Eric Gilbert
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social media
human-computer interaction
Eric Gilbert | |
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| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BS, PhD) |
| Known for | social computing social media human-computer interaction |
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| Thesis | Computing Tie Strength (2011) |
| Doctoral advisor | Karrie Karahalios |
| Website | eegilbert |
Eric Gilbert is an American computer scientist and the John Derby Evans Associate Professor in the University of Michigan School of Information,[1] with a courtesy appointment in CSE.[2] He is known for his work designing and analyzing social media.
Gilbert received a B.S. with highest distinction in mathematics and computer ccience from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. While in college, Gilbert worked as a software engineer on the influential social and learning computing system PLATO.[3] After completing his undergraduate work, he served in Teach For America as a math and computer science teacher at Paul Robeson High School in Chicago.[3] Gilbert obtained a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011.[4]
Career and research
Gilbert joined the School of Interactive Computing within the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing in 2011 as an assistant professor. There, he led the comp.social lab.[5] After receiving tenure in 2017 at Georgia Tech, Gilbert moved to the School of Information at the University of Michigan as the John Derby Evans Endowed Professor of Information in 2018.[6] He is also appointed within Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan.[7]
Gilbert has made foundational contributions to the fields of social computing and HCI. His research focuses on studying existing—as well as designing new—social media systems. According to Google Scholar, Gilbert's work has been cited over 14,000 times, and he has an h-index of 44.[8]
