Kathleen Carley

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residence = United States
citizenship = American
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fields = Social network analysis
Computational sociology
Telecommunication policy
Biosecurity
workplaces = Carnegie Mellon University
alma_mater = Harvard University (1984)
MIT (1978)
doctoral_advisor = Harrison White
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known_for = Dynamic network analysis
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Kathleen M. Carley is an American social scientist specializing in dynamic network analysis. She is a professor in the School of Computer Science in the Institute for Software Research International at Carnegie Mellon University and also holds appointments in the Tepper School of Business, the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, and the Department of Social and Decision Sciences.

Background

Carley received an S.B. in Economics and an S.B. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 1984. Her Ph.D. advisor was Harrison White.

Research

Carley's research combines cognitive science, social networks and computer science to address complex social and organizational problems. Her most notable research contribution was the establishment of Dynamic network analysis (DNA). In addition, she has also contributed to research on computational social and organization theory, adaptation and evolution, text mining, and the impact of telecommunication technologies and policy on communication, information diffusion, disease contagion and response within and among groups particularly in disaster or crisis situations.

She is the director of the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS), a university-wide interdisciplinary center that brings together network science, computer science, and organizational studies and has an associated NSF funded training program for Ph.D. students. Her research on dynamic network analysis has resulted in tools for analyzing large scale dynamic networks and various multi-agent simulation systems. Her CASOS group has developed tools for text-mining semantic networks (AutoMap), simulating epidemiological models (BioWar), and simulating covert networks (DyNet).

Carley is the founding co-editor of the journal Computational Organization Theory. She has co-edited several books in the computational organizations and dynamic network area.

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External links

* [http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/bios/carley/carley.html CMU home page]
* [http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu CASOS homepage]