- PhD, Arizona State University
Education & Training
- Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention The AI2000 Most Influential Scholar for outstanding and vibrant contributions to the field of Visualization between 2013 and 2023 (2024)
- Meta Integrity Foundational Research Award (2023)
- Partnerships of Distinction Award (2022)
- Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention, The AI2000 Most Influential Scholar for outstanding and vibrant contributions to the field of Visualization between 2009 and 2019 (2020)
- Faculty Honoree, University of Pittsburgh (2019, 2015, & 2017)
- Service Award, The 2017 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP-BRiMS 2017)
- 2014 Fellow of Kavli Frontiers of Science, National Academy of Sciences (NAS)2011, 2012 NSF Political Networks Fellowship
- Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award in Computer Science, Arizona State University (2011)
- IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award (Academic year: 2009-2010)
- Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Fourth Annual Watson Workshop, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY (2008)
- PhD Student Excellence Awards (Academic years: 2007-2008, 2008-2009)
- Best Paper Award for 2020 for Policy Flow: Interpreting Policy Diffusion in Context, in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (2021)
- Best Student Paper Award for Quantifying Content Polarization on Twitter, in Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (IEEE CIC 2017)
- Best Paper Award for The Dynamics of Group Risk Perception in the US After Paris Attacks, in the 8th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2016)
- Best Paper Honorable Mention Award for What Makes Hyper-Local Online Discussion Forums Sustainable?, in the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2015)
- Best Paper Honorable Mention Award for #FluxFlow: Visual Analysis of Anomalous Information Spreading on Social Media, in IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST 2014)
- Best Paper Award for Chinese Ink Rendering for Trees Using Outline Drawing and Texture Strokes, in Proceedings of 2002 International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology (IWAIT 2022)
Lin, YR and Margolin, D and Wen, X (2017) Tracking and Analyzing Individual Distress Following Terrorist Attacks Using Social Media Streams. Risk Analysis, 37 (8). 1580 - 1605. ISSN 0272-4332
Du, Fan and Cao, Nan and Lin, Yu-Ru and Xu, Panpan and Tong, Hanghang (2017) iSphere: Focus+ Context Sphere Visualization for Interactive Large Graph Exploration. In: the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Pages.
Lu, Z and Lin, YR and Huang, X and Xiong, N and Fang, Z (2017) Visual topic discovering, tracking and summarization from social media streams. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 76 (8). 10855 - 10879. ISSN 1380-7501
Li, L and Tong, H and Cao, N and Ehrlich, K and Lin, YR and Buchler, N (2017) Enhancing Team Composition in Professional Networks: Problem Definitions and Fast Solutions. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 29 (3). 613 - 626. ISSN 1041-4347
Lin, Yu-Ru and Tong, Hanghang and Tang, Jie and Candan, K. Selcuk (2017) Guest Editorial: Big Scholar Data Discovery and Collaboration. IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 3 (1). 2 - 2.
Cao, Nan and Lin, Yu-Ru and Gotz, David and Du, Fan (2017) Z-Glyph: Visualizing outliers in multivariate data. Information Visualization. 147387161668663 - 147387161668663. ISSN 1473-8716
Liu, Zihang and Lin, Yu-Ru and Wang, Maoquan and Lu, Zhao (2016) Discovering Opinion Changes in Online Reviews via Learning Fine-Grained Sentiments. In: 2016 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC).
