Posted on 4 June 2009 | 10:44 pm

preventing hospital to hospital infection spread
Posted on 30 May 2009 | 9:29 am