John C. Paolillo

John C. Paolillo is an Associate Professor of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University's Luddy School, with an adjunct appointment in Linguistics. He earned his PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University and previously helped establish the Linguistics PhD program at the University of Texas at Arlington. Since joining Indiana University in 2000, his research has focused on statistical models of language and large-scale social network analysis of online activity.

His research interests include statistical analysis of linguistic variation, computational linguistics, and sociolinguistics. He authored Analyzing Linguistic Variation (CSLI Publications, 2002), a foundational work in statistical language analysis.