15 Facts About Filippo Menczer

Filippo Menczer was born on 16 May 1965 and is an American and Italian academic.

Filippo Menczer is a University Distinguished Professor and the Luddy Professor of Informatics and Computer Science at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University.

Filippo Menczer holds courtesy appointments in Cognitive Science and Physics, is a founding member and advisory council member of the IU Network Science Institute, a former director the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, a senior research fellow of the Kinsey Institute, a fellow of the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication, and a former fellow of the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin, Italy.

Filippo Menczer holds a Laurea in physics from the Sapienza University of Rome and a PhD in computer science and cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego.

Filippo Menczer used to be an assistant professor of management sciences at the University of Iowa, and a fellow-at-large of the Santa Fe Institute.

Filippo Menczer has been the recipient of Fulbright, Rotary Foundation, and NATO fellowships, and a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

Filippo Menczer holds editorial positions for the journals Network Science, EPJ Data Science, PeerJ Computer Science, and HKS Misinformation Review.

Filippo Menczer has served as program or track chair for various conferences including The Web Conference and the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media.

Filippo Menczer was general chair of the ACM Web Science 2014 Conference and general co-chair of the NetSci 2017 Conference.

Filippo Menczer's research focuses on Web science, social networks, social media, social computation, Web mining, data science, distributed and intelligent Web applications, and modeling of complex information networks.

Filippo Menczer introduced the idea of topical and adaptive Web crawlers, a specialized and intelligent type of Web crawler.

The group led by Filippo Menczer has analyzed and modeled how memes, information, and misinformation spread through social media in domains such as the Occupy movement, the Gezi Park protests, and political elections.

Data and tools from Filippo Menczer's lab have aided in finding the roots of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and the disinformation campaign targeting the White Helmets, and in taking down voter-suppression bots on Twitter.

Analysis by Filippo Menczer's team demonstrated the echo-chamber structure of information-diffusion networks on Twitter during the 2010 United States elections.

Filippo Menczer's team studied perceptions of partisan political bots, finding that Republican users are more likely to confuse conservative bots with humans, whereas Democratic users are more likely to confuse conservative human users with bots.