Experience and Training in Teaching

Course instructor:

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, iSchool, Spring 2012
    • Information Networks (LIS 590), co-taught with Les Gasser
    • Social Aspects of Information Technology (LIS 202), co-taught with Les Gasser
  • Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Spring 2010:
    08-201 Introduction to Social Network Analysis, co-taught with Terrill Frantz
  • University Hamburg, Graduate School for Business, Economics and Social Science, Germany, Fall 2011:
    Information and Relation Extraction from Text Data and Analysis of
    Socio-Technical Networks     (short course, taught in English)
  • University of Applied Sciences, Mittweida, Germany, Summer 2008:
    Extraction of Relational Data from Texts and Computational Thinking
    (three-week course, taught in English)
  • University of Applied Sciences, Mittweida, Germany, Summer 2007:
    Extraction of Relational Data from Texts and Applications to Multi-level Data
    (three-week course, taught in English)

Instructor for workshops and tutorials: provide training at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, Network Analysis, Computational Thinking.

  • Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Comparative Analysis of Social Structure, Germany (February 7, 2011)
  • XXX International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy (June 30, 2010)
  • Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management, Cleveland, OH (April 17, 2010)
  • Department of National Defense, Centre for Security Science, Ottawa, Canada (July 07, 2009), with Terrill Frantz, KM Carley
  • International Center for the Study of Terrorism, Penn State University (July 15, 2009), with Mike Bigrigg, Luke Gerdes
  • General Online Research (GOR) Conference, University of Vienna, Austria (April 06, 2009)
  • XXIX International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, San Diego, CA (March 10/11, 2009)
  • General Online Research (GOR) Conference, University Hamburg, Germany (March 10, 2008)
  • World Congress on Social Simulation, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (July 15, 2008)
  • North American Associaton for Computational Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS) Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (July 07, 2007)
  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh (October 21, 2005)
  • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany (May 18, 2005), with Lothar Krempel
  • Network Text Analysis sessions (one day) at Annual CASOS Summer Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (2004 – 2011)

Guest Lecture

  • At Information Visualization (60-719) course, taught by Ben Fry and Golan Levin. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (04-10, 2007)

Training in Pedagogy and Teaching: