Indiana University Bloomington

School of Informatics and Computing

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Filippo Menczer

Filippo Menczer

Associate Professor of Informatics and Computer Science

Phone
(812) 856-1377
Fax
(812) 856-4764
Office
Informatics East, Room 226
Hours
Please see Michele Dompke
Web Site
www.informatics.indiana.edu/fil

Other Titles

  • Associate Professor of Cognitive Science
  • Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics

Research Interests

Complex systems, adaptive agents, artificial life; modeling and mining complex information, technological, and social networks, especially the Web; social Web applications.

Research Projects

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Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego, 1998
  • M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego, 1994
  • Laurea in Physics from the University of Rome, 1991

Biography

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 a Career Award from the National Science Foundation. He is the Associate Director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research in the IU School of Informatics, a Fellow-at-large of the Santa Fe Institute, and a Lagrange Senior Fellow at the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation in Torino, Italy. His research is supported by the NSF and focuses on Web, text, and data mining, social Web applications, distributed and intelligent Web information systems, and modeling of complex information networks.