Event type:

In person

Date & time:

30 Apr 2018, 16:00 – 17:00

ACE Seminar: Data-driven Research for Advanced Modeling and Analysis

Professor Jeremy Blackburn of UAB will discuss how his work has overcome a host of new challenges for researchers hoping to gain an understanding of modern socio-technical behavior the Web has brought about.

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ACE Seminar: Data-driven Research for Advanced Modeling and Analysis

Prof. Jeremy Blackburn

Assistant Professor

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Jeremy is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at UAB. In a nutshell, Jeremy’s work can be described as studying jerks on the Internet and has been covered in the media by The Atlantic, Nature, the BBC, Vice, New Scientist, and MIT Technology Review, among others. Although his foundations are in large-scale distributed systems, he has spent the majority of his time measuring and understanding bad behavior on the world’s largest distributed system, the World Wide Web. His research has ranged from studying how cheating behavior spreads like a disease through a global network of online video game players, to understanding and predicting toxic behavior in the world’s most popular multiplayer video game, and more recently, understanding online hate speech, harassment campaigns, and the influence of fringe Web communities through the lens of fake news. In addition to this line of work, Jeremy has published on more traditional Computer Science topics like middlebox enabling cryptographic protocols, privacy preserving Web surfing technologies, detection of Web trackers, performance of mobile applications, Software Defined Networks, measuring the adoption of new Web protocols, and understanding human perception of Web page performance.

Further information

Ticketing

Open

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Organiser

Emiliano De Cristofaro

e.decristofaro@ucl.ac.uk