Claudia Wagner is an assistant professor in Computer Science at University Koblenz-Landau and the interim Scientific Director of the department Computational Social Science at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Wagner received her PhD from Graz University of Technology in 2013, before she joined GESIS as postdoctoral researcher (2013-2016). Prior to that she conducted several international research internships, among others at HP labs, Xerox PARC and the Open University. To date, she has been awarded substantial research funding either as a PI or co-PI, was awarded with a DOC-fFORTE fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and received best paper awards (at ESWC 2010, SocialCom 2012, ICWSM 2014 and WebSci 2015). Her research focuses on computational methods and models for analyzing social issues (e.g. gender inequality, sexism) and social phenomena (e.g. collective attention, culture) using digital trace data.
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Samuel V. Scarpino is an Assistant Professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, an ISI Foundation Fellow, and the Chief Strategy Officer at the social impact technology startup Dharma Platform. Scarpino's research spans a broad range of topics in complex systems and network science, including: infectious disease dynamics, forecasting and predictive modeling, disease genomics and transcriptomics, and outbreak surveillance. Outside academia, Sam has 10+ years of experience translating research into public health decision support tools and sits on the scientific advisory board for BioFire Diagnostics's Trend surveillance system and is a strategic advisor to ThinkMD. Sam has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles, is co-editor of the definitive whooping cough text published by Oxford University Press, and serves as Deputy Editor for PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
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Saini Yang received the B.Sc. and M. Eng. degree in Transportation Engineering from Southeast University, China, the Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park, US. She is currently a full professor with Academy of Disaster Management and Emergency Response at Beijing Normal University, China. Her research interests include infrastructure risk assessment and management, complex network modeling and optimization and transportation planning. She is the PI of multiple national key projects, NSFC projects and international collaborative projects and has published more than 70 journal papers. She is the director of International Center for Collaborative Research on Disaster Risk Reduction and the secretary of ASTAAG-UNISDR.
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