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Overview

Yu-Ru Lin is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. The scientific work focuses primarily on the social sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, communication, statistical and nonlinear physics, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The main research topics covered by Yu-Ru Lin include:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced battery technologies research

Yu-Ru Lin has contributed to various journals and conference venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
  • Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research

Recent scholarly papers by Yu-Ru Lin and collaborators are:

  • #Bigbirds Never Die: Understanding Social Dynamics of Emergent Hashtags, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • More Voices Than Ever? Quantifying Media Bias in Networks, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • The dynamics of Twitter users' gun narratives across major mass shooting events, 2020, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Additional notable papers authored by others but relevant within the broader research field include:

  • Data-Driven Computational Social Science: A Survey, 2020, Big Data Research
  • Accuracy of long-form data in the Taiwan cancer registry, 2021, Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

Yu-Ru Lin collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Wen-Ting Chung
  • Yongsu Ahn
  • Huai-Ting Huang
  • Yeh-Fang Hu
  • Yan-Gu Lin

Best Publications

  • Facetnet: a framework for analyzing communities and their evolutions in dynamic networks

    Yu-Ru Lin;Yun Chi;Shenghuo Zhu;Hari Sundaram

  • Analyzing communities and their evolutions in dynamic social networks

    Yu-Ru Lin;Yun Chi;Shenghuo Zhu;Hari Sundaram

  • Recipe recommendation using ingredient networks

    Chun-Yuen Teng;Yu-Ru Lin;Lada A. Adamic

  • How Does the Data Sampling Strategy Impact the Discovery of Information Diffusion in Social Media

    Munmun De Choudhury;Yu Ru Lin;Hari Sundaram;K. Selçuk Candan

  • MetaFac: community discovery via relational hypergraph factorization

    Yu-Ru Lin;Jimeng Sun;Paul Castro;Ravi Konuru

  • Whisper: Tracing the Spatiotemporal Process of Information Diffusion in Real Time

    Nan Cao;Yu-Ru Lin;Xiaohua Sun;D. Lazer

  • #FluxFlow: Visual Analysis of Anomalous Information Spreading on Social Media

    Jian Zhao;Nan Cao;Zhen Wen;Yale Song

  • FacetAtlas: Multifaceted Visualization for Rich Text Corpora

    Nan Cao;Jimeng Sun;Yu-Ru Lin;D Gotz

  • Rising tides or rising stars?: Dynamics of shared attention on Twitter during media events.

    Yu Ru Lin;Brian Keegan;Drew Margolin;David Lazer

  • TargetVue: Visual Analysis of Anomalous User Behaviors in Online Communication Systems

    Nan Cao;Conglei Shi;Sabrina Lin;Jie Lu

  • FairSight: Visual Analytics for Fairness in Decision Making

    Yongsu Ahn;Yu-Ru Lin

  • Tracking employment shocks using mobile phone data

    Jameson Lawrence Toole;Yu-Ru Lin;Erich Muehlegger;Daniel Shoag

  • Discovery of Blog Communities based on Mutual Awareness

    Yu-Ru Lin;Hari Sundaram;Yun Chi;Jun Tatemura

  • Voila: Visual Anomaly Detection and Monitoring with Streaming Spatiotemporal Data

    Nan Cao;Chaoguang Lin;Qiuhan Zhu;Yu-Ru Lin

  • Blog Community Discovery and Evolution Based on Mutual Awareness Expansion

    Yu-Ru Lin;Hari Sundaram;Yun Chi;Junichi Tatemura

  • #Bigbirds Never Die: Understanding Social Dynamics of Emergent Hashtags

    Yu-Ru Lin;Drew Margolin;Brian Keegan;Andrea Baronchelli

  • Splog detection using self-similarity analysis on blog temporal dynamics

    Yu-Ru Lin;Hari Sundaram;Yun Chi;Junichi Tatemura

  • The ripple of fear, sympathy and solidarity during the Boston bombings

    Yu-Ru Lin;Drew Margolin

  • Connecting content to community in social media via image content, user tags and user communication

    Munmun De Choudhury;Hari Sundaram;Yu-Ru Lin;Ajita John

  • SocialHelix: visual analysis of sentiment divergence in social media

    Nan Cao;Lu Lu;Yu-Ru Lin;Fei Wang

  • Voices of victory: a computational focus group framework for tracking opinion shift in real time

    Yu-Ru Lin;Drew Margolin;Brian Keegan;David Lazer

  • More Voices Than Ever? Quantifying Media Bias in Networks

    Yu-Ru Lin;James P. Bagrow;David Lazer

  • Data-driven Computational Social Science: A Survey

    Jun Zhang;Wei Wang;Feng Xia;Yu-Ru Lin

  • Twitter in academic events

    Denis Parra;Christoph Trattner;Diego Gómez;Matías Hurtado

  • #Bigbirds Never Die: Understanding Social Dynamics of Emergent Hashtag

    Yu-Ru Lin;Drew Margolin;Brian Keegan;Andrea Baronchelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Hari Sundaram
Hari Sundaram University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nan Cao
Nan Cao Tongji University
David Lazer
David Lazer Northeastern University
Belle L. Tseng
Belle L. Tseng Apple (United States)
Yun Chi
Yun Chi Robinhood
Jimeng Sun
Jimeng Sun University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Munmun De Choudhury
Munmun De Choudhury Georgia Institute of Technology
Hanghang Tong
Hanghang Tong University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Karen S. Quigley
Karen S. Quigley Northeastern University
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University

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