Lin, YR and Margolin, D and Lazer, D (2016) Uncovering social semantics from textual traces: A theory-driven approach and evidence from public statements of U.S. Members of Congress. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67 (9). 2072 - 2089. ISSN 2330-1635
Cao, Nan and Lin, Yu-Ru and Fan, Du and Dashun, Wang (2016) Episogram: Visual Summarization of Egocentric Social Interactions. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, PP (99). ISSN 0272-1716
Margolin, DB and Goodman, S and Keegan, B and Lin, YR and Lazer, D (2016) Wiki-worthy: collective judgment of candidate notability. Information Communication and Society, 19 (8). 1029 - 1045. ISSN 1369-118X
Lu, Zhao and Lin, Yu-Ru and Zhang, Qing and Chen, Mengwei (2016) Classifying Questions into Fine-grained categories using Topic Enriching. In: International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2016), 28-30 Jul 2016, Pittsburgh, United States of America. (In Press)
Tsai, Chun-Hua and Lin, Yu-Ru (2016) Tracing and Predicting Collaboration for Junior Scholars. In: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, 11 April 2016 - 15 April 2016, Montreal, Canada.
Cao, N and Lin, YR and Gotz, D (2016) UnTangle Map: Visual analysis of probabilistic multi-label data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 22 (2). 1149 - 1163. ISSN 1077-2626
Jin, L and Long, X and Zhang, K and Lin, YR and Joshi, J (2016) Characterizing users’ check-in activities using their scores in a location-based social network. Multimedia Systems, 22 (1). 87 - 98. ISSN 0942-4962
Parra, D and Trattner, C and Gómez, D and Hurtado, M and Wen, X and Lin, YR (2016) Twitter in academic events: A study of temporal usage, communication, sentimental and topical patterns in 16 Computer Science conferences. Computer Communications, 73. 301 - 314. ISSN 0140-3664
Cao, Nan and Shi, Conglei and Lin, Sabrina and Lu, Jie and Lin, Yu-Ru and Lin, Ching-Yung (2016) TargetVue: Visual Analysis of Anomalous User Behaviors in Online Communication Systems. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, 22 (1). 280 - 289. ISSN 1077-2626
Farzan, Rosta and Lu, Di and Lin, Yu-Ru (2016) What Happens Offline Stays Offline? Identifiers of the Sustainability of Hybrid Social Web Systems. In: Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext and Social Media. , 10-13 Jul 2016 , Halifax, Canada. (In Press)
Sahebi, Shaghayegh and Lin, Yu-Ru and Brusilovsky, Peter (2016) Tensor Factorization for Student Modeling and Performance Prediction in Unstructured Domain. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining. 502 - 506.
Zhang, Ke and Lin, Yu-Ru and Pelechrinis, Konstantinos (2016) EigenTransitions with Hypothesis Testing: The Anatomy of Urban Mobility. In: THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEB AND SOCIAL MEDIA (ICWSM-16), 17 May 2016 - 20 May 2016, Cologne, Germany.
Lin, Y.-R., Margolin, D., Lazer, D. (2015). Uncovering Social Semantics From Textual Traces: A Theory-Driven Approach and Evidence From Public Statements of U.S. Members of Congress. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) (doi:10.1002/asi.23540)
Toole, J., Lin, Y.-R., Muehlegger, E., Shoag, D., Gonzalez, M., Lazer, D. (2015). Tracking Employment Shocks Using Mobile Phone Data. Journal of the Royal Society Interface (J. R. Soc. Interface), 12(107) (doi:10.1098/rsif.2015.0185)
Cao, N., Lin, Y.-R., Gotz, D. (2015). UnTangle Map: Visual Analysis of Probabilistic Multi-Label Data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), PP(99)(doi:10.1109/TVCG.2015.2424878)
Lin, Y.-R., Margolin, D. (2014). The Ripple of Fear, Sympathy and Solidarity During the Boston Bombings. EPJ Data Science, 3(1), 31 (doi:10.1140/epjds/s13688-014-0031-z)
Lin, Y.-R., Keegan, B., Margolin, D., Lazer, D. (2014). Rising Tides or Rising Stars?: Dynamics of Shared Attention on Twitter during Media Events. PLoS ONE, 9(5), e94093 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094093)
Human and social dynamics; computational approaches for mining and visualizing large-scale, time-varying, heterogeneous, multi-relational, and semi-structured data.