Farshad Kooti

Contact Info:

E-mail:

    farshad [at] mpi-sws [dot] org

Postal address:

    Max Planck Institute for

    Software Systems,

    Campus E 1 4,

    D-66123 Saarbrucken,

    Germany.

Phone:

    +49 681-9303-8613

Fax:

    +49 681-9303-699

Please visit my new website here.

As of August 2012, I am a PhD student at the University of Southern California (USC), Information Sciences Institute (ISI) under supervision of Kristina Lerman. My main research interest is the study of large and complex networks, especially online social networks, which includes the measurement and analysis of social activity in OSNs.

Before joining USC, I got my master's from Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany. I worked with Krishna Gummadi as my advisor and also with Meeyoung Cha (KAIST) and Winter Mason (Stevens Institute of Technology) during my master's.

Publications:

  •  Predicting Emerging Social Conventions in Online Social Networks

    Farshad Kooti, Winter A. Mason, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Meeyoung Cha

    Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’12), Hawaii, USA 2012. (PDF)

  •  The Emergence of Conventions in Online Social Networks "Best paper award"

    Farshad Kooti, Haeryun Yang, Meeyoung Cha, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Winter A. Mason

    Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’12), Dublin, Ireland 2012. (PDF)

  •  Geographical Dissection of the Twitter Network

    Juhi Kulshrestha, Farshad Kooti, Ashkan Nikravesh, and Krishna P. Gummadi

    Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’12), Dublin, Ireland 2012. (PDF)

    Link to some of the maps: Twitter population maps

 •  Understanding and Combating Link Farming in the Twitter Social Network

   Saptarshi Ghosh, Bimal Viswanath, Farshad Kooti, Naveen Kumar Sharma, Korlam Gautam, Fabricio Benevenuto, Niloy Ganguly, and Krishna P. Gummadi

    Proceedings of the 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’12), Lyon, France, April 2012.(PDF)

  •  The birth of retweeting conventions in Twitter

    Meeyoung Cha, Krishna P. Gummadi, Farshad Kooti, Winter A. Mason, and Haeryun Yang

    Abstract paper in 3rd Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet’12), Melbourne, USA, March 2012. (PDF)