{{Short description|American computer scientist}} {{Use mdy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=May 2022}} {{Use list-defined references|date=May 2022}} '''Kristina Lerman''' (born 1967){{r|born}} is an American [[network science|network scientist]] whose research concerns the spread of information on [[social network]]s, and [[Fairness (machine learning)|fairness in machine learning]]. She is a research professor at the [[University of Southern California]], in the Computer Science Department of the [[USC Viterbi School of Engineering]], and a principal scientist in the [[Information Sciences Institute]].{{r|facdir}}
==Education and career== Lerman majored in physics at [[Princeton University]], graduating in 1989. She completed a Ph.D. in physics at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]], in 1995, under the joint supervision of Guenter Ahlers and David Cannell.{{r|cv}}
After working as a systems programmer for [[Quarterdeck Office Systems]] from 1996 to 1998, she joined USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) as a researcher in 1998. She added an affiliation as research faculty with USC's Computer Science Department in 2004. She has been principal scientist at ISI since 2018, and research professor at USC since 2020.{{r|cv}}
==Recognition== Lerman was named a Fellow of the [[Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence]] in 2022.{{r|aaai|aaai2}}
==References== <references>
<ref name=aaai>{{citation|url=https://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php|title=Elected fellows|publisher=Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence|access-date=2022-06-16}}</ref>
<ref name=aaai2>{{citation|url=https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2022/04/kristina-lerman-elected-an-aaai-fellow/|title=Kristina Lerman Elected an AAAI Fellow: She is the third researcher at USC Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute to receive the prestigious honor|first=Una|last=Stanisavljevic|date=April 14, 2022|publisher=USC Viterbi School of Engineering|access-date=2022-06-16}}</ref>
<ref name=born>Birth year from [https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98102504.html Library of Congress catalog record], retrieved 2022-06-16</ref>
<ref name=cv>{{citation|url=https://www.isi.edu/people/lerman/curriculum_vitae|title=Curriculum vitae|publisher=Information Sciences Institute|access-date=2022-06-16}}</ref>
<ref name=facdir>{{citation|url=https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Lerman/Kristina|title=Kristina Lerman|work=Viterbi Faculty Directory|publisher=USC Viterbi School of Engineering|access-date=2022-06-16}}</ref>
</references>
==External links== *[http://www.isi.edu/~lerman/ Home page] *{{Google Scholar id|Cz6vH68AAAAJ}}
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