Professor Dr. Eric Gilbert

Biography

Eric Gilbert is a Professor at the School of Information at the University of Michigan and has a courtesy appointment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the College of Engineering. He previously served on the faculty at Georgia Tech and runs the Computational Social Lab at Michigan. Gilbert is a sociotechnologist whose research focuses on building and studying social computing systems. His work has received funding from notable organizations such as the Social Science Research Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, and various tech companies including Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. He has been recognized with multiple paper awards and is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellowship, among others. Gilbert is a Distinguished Member of the ACM and has held various leadership roles, including Program Chair for conferences in his field. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was also a distinguished alumni.

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