About me
I am a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) and a Research Scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) in the research group led by Emilio Ferrara. My research leverages machine learning, data science, and network science to detect, investigate, and mitigate online harms in socio-technical systems. I study malicious behaviors, misinformation, and manipulation dynamics on social media to design algorithms for their detection and identify actionable insights for their mitigation. My study and interest fall into research areas such as computational social science, AI for social good, and behavioral science
Research interests
![Data and Network Science](https://www.luceriluc.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Mobile-768x574.png)
My research encompasses machine learning, data and network science for exploring social phenomena in online ecosystem
![Misbehaviors on Social Media](https://www.luceriluc.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/mobile2-768x574.png)
I investigate abusive and malicious behaviours on social media with particular emphasis on misinformation and manipulation dynamics
![Social Influence](https://www.luceriluc.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/mobile3-768x574.png)
I am interested in exploring how social influence can impact information and behaviour diffusion on web platforms and real life
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