Associate Professor
4-279 CST
rzafaran@syr.edu
315.443.2134
Degree:
- Ph.D., Arizona State University
Research Interests:
- Big Data Analytics
- Data Mining / Web Mining / Social Media Mining
- Social Network Analysis / Social Computing
- Large-Scale Information Networks
- Behavior Analysis
Current Research:
My research lies in the intersection of data mining, machine learning, social sciences, and theory. A common pattern in my research is to collect and analyze large scale data to glean actionable patterns. I often employ theories from social sciences, psychology, or anthropology, in addition to developing and using advanced mathematical, statistical, and machine learning machinery to prove the validity of such patterns.
Courses Taught:
- Data Mining
- Social Media Mining
Selected Publications:
Reza Zafarani and Huan Liu, Evaluation without Ground Truth in Social Media Research, Communications of the ACM, June 2015
Reza Zafarani, Mohammad Ali Abbasi, and Huan Liu, Social Media Mining: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2014