Daniel M. Romero                                                                      PhD Candidate                                                                     Center for Applied Mathematics 657 Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 I am on the job market. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. email: dmr239@cornell.edu On Twitter: @DanielMRomero Go to: Research Interests, Publications, Professional Service, Research Internships, Teaching, CV

Research Interests

My main research interest is the empirical and theoretical analysis of Social and Information Networks. I am particularly interested in the study of network evolution and information diffusion.

My advisor is Jon Kleinberg.  

Publications

1. D.M. Romero, C. Tan, and J. Ugander. "Social-Topical Affiliations: The Interplay between Structure and Popularity." (preprint)

2. D.M. Romero, B. Meeder, and J. Kleinberg "Differences in the Mechanics of Information Diffusion Across Topics: Idioms, Political Hashtags, and Complex Contagion on Twitter." Proc. 20th ACM International World Wide Web Conference, 2011. [Slides] In the press: New York Times, CBS News

3. D.M. Romero, W. Galuba, S. Asur, and B.A. Huberman "Influence and Passivity in Social Media."  Proc. European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2011 [Slides] In the press: New Scientist, The Economist, BBC, MIT Tech Review, Huffington Post, Business Insider, CNet, Mashable

4. J. Cheng, D.M. Romero, B. Meeder, J. Kleinberg. "Predicting Reciprocity in Social Networks. " Proc. 3rd IEEE Conference on Social Computing, 2011.

5. D.M. Romero, B. Meeder, V. Barash, and J. Kleinberg "Maintaining Ties on Social Media Sites: The Competing Effects of Balance, Exchange, and Betweenness."  Proc. 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2011.

6. M.J. Brzozowski and D.M. Romero "Who Should I Follow? Recommending People in Directed Social Networks."  Proc. 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2011.

7. D.M. Romero and J. Kleinberg, "The Directed Closure Process in Hybrid Social-Information Networks, with an Analysis of Link Formation on Twitter." Proc. 4th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2010. [Slides]

8. S. Yardi, D.M. Romero, G. Schoenebeck, and d. boyd, "Detecting spam in a Twitter network." First Monday, Volume 15, Number 1, 2010.

9. D.M. Romero, C. Kribs-Zaleta, A. Mubayi, and C. Orbe "An Epidemiological Approach to the Spread of Political Third Parties." Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 15, 707-738, 2011.

10. B.A. Huberman, D.M. Romero and F. Wu, "Social Networks that Matter: Twitter Under the Microscope."  First Monday, Volume 14, Number 1, 2009.

11. B.A. Huberman, D.M. Romero and F. Wu, "Crowdsourcing, Attention and Productivity."  Journal of Information Sciences, volume 35, number 6, pp. 758-765, 2009. [Slides] In the press: New Scientist

Professional Service

Program Committee Member

External Reviewer

Research Internships

Teaching