James Caverlee

Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
infolab
[my_last_name] 'at' cse.tamu.edu

Industry engagement: Amazon Scholar

Research: My research targets topics from recommender systems, social media, information retrieval, data mining, and emerging networked information systems. My work typically focuses on:

  • threats to these systems, including social spam/bots, crowd-powered strategic manipulation, collective attention threats, attacks on search engines, and other emerging threats; and
  • new beneficial algorithms and frameworks for these systems, including our work on fairness in recommendation, geo-social characteristics of social media, user modeling, expert detection, and neural models of ranking and recommendation.

About me: I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2007, co-advised by Ling Liu (CS) and Bill Rouse (ISYE). Before that, I earned two M.S. degrees from Stanford University: one in Computer Science in 2001 and one in Engineering-Economic Systems & Operations Research in 2000. My undergraduate degree is a B.A. in Economics (magna cum laude) from Duke University in 1996. I joined the faculty at Texas A&M in 2007. I spent most of my sabbatical in 2015 at Google as a Visiting Scientist in Ed Chi's group. I've been honored to receive an NSF CAREER award, DARPA Young Faculty award, a AFOSR Young Investigator award, as well as several teaching awards. Recently co-organized WSDM 2020 with Xia "Ben" Hu. Thank you to everyone who helped make this a successful conference!

Acknowledgments: Our lab has been generously supported by NSF, DARPA, AFOSR, Google, Amazon, the Texas A&M College of Engineering, and Texas A&M. Thank you!

Some recent projects:

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Publications

See also my publications at DBLP, Google Scholar, and at Semantic Scholar. 2007 and earlier

Students

Current and Former PhD Students

Current and Former MS Students

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Teaching

Courses at Texas A&M

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