Yu-Ru Lin

Yu-Ru Lin is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, and serves as Research & Academic Director at the Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security (Pitt Cyber). She leads the Pitt Computational Social Dynamics Lab (PICSO Lab) and holds secondary appointments in Political Science, Computer Science, and the Intelligent Systems Program.

• PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University
• Postdoctoral research at Harvard University and Northeastern University

Her research focuses on computational approaches for:

• Networked social dynamics
• High-dimensional social information summarization
• Trust and distrust propagation
• Misinformation detection
• Policy diffusion analysis

Recent publications span 2014-2020, covering:

• Social media crisis response
• Graph visualization techniques
• Policy diffusion patterns
• Misinformation mitigation
• Temporal topic modeling

Scientific support includes:

• National Science Foundation (NSF) awards
• Minerva/ONR funding
• AFOSR grant for distrust modeling
• DARPA Understanding Group Biases program

As director of PICSO Lab, she leads interdisciplinary research teams on:

• Digital accountability
• Urban mobility patterns
• Health informatics via crowdsourcing
• Trust-influence dynamics