Michael Conover [photo]
Ph.D. Student, Complex Systems Analysis


Indiana University School of Informatics
Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research

From Data, Insight.

Research Interests	Data Mining, Text & Network Analysis Meme Propagation in Web-Based Social Networks Biomedical Literature Mining Probabilistic Models of Burstiness Principled Visual Analytics Bio-Inspired Computing Digital Stigmergy The Wisdom of Crowds Swarming Behavior
Publications	Where Are the Academic Jobs? Interactive Exploration of Job Advertisements in Geospatial and Topical Space Angela Zoss, Michael Conover, Katy Börner.  Advances in Social Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 6007 (2010). Advertainment: QR Codes & Japanese Mobile Phone Culture Michael Conover. Communications of the ACM. October, 2009: 9.
Grants	NSF East Asia & Pacific Summer Institute 2009 Knowledge Extraction from Massively-Collaborative Brainstorming Sessions, IBM Tokyo Research Lab NSF East Asia & Pacific Summer Institute 2008 Improved Techniques for Massively-Collaborative Information Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Curiosities	Nudibranchs Cymatics Double Slit Experiment Beatbox Kitchen Patterns in Nature Snow Crystals
Network Neighborhood	Networks & Agents Network Complex Adaptive Systems & Computational Intelligence Apophenia