JAMES CAVERLEE

Assistant Professor

Email: caverlee@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-0537
Office: HRBB 403
http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/caverlee

Ph.D., Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007
M.S., Computer Science, Stanford University, 2001
M.S., Engineering-Economic Systems & Operations Research, Stanford University, 2000
B.A., Economics magna cum laude, Duke University, 1996

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Web-scale information management, distributed data-intensive systems, information retrieval, databases, and social computing

AWARDS

Montague-CTE (Center for Teaching Excellence) Scholar for excellence in undergraduate teaching, 2011-2012

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award (DARPA YFA), 2010/dt>

Google Research Award, 2009

Department of Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Faculty Teaching Award, 2009

EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2007-present

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

K. Lee, J. Caverlee, and S. Webb, "Uncovering Social Spammers: Social Honeypots + Machine Learning," 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, July 2010.

C-F. Hsu, E. Khabiri, and J. Caverlee, “Ranking Comments on the Social Web,” IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), August 2009.

J. Caverlee, S. Webb, L. Liu, and W. Rouse, “A Parameterized Approach to Spam-Resilient Link Analysis of the Web,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), accepted for publication, 2009.

S. Kashoob, J. Caverlee, and Y. Ding, “A Categorical Model for Discovering Latent Structure in Social Annotations,” AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), May 2009.

J. Caverlee, L. Liu, and S. Webb, “SocialTrust: Tamper-Resilient Trust Establishment in Online Communities,” ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), June 2008.