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Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia

  • ️Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia
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Biography

Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia is an assistant professor at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. He is interested in problems originating from the interplay between people and computing systems, in the determinants of information quality in cyberspace, and in how information propagates across social networks, with application to the integrity of information in cyberspace and the trustworthiness and reliability of social computing systems.

Prior to joining UMD he was an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF), where he led the Computational Sociodynamics Laboratory.

Giovanni was the recipient in 2013 of a mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation and received postdoctoral training at the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at Indiana University Bloomington. He later joined the Indiana University Network Science Institute as an assistant research scientist until 2018. Prior to his postdoc, he was an analyst for the Wikimedia Foundation and a research associate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Lugano, Switzerland and a Laurea degree in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His work has been covered in major news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Wired, MIT Technology Review, NPR, and CBS News, to cite a few.

Interests

  • Data Science
  • Network Science
  • Computational Social Science

Education

  • PhD in Informatics, 2012

    University of Lugano

  • MSc in Computer Science, 2007

    Sapienza University of Rome

Selected Publications

The Spread of Low-credibility Content by Social Bots

The massive spread of digital misinformation has been identified as a major threat to democracies. Communication, cognitive, social, and computer scientists are studying the complex causes for the viral diffusion of misinformation, while online platforms […]

Chengcheng Shao, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Onur Varol, Kaicheng Yang, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer

Nat. Comm. 9 4787, 2018

Finding Streams in Knowledge Graphs to Support Fact Checking

The volume and velocity of information that gets generated online limits current journalistic practices to fact-check claims at the same rate. Computational approaches for fact checking may be the key to help mitigate the risks of massive misinformation spread. […]

ICDM, 2017

Gendered Conversation in a Social Game-Streaming Platform

Online social media and games are increasingly replacing offline social activities. Social media is now an indispensable mode of communication; online gaming is not only a genuine social activity but also a popular spectator sport. Although online interaction shrinks social and geographical barriers, it is argued that social disparities, such as gender inequality, persists. […]

Supun Nakandala, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Norman Makoto Su, Yong-Yeol Ahn

ICWSM, 2017

Projects

Hoaxy

Diffusion of digital misinformation and competition with fact-checking information

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