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Kathleen Carley - Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA, US

Kathleen Carley Kathleen Carley

Professor | Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES

Carley’s research combines cognitive science, social networks, and computer science to address complex social and organizational problems.

Biography

Carley specializes in network science, agent-based modeling and text-mining within a complex socio-technical system, organizational and social theory framework. In her work, she examines how cognitive, social and institutional factors come together to impact individual, organizational and societal outcomes. Using this lens, she has addressed a number of policy issues including counter-terrorism, human and narcotic trafficking, cyber and nuclear threat, organizational resilience and design, natural disaster preparedness, cyber threat in social media, and leadership. Carley is the director of the Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybersecurity (IDeaS), which is focused on fighting the spread of online disinformation. She also serves as the director of the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS), a university wide interdisciplinary center that brings together network analysis, computer science, and organization science. She has served as a task force member of the Defense Science Board and committee member on the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology. She is the developer of the ORA software for network analytics and visualization that is widely used in academics, organizations and government.

Areas of Expertise (1)

Cybersecurity/Privacy

Education (2)

Harvard University: Ph.D., Sociology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: S.B., Economics and Political Science

Media Appearances (3)

Elon Musk Wants to Get Rid Of One of the Worst Parts of Twitter

The Street  online

2022-04-22

"Tweeting more frequently than is humanly possible, or appearing to be in one country and then another a few hours later is indicative of a bot," Kathleen Carley, a computer science professor at the university, said.

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Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots

NPR  online

2020-05-20

"We do know that it looks like it's a propaganda machine, and it definitely matches the Russian and Chinese playbooks, but it would take a tremendous amount of resources to substantiate that," said Kathleen Carley, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who is conducting a study into bot-generated coronavirus activity on Twitter that has yet to be published.

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Virus misinformation flourishes in online protest groups

AP News  online

2020-04-21

Twitter users are also pushing YouTube video links that describe the coronavirus as a hoax or promoting farflung theories that it was created in a lab, using the hashtags ReOpen or Gridlock, said Kathleen Carley, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab Security and Privacy Institute. Trump has also floated the idea that the virus is man-made.

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