Kathleen M. Carley
Institute for Software Research
Societal Computing Ph.D. Program
[email protected]
Office: TCS Hall 425
Tel: (412) 268-6016

Kathleen M. Carley is a professor in the School of Computer Science in the department - Institute for Software Research - at Carnegie Mellon University. She also has courtesy appointments at:

Dr. Kathleen M. Carley (Ph.D. Harvard; HD University of Zurich) is a computational social scientist.

She is the director of the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS), a university wide interdisciplinary center that brings together network analysis, computer science, and organization science and the director of the Center for Informed DEmocracy and Social cybersecurity (IDeaS), a university wide transdisciplinary center for disinformation, hate and extremism online. Kathleen M. Carley's research combines cognitive science, network science, computer science and social science to address complex organizational, social and cultural problems. Her specific research areas include dynamic network analysis, computational social and organization theory, network adaptation and evolution, social cybersecurity, and online behavior during times of upheaval (e.g., disasters and elections). She and her students have developed infrastructure tools for analyzing large scale dynamic networks, social media and various multi-agent simulation systems. Her work led to: 1) ORA, a statistical toolkit for analyzing and visualizing multi-dimensional dynamic and spatial networks; AutoMap, a text-mining system for extracting semantic networks from texts and then cross-classifying them using an organizational ontology into the underlying social, knowledge, resource and task networks and the commercial version known as NetMapper; 3) the Construct simulation system for exploring the impact of various social and technological interventions on the diffusion of information, beliefs, and activities at the individual or group level; and 4) BotHunter, HateHunter, and location identifier for social media data.

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Dr. Carley is the founding co-editor of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory which she now co-edits with Dr. Terrill Frantz. She has co-edited several books in the computational social science and network science areas and has over 400 refereed publications.

Vita - Updated February 2, 2023

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Kathleen M. Carley Talks and Research Videos

Societal Computing PhD program -- Research profile video

View my research on my SSRN Author page.

Teaching:
  • 17-801/17-685/19-640 Dynamic Network Analysis (Spring every year)
  • 17-810/17-621 Computational Modeling of Complex Socio-Technical Systems, Fall 2022
  • Independent Studies (intermittently)
National Academies Monographs:
  • Kathleen M. Carley (panel member), 2019, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. A Decadal Survey of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Research Agenda for Advancing Intelligence Analysis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. [DOI]
  • Kathleen M. Carley (panel member), 2016, From Maps to Models: Augmenting the Nation's Geospatial Intelligence Capabilities, National Research Council. The National Academies Press. Washington D.C. [DOI]
  • Kathleen M. Carley (panel member), 2014, Developing a 21st Century Global Library for Mathematics Research, National Research Council. The National Academies Press. Washington D.C. [DOI]
  • Kathleen M. Carley (panel member), 2013, Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis, National Research Council. The National Academies Press. Washington D.C. [DOI]
  • Kathleen M. Carley (panel member), 2013, Future U.S. Workforce for Geospatial Intelligence, National Research Council. The National Academies Press. Washington D.C. [DOI]
  • Kathleen M. Carley (panel member), 2008, Behavioral Modeling and Simulation, From Individuals to Societies, National Research Council. Greg L. Zacharias, Jean MacMillan and Susan B. Van Hemel, editors, The National Academies Press, Washington, DC. [DOI]
  • Kathleen M. Carley (panel member), 2006, Modeling Community Containment for Pandemic Influenza: A Letter Report, National Research Council. The National Academy Press. Washington, D.C. [DOI]
  • Kathleen M. Carley (panel member), 2006, Defense Modeling, Simulation and Analysis: Meeting the Challenge, National Research Council. The National Academy Press. Washington, D.C. [DOI]
  • Ronald Breiger, Kathleen M. Carley, and Philippa Pattison (Eds.). 2003. Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers. Committee on Human Factors, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. [DOI]
  • Kathleen M. Carley (panel member), 1998, Modeling Human and Organizational Behavior: Application to Military Simulations, Final Report, Richard W. Pew and Anne S. Mavavor, editors. National Research Council, National Academy Press. Washington D.C. [DOI]
  • Kathleen M. Carley (panel member), 1997, Representing Human Behavior in Military Simulations, Interim Report, Richard W. Pew and Anne S. Mavavor, editors. National Research Council, National Academy Press. Washington D.C. [DOI]

A complete list of publications is available at Vita - Updated May 25, 2022

Additional Publications and Project Information can be found CASOS Center Profile