I am a Senior Research Scientist at Snap. My work spans the data mining, machine learning, and computational social science domains, and especially focuses on graph-based techniques for user behavior and misbehavior modeling on social platforms.
Before I joined Snap, I defended my PhD thesis in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where I worked on discovering and modeling various types of abusive online behaviors as anomaly detection problems in large networks. I was very fortunate to have been advised by Christos Faloutsos.
Prior to this, I received my B.S. in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. There, I worked with Nagiza Samatova on reduction, indexing and storage systems for large-scale scientific data.
If you would like to learn more about my work, take a look at my publications and CV.