Kathleen Mary Carley | |
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| Born | 1956 |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (1984) MIT (1978) |
| Known for | Dynamic network analysis |
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| Fields | Social network analysis Computational sociology Telecommunication policy Biosecurity |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Doctoral advisor | Harrison White |
Kathleen M. Carley is an American computational social scientist specializing indynamic network analysis.[1] She is a professor in theSchool of Computer Science in the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Software Research atCarnegie Mellon University and also holds appointments in theTepper School of Business, theHeinz College, the Department ofEngineering and Public Policy, and the Department ofSocial and Decision Sciences.[2]
Kathleen Carley was born inPueblo, Colorado in 1956.[3] At High School her interest in social modeling was inspired byIsaac Asimov'sFoundation series.Artificial intelligence was not a career path at that time and she was dissuaded from studying Mathematics because ofgender stereotyping.[4]Instead she studied for anS.B. ineconomics and an S.B. inpolitical science from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. She received her Ph.D. insociology fromHarvard University in 1984. Her Ph.D. advisor wasHarrison White and her thesis was entitledConsensus Construction.[2]
On leaving Harvard in 1984, Carley secured a position as assistant professor of Sociology and Information Systems atCarnegie Mellon University where she remains based. In 1990 she became associate professor of Sociology and Organizations, in 1998 Professor of Sociology, Organizations and IT, and in 2002 attained her current role as Professor of Computation, Organization and Society. Since 1998 she has also held appointments in other CMU schools and departments; the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Heinz College, Tepper School of Business and Department of Engineering and Public Policy.[2]
Carley's research combinescognitive science,sociology andcomputer science to address complex social and organizational problems. Methodologically she applies network science, machine learning, natural language processing, and agent based modeling to high-dimensional, large, and dynamic data. Her most notable research contribution was the establishment ofdynamic network analysis (DNA) and the establishment of social cybersecurity. She has also contributed to research on computational social and organization theory,[citation needed] 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, and dynamic network methods.[citation needed]
She is the director of the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems, a university-wide interdisciplinary center that brings togethernetwork science,computer science, andorganizational studies and is the director of the center for Informed Democracy and Social-cybersecurity (IDeaS) at CMU.[citation needed]
Carley is the founding co-editor and co-editor-in-chief of the journalComputational and Mathematical Organization Theory.[5] She has co-edited several books in the computational organizations and dynamic network area.[citation needed]
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