Eric Gilbert

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Eric Gilbert
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PhD and BS)
Known forsocial computing
social media
human-computer interaction
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Computing Tie Strength  (2011)
Doctoral advisor Karrie Karahalios
Website eegilbert.org

Eric Gilbert is an American computer scientist and the John Derby Evans Associate Professor in the University of Michigan School of Information, [1] with a courtesy appointment in CSE. [2] He is known for his work designing and analyzing social media.

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Education and early life

Gilbert received a B.S. with highest distinction in Mathematics & Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. While in college, Gilbert worked as a software engineer on the influential social and learning computing system PLATO. [3] After completing his undergraduate work, he served in Teach For America as a Math and Computer Science teacher at Paul Robeson High School in Chicago. [3] Gilbert obtained a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. [4]

Career and research

Gilbert joined the School of Interactive Computing within the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing in 2011 as an Assistant Professor. There, he led the comp.social lab. [5] After receiving tenure in 2017 at Georgia Tech, Gilbert moved to the School of Information at the University of Michigan as the John Derby Evans Endowed Professor of Information in 2018. [6] He is also appointed within Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan. [7]

Gilbert has made foundational contributions to the fields of social computing and HCI. His research focuses on studying existing—as well as designing new—social media systems. According to Google Scholar, Gilbert's work has been cited over 14,000 times, and he has an h-index of 44. [8]

Media

Gilbert's research—for example on Reddit, [9] [10] Twitter, [11] and Facebook [12] —is frequently covered in the mainstream press.

Awards and honors

Gilbert was one of the recipients of the National Science Foundation CAREER Awards in 2016, [13] the Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award in 2015, [3] and the UIUC CS Distinguished Alumni Award in 2018. [14] During his PhD work, Gilbert won the inaugural Google Ph.D. Fellowship. [15] Gilbert has also won 5 best paper awards from ACM SIGCHI conferences, and received 6 best paper honorable mentions. [3] [16]

Selected works

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  2. ↑ "Gilbert grant to help counter online abusive behavior". University of Michigan. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "CV: Eric Gilbert" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  4. ↑ Gilbert, Eric (2011). Computing Tie Strength (PhD). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. hdl:2142/18285.
  5. ↑ "comp.social lab at georgia tech". Georgia Tech. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  6. ↑ "Summary of Personnel Actions, Regents Agenda, April 2017" (PDF). University of Michigan. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  7. ↑ "Faculty: Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan". University of Michigan. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  8. ↑ "Eric Gilbert - Google Scholar citations" . Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  9. ↑ Roose, Kevin (2017-09-25). "Reddit Limits Noxious Content by Giving Trolls Fewer Places to Gather". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  10. ↑ Stokel-Walker, Chris (2019-08-25). "Explaining why Reddit posts are removed helps people comply with rules". New Scientist. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  11. ↑ Giles, Jim (2010-06-21). "Blogs and tweets could predict the future". New Scientist. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  12. ↑ Naone, Erica (2010-05-14). "Can Social Networks Be Generated Automatically?". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  13. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award#1832811 - CAREER: Machine Learning-Based Approaches Toward Combatting Abusive Behavior in Online Communities". National Science Foundation. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  14. ↑ "Illinois Computer Science Honors Achievements of 13 Alumni and Faculty". University of Illinois. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  15. ↑ "Illinois CS Students Win 2 of 13 Inaugural Google Fellowships". University of Illinois. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  16. ↑ "Best Paper Awards in Computer Science (since 1996)" . Retrieved 2020-03-06.
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