Yu-Ru Lin is currently a Ph.D. student in
Computer Science
at the Arizona State
University. She is a
research
assistant under Professor Hari
Sundaram and Professor Aisling Kelliher at the Arts
Media and
Engineering Program, an interdisciplinary collaborative
venture
between
the Fulton School
and the Herberger College of
the Arts. She
received her bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science
from
National Chiao Tung
University,
Hsinchu, Taiwan in 2001.
She is interested in analysis and visualization of social networks.
Her current research includes problems relating to dynamic multi-relational social network analysis – in particular, community dynamics, social information summarization and representation. Her research focuses on extracting human communities that collaborate around certain topics or media sharing activities. She has proposed techniques for analyzing community structures and evolutions in online social networks, as well as time-varying social relational data.