Alessandro Flammini

Alessandro Flammini is a Professor at the School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at Indiana University, Bloomington. His work bridges Statistical Physics with Complex Networks and Computational Social Science, focusing on understanding and analyzing social media ecosystems, including bot detection and misinformation tracking.

Research Highlights:

• Developed the OSoMe platform for studying online social media
• Co-created Hoaxy to track online misinformation
• Contributed to DARPA-funded bot detection research

Publication Trends: Recent work emphasizes social network security, misinformation propagation, and computational analysis of social media, with interdisciplinary applications in computer science and information integrity.