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Institution

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Yu-Ru Lin

Associate Professor

University of Pittsburgh

Affiliations

Computing and Information

Informatics and Networked Systems

Intelligent Systems Programs

School of Computing and Information

Intelligent Systems Program

Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

Political Science

Yu-ru Lin is currently serving as a Computing And Information Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh.

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Yu-Ru Lin

University of Pittsburgh

Associate Professor

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communication social media data science computer science online information social network analysis mass communication machine learning knowledge discovery social sciences social medium mining social computing data mining social medium data visualization information retrieval information visualization community discovery social simulation community structure social medium monitoring community mining scholarly communication semantic evaluation multimedia information processing recommender systems rumor spreading human-computer interaction social media streams web search political analysis social science research multimedia retrieval political behavior digital mediums machine learning research visual analytics social data analysis spam filtering graph analysis graph processing news analytics information diffusion social multimedia tagging social networks misinformation visual analysis informetrics computational visualization anomaly detection social medium visualization interactive visualization online communities internet science community networks information propagation splog detection spam blog community evolution data stream mining graph matching network visualizations visual data mining content representation educational data mining social network data metagraph factorization spatiotemporal data self-similarity analysis team member replacement image content junior scholars activity themes location-based social network temporal smoothness forest fire political networks political science computational social science computational sociology

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

The Digitally Accountable Public Representation Database: Measuring Online Communication by Federal, State, and Local Officials. (2025)

Yuehong Cassandra TaiNitheesha NakkaKhushi Navin PatniSarah RajtmajerKevin MungerYu-Ru LinBruce Desmarais

public administrationgovernment transparencymeasuring online communicationlocal officialsgovernment informationcommunicationpolitical communicationgovernment communicationinformation technologypublic policy

Break out of a Pigeonhole: A Unified Framework for Examining Miscalibration, Bias, and Stereotype in Recommender Systems. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (2024)

Yongsu AhnYu-Ru Lin

unified frameworkcomputer sciencesystems engineeringintelligent systemsdecision sciencealgorithmic biasbiasuser perceptionbehavioral sciences

Classifying Conspiratorial Narratives at Scale: False Alarms and Erroneous Connections. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2024)

Ahmad DiabRr. NefrianaYu-Ru Lin

rumor spreadingfalse alarmsnarrativemisinformationdisinformation detectionerroneous connectionssocial mediamedia studiesonline informationdeception detectioncommunicationconspiratorial narrativesmass communicationscreen mediumtext mininginformation warfaresocial computing

From Posts to Pavement, or Vice Versa? the Dynamic Interplay Between Online Activism and Offline Confrontations. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2024)

Muheng YanAmy Yunyu ChiangYu-Ru Lin

offline confrontationssocial mediacommunicationonline activismintellectual discoursemass communicationpolitical communicationdynamic interplayactivism

Interactive Counterfactual Exploration of Algorithmic Harms in Recommender Systems. (2024)

Yongsu AhnQuinn K WolterJonilyn DickJanet DickYu-Ru Lin

interactive counterfactual explorationcomputer sciencerecommender systemsexploratory data analysisalgorithmic harmsalgorithmic biassocial mediaharm reductionevidence-based recommendationsdata miningcomputational social sciencedata sciencemachine learning researchalgorithmic fairnesscold-start problemmachine learning

Social Risks in the Era of Generative AI. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2024)

Xiaozhong LiuYu‐Ru LinZhuoren JiangQunfang Wu

political analysissocial fabricmisinformationcommunicationdiscourse analysisintellectual discoursepolitical communicationethics of artificial intelligencelanguageresponsible aihuman-ai interactionsocial risksgai technologies

ESCAPE: Countering Systematic Errors From Machine’s Blind Spots via Interactive Visual Analysis. (2023)

Yongsu AhnYu-Ru LinPanpan XuZeng Dai

computer scienceinteractive visual analysiscomputer visioncountering systematic errorsblind spotserror correctionmachine visionmachine learning

HUNGERGIST: An Interpretable Predictive Model for Food Insecurity. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (2023)

Yongsu AhnMuheng YanYu-Ru LinZian Wang

predictive analyticsinterpretable predictive modelbehavioral sciencesfood insecurity

Mapping Language Literacy at Scale: A Case Study on Facebook. EPJ Data Science (2023)

Yu-Ru LinShaomei WuWinter Mason

information literacylanguage literacysocial mediacommunicationdigital literacydata science

Online to Offline Crossover of White Supremacist Propaganda. (2023)

Ahmad DiabBolor-Erdene JagdagdorjLynnette Hui Xian NgYu-Ru LinMichael Miller Yoder

rumor spreadingsocial mediahate speechwhite supremacist propagandacommunicationmass communicationpolitical communicationwhite supremacyinformation warfare

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Yu-Ru Lin

Associate Professor

University of Pittsburgh

Affiliations

Computing and Information

Informatics and Networked Systems

Intelligent Systems Programs

School of Computing and Information

Intelligent Systems Program

Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

Political Science

Yu-ru Lin is currently serving as a Computing And Information Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Yu-Ru Lin

University of Pittsburgh

Associate Professor

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

The Digitally Accountable Public Representation Database: Measuring Online Communication by Federal, State, and Local Officials. (2025)

Yuehong Cassandra TaiNitheesha NakkaKhushi Navin PatniSarah RajtmajerKevin MungerYu-Ru LinBruce Desmarais

Break out of a Pigeonhole: A Unified Framework for Examining Miscalibration, Bias, and Stereotype in Recommender Systems. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (2024)

Yongsu AhnYu-Ru Lin

unified frameworkcomputer sciencesystems engineeringintelligent systemsdecision sciencealgorithmic biasbiasuser perceptionbehavioral sciences

Classifying Conspiratorial Narratives at Scale: False Alarms and Erroneous Connections. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2024)

Ahmad DiabRr. NefrianaYu-Ru Lin

From Posts to Pavement, or Vice Versa? the Dynamic Interplay Between Online Activism and Offline Confrontations. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2024)

Muheng YanAmy Yunyu ChiangYu-Ru Lin

offline confrontationssocial mediacommunicationonline activismintellectual discoursemass communicationpolitical communicationdynamic interplayactivism

Interactive Counterfactual Exploration of Algorithmic Harms in Recommender Systems. (2024)

Yongsu AhnQuinn K WolterJonilyn DickJanet DickYu-Ru Lin

Social Risks in the Era of Generative AI. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2024)

Xiaozhong LiuYu‐Ru LinZhuoren JiangQunfang Wu

ESCAPE: Countering Systematic Errors From Machine’s Blind Spots via Interactive Visual Analysis. (2023)

Yongsu AhnYu-Ru LinPanpan XuZeng Dai

computer scienceinteractive visual analysiscomputer visioncountering systematic errorsblind spotserror correctionmachine visionmachine learning

HUNGERGIST: An Interpretable Predictive Model for Food Insecurity. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (2023)

Yongsu AhnMuheng YanYu-Ru LinZian Wang

predictive analyticsinterpretable predictive modelbehavioral sciencesfood insecurity

Mapping Language Literacy at Scale: A Case Study on Facebook. EPJ Data Science (2023)

Yu-Ru LinShaomei WuWinter Mason

information literacylanguage literacysocial mediacommunicationdigital literacydata science

Online to Offline Crossover of White Supremacist Propaganda. (2023)

Ahmad DiabBolor-Erdene JagdagdorjLynnette Hui Xian NgYu-Ru LinMichael Miller Yoder

rumor spreadingsocial mediahate speechwhite supremacist propagandacommunicationmass communicationpolitical communicationwhite supremacyinformation warfare

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