bio

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.