I am an associate professor at Cornell Tech where I am the founder of the Connective Media hub, and lead the Social Technologies research group. I sometimes consult or even co-found startups. Previously, I was an assistant professor at Rutgers SC&I, led a research team at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, and got a PhD from Stanford. Oh, and played professional basketball.
My lab designs, builds, and studies systems that support social interactions in online and physical spaces. Our sponsors include AOL, Google, Facebook and the National Science Foundation.
I am giving an invited talk at WSDM 2016 about my research and startup experiences around events in social media.
Two upcoming CHI 2016 papers from my lab are available here -- including one best paper honorable mention.
My lab is hiring new PhD students this year. To work with us, you can apply to the Cornell IS or CS PhD programs.
AOL announces gift to start Connected Experiences (Conn.X) Laboratory at Jacobs Institute and Cornell Tech, co-founded by me.
Mor Naaman is an associate professor of Information Science at the Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech, where he is the founder of the Connective Media hub, leads a research group focused on social technologies, and directs the AOL Connected Experiences laboratory.
His research group designs, builds, and studies systems that support social interactions in online and physical spaces. Mor applies multidisciplinary methods to 1) gain a better understanding of people and their use of social tech; 2) extract insights about people, technology and society from social media and other sources of social data, and 3) develop new social technologies as well as novel tools to make social data more accessible and usable in various settings.
Previously, Mor was on the faculty at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, led a research team at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Stanford University InfoLab, and played professional basketball for Hapoel Tel Aviv. He is a recipient of a NSF Early Faculty CAREER Award, research awards and grants from numerous corporations including AOL and Google, and multiple best paper awards.
If I am speaking at your event, additional high-res headshots are available: 1 2 (I'll like you better if you pick the polka dot one).
Finding and Assessing Social Media Information Sources in the Context of Journalism
|CHI 2012Unfolding the Event Landscape on Twitter: Classification and Exploration of User Categories
|CSCW 2012The Impact of Network Structure on Breaking Ties in Online Social Networks: Unfollowing on Twitter
|CHI 2011Social multimedia: highlighting opportunities for search and mining of multimedia data in social media applications
|MTAPPAnalysis of Participation in an Online Photo-Sharing Community: A Multidimensional Perspective
|JASISTMotivational, Structural and Tenure Factors that Impact Online Community Photo Sharing
|ICWSM 2009Less Talk, More Rock: Automated Organization of Community-Contributed Collections of Concert Videos
|WWW 2009How Flickr Helps us Make Sense of the World: Context and Content in Community-Contributed Media Collections.
|ACM Multimedia 2007World Explorer: Visualizing Aggregate Data from Unstructured Text in Geo-Referenced Collections
|JCDL 2007(Invited column) Eyes on the World
|IEEE Computer MagazineAssigning Textual Names to Sets of Geographic Coordinates
|Journal of Computers, Environment, and Urban SystemsAdventures in Space and Time: Browsing Personal Collections of Geo-Referenced Digital Photographs
|Stanford Technical ReportAutomatic Organization for Digital Photographs with Geographic Coordinates
|JCDL 2004From Where to What: Metadata Sharing for Digital Photographs with Geographic Coordinates
|COOPIS 2003