Filippo Menczer is an associate professor of informatics and computer science, adjunct associate professor of physics, and a member of the cognitive science program at Indiana University, Bloomington. He holds a Laurea in Physics from the University of Rome and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Menczer has been the recipient of Fulbright, Rotary Foundation, and NATO fellowships, and is a fellow-at-large of the Santa Fe Institute. His research is supported by a Career Award from the National Science Foundation and focuses on Web, text, and data mining, Web intelligence, distributed information systems, social Web search, adaptive intelligent agents, complex systems and networks, and artificial life.