Socio-Cultural and Dynamic Information in Social Networks

Socio-Cultural and Dynamic Information in Social Networks Eunice E. Santos (Illinois Institute of Technology) Abstract This talk focuses on computational social systems. In particular, we will discuss how to effectively and systematically represent socio-cultural information in order to provide insights in social networks analyses. We refer to such new network structures as Culturally-Infused Social Networks (CISN). We will also present methods for social networks analyses that are anytime-anywhere methodologies that deal with dynamically changing information. Bio Eunice E. Santos is the Ron Hochsprung Endowed Chair and Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is also the Department Chair of Computer Science. She was a professor at Virginia Tech, Lehigh University, and UTEP, and was a Senior Research Fellow for the Department of Defense Center for Technology and National Security Policy. She has served as the Director of the National Center for Border Security and Immigration, Director of the Center for Defense Systems Research, and Founding Director of the Institute of Defense & Security at UTEP. She is a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (for pioneering work in Computational Social Systems). She has also received an NSF Career Award, the Robinson Faculty Award, the Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching, and other awards. She is a past member of the IDA/DARPA Defense Science Study Group.  She is the Founding co-Editor-in-Chief of the new IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She also has BS and MS degrees in both Mathematics and Computer Science. She is a Fellow of AAAS.