Organizers

General Chairs

Dr. Kristina Lerman, General Co‐Chair, Dept. of Computer Science, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Dr. Kristina Lerman is a Principal Scientist at U. of Southern California Information Sciences Institute and holds a joint appointment as a Research Professor in the USC Computer Science Department. Trained as a physicist, she now applies network analysis and machine learning to problems in computational social science, including crowdsourcing, social network and social media analysis. Her recent work on modeling and understanding cognitive biases in social networks has been covered by the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and MIT Tech Review.

Dr. Ivan Garibay, General Co‐Chair, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, UCF
Dr. Ivan Garibay is an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida. He is the Director of UCF Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Initiative, Director of Master of Science Program in Data Analytics, and the Director of the Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory. He is also the Founding Director of the UCF I‐Corps program. His interests lie in studying complex socio‐technical systems such as social media and artificial social intelligence.

Program Chairs

Dr. Christian Lebiere, Program Co‐Chair, Dept. of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Lebiere is a Research Faculty in the Psychology Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from the CMU School of Computer Science. Since 1991, he has worked on the development of the ACT‐R hybrid cognitive architecture and was co‐author with John R. Anderson of the 1998 book The Atomic Components of Thought. Most recently, Dr. Lebiere has been involved with John Laird and Paul Rosenbloom in defining the Common Model of Cognition, a community‐wide effort to consolidate and formalize the scientific progress resulting from the 40‐year research program in cognitive architectures. Dr. Lebiere is a founding member of the Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Society, the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence. His main research interests are cognitive architectures and their applications to psychology, artificial intelligence, human‐computer interaction, decision‐making, intelligent agents, network science, robotics and neuromorphic engineering.

Dr. Yanbing Mao, Program Co‐Chair, Dept. of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC
Dr. Yanbing Mao received the B.S. degree in Electronic Information Science and Technology from Liaocheng University, Shandong, China, in 2010, and the M.E. degree in Circuits and Systems from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan, China, in 2013. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, USA, in 2019. He is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign. His research interests include social cybersecurity, computational social science, safety and security of cyber‐physical systems and physics‐informed AI.

Program Committee

Ji Liu, Stony Brook University, USA.
M. Amin Rahimian, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Huajie Shao, College of William and Mary, USA.
Shuochao Yao, George Mason University, USA.
Wenjun Mei, Peking University, China.
Mark Orr, University of Virginia, USA.
Ion Juvina, Wright State University, USA.
Michael Martin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Robert Thomson, West Point/Army Cyber Institute, USA.

Steering Committee

Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA (Chair).
Charu Aggarwal, IBM Research, USA.
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA.
Edward Palazzolo, U.S. Army Research Office, USA.
Mani Srivastava, University of California at Los Angeles, USA.
Bolek Szymanski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.
Dong Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA.

Publicity Chair

Chathika Gunaratne, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.

Web Chair

Jasser Jasser, University of Central Florida, USA.