Teaching Experience

  • Course instructor: developed syllabi and overall course structure, administered grades:
    • Spring 2010: Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science:
      08-201 Introduction to Social Network Analysis
      co-taught with Kathleen M. Carley and Terrill Frantz
    • 2008, University of Applied Sciences, Mittweida, Germany:
      Extraction of Relational Data from Texts and Computational Thinking.
      (three-week summer course, taught in English)
    • 2007, University of Applied Sciences, Mittweida, Germany:
      Extraction of Relational Data from Texts and Applications on Multi-level Data.. (three-week summer course, taught in English)
  • Workshop instructor: Tutorials at the intersection of Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Social Network Analysis, Computational Thinking. Designed syllabi, prepared teaching material, gave lectures and hands-on training for/ at:
    • Department of National Defense, Centre for Security Science, Ottawa, Canada (July 07, 2009)
    • International Center for the Study of Terrorism, Penn State University
      (July 15, 2009)
    • General Online Research (GOR) Conference, University of Vienna, Austria (April 06, 2009)
    • XXIX International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, San Diego, CA
      (March 10/11, 2009)
    • General Online Research (GOR) Conference, University Hamburg, Germany (March 10, 2008)
    • World Congress on Social Simulation, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (July 15, 2008)
    • North American Assoc. for Computational Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS) Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (July 07, 2007)
    • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh (October 21, 2005)
    • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany
      (May 18, 2005), with Dr. L. Krempel
    • Network Text Analysis sessions (one day) at Annual CASOS Summer Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (2004 – 2009)
  • Guest Lecture:
    • at course 60-719 (ETB Studio): Information Visualization, taught by Ben Fry and Golan Levin. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (04-10, 2007)

very basic updates...

I am co-teaching an interdisciplinary, undergrad course on Social Networks @ CMU in Spring '10, poster

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