Luca Luceri

Luca Luceri is a Research Assistant Professor at the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC) and serves as a Lead Scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI). His work bridges machine learning, data science, and network science to address online harms like misinformation and social media manipulation.

• Education:
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
  • B.S. in Telecommunications Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy

Luca’s research focuses on computational social science and AI for social good, particularly analyzing malicious behaviors and social influence in socio-technical systems. He designs algorithms to detect influence campaigns and online harms, emphasizing actionable mitigation strategies.

His recent publications (e.g., Contextualizing Internet Memes Across Social Media Platforms, Leveraging Large Language Models for Influence Campaign Detection) reflect interdisciplinary trends in network science, NLP, and behavioral modeling applied to real-world socio-political challenges.

• Scientific Awards:
  • Young Investigator Award for AI research (Embassy of Italy)
  • Best Presentation & Paper Awards (Web Conference 2024)
  • Best Paper Award (BeyondFacts’24)

Luca co-leads the DARPA INCAS program and the Swiss NSF-funded CARISMA project, collaborating with policymakers to create scalable tools for combating geopolitical influence campaigns and online harms.