Lada Adamic

Lada Adamic is an American network scientist, who researches information dynamics in networks. She studies how network structure influences the flow of information, how information influences the evolution of networks, and crowdsourced knowledge sharing.

Adamic is Associate Professor in the School of Information and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan. During her sabbatical year she worked at Facebook with the Data Science team. Previously she worked in Hewlett-Packard's Information Dynamics Lab on research projects relating to network constructed from large data sets.

From 1990 Adamic attended Stuyvesant High School, one of the nine Specialized High Schools in New York City, where she was a member of Math Team, which is the additional course for those who are interested in more advanced problem solving techniques. She moved with her family in 1992 and attended Fairview High School, ranked in the top ten in the United States.

In 1993–1997 Adamic received her bachelor's degree in Physics, Engineering and Applied Science at California Institute of Technology and then got her PhD degree in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 2001. In 1994–1995 she was Undergraduate Research Assistant at Caltech working on designing an electrostatic solar wind concentrator for the Genesis mission. In 1996–1997 she worked on the project of materials deposition with pulsed laser ablation. While writing her PhD thesis named "Network Dynamics: The World Wide Web" at Stanford she also worked with Xerox PARC researchers and modeled growth and search processes of the Internet.

Adamic worked for four years in Hewlett Packard labs as a Research Scientist where she studied networks created from large data sets, such as studying medical literature for gene-disease connections and modelling search processes on real-world social networks.

In 2005 Adamic left HP Labs to become Professor at the University of Michigan. Adamic serves as Member of the Advisory Board of Collective Intellect. To further explore her interest in social networks, she took a sabbatical in 2013 to join Facebook's Data Scientist team. Adamic is an editor for Information Science of the Network Science Journal that publishes information about new methods of network analysis. Since April 2013, the journal publishes 3 issues per year. Adamic teaches an online course "Social Network Analysis" on Coursera.

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