Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia

Assistant Professor

BIO

Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia is an assistant professor at the College of Information at the University of Maryland College Park, where he leads the Computational Sociodynamics Laboratory. He is interested in problems originating from the interplay between people and computing systems, in the determinants of information quality in cyberspace, and in how information propagates across social networks, with application to the integrity of information in cyberspace and the trustworthiness and reliability of social computing systems.

Giovanni Luca was the recipient in 2013 of a mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation for postdoctoral training at the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at Indiana University Bloomington. He later joined the Indiana University Network Science Institute as an assistant research scientist until 2018. Prior to his postdoc, he was an analyst for the Wikimedia Foundation and a research associate at the Professorship of Computational Social Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Lugano, Switzerland and a Laurea degree in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His work has been covered in major news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Wired, MIT Technology Review, NPR, and CBS News, to cite a few.