Tuesday, September 16, 2014

SNA All Star: Kathleen M. Carley

Kathleen M. Carley is currently a Professor in the School of Computer Science in the department at the Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University. She also holds teaching appointments at the Social and Decision Sciences Department of the H. John Heinz III College and at the Tepper School of Business, Engineering and Public Policy Department. Professor Carley specializes in organization theory, dynamic network analysis, social networks, multi-agent systems and computational social science, adaptation and evolution, text mining, and the impact of telecommunication technologies and policy on communication, information diffusion, disease contagion and response within and among groups particularly in disaster or crisis situations.

Further, Professor Carley is the Director of Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS), a university wide interdisciplinary center that brings together network analysis, computer science and organization science with over 25 members (faculty and staff) and has a funded training program for Ph.D. students. She and her team at the Center have developed infrastructure tools for analyzing large scale dynamic networks and various multi-agent simulation systems including tools  such as ORA (toolkit for analyzing and visualizing multi-dimensional networks), AutoMap (extracts networks from texts and cross-classifies them) BioWar (city-scale network based model to understand the spread of disease and illness due to natural epidemics, chemical spills, biological attacks) and DyNet (covert networks), among others.


Additionally, she is the founding co-editor with Al. Wallace of the journal Computational Organization Theory and has co-edited several books in the computational organizations and dynamic network area, such as Behavioral Modeling and Simulation, From Individuals to Societies (Kathleen M. Carley, et al., 2008, Greg L. Zacharias, Jean MacMillan and Susan B. Van Hemel, editors, National Academies Press, Washington, DC) and Modeling Community Containment for Pandemic Influenza: A Letter Report (Kathleen M. Carley, et al., 2006, Sallie Keller-McNulty, Kirstie L. Bellman, Washington, DC: National Academy Press).

http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/bios/carley/carley.html
http://www.epp.cmu.edu/people/bios/carley.html
http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/index.php

1 comment:

Christopher Tunnard said...

Nicely done. She spends a lot of time in Washington, for reasons you've made obvious.