Yana Volkovich

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I'm co-chair (with Tatiana Lando and Lidia Pivovarova) of Young Scientist Conference within RuSSIR Summer School 2012, Yaroslavl, Russia

I'm an invited speaker at Spectral Properties of Complex Networks Workshop, Trento, Italy

bio

2009-present: Research scientist at Fundacio Barcelona Media, Spain
2005-2009: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, the Netherlands
1999-2004: Dipl. Eng. in Mathematics and Computer, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

research interests:
Social Mining
Algorithms and Models for Web Graphs
Probabilistic Analysis of Complex Networks

publications

Google scholar profile;DBLP

in chronological order

P. Aragon, A. Kaltenbrunner, D. Laniado, and Y. Volkovich; Biographical Social Networks on Wikipedia - A cross-cultural study of links that made history.; submitted

Y. Volkovich, S. Scellato, D. Laniado, C. Mascolo and A. Kaltenbrunner; The length of bridge ties: structural and geographic properties of online social interactions.; in Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM2012)

P. Aragon, J. Gould, A. Kaltenbrunner, K. Kappler, D. Laniado, R. Ruiz de Querol, C. Ullod and Y. Volkovich; Bridging the Gap: A Reflection on an Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Media Research.; in Web Science track, 21th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2012)

P. Aragón, J. Gould, A. Kalterbrunner, K. Kappler, D. Laniado, and Y. Volkovich; Real Counter Power or a Digital Bubble? A Case Study of the 15O-Movement.; abstract accepted at Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 2012.

R Ruiz de Querol, K Kappler, A Kaltenbrunner, Y Volkovich, D Laniado; Social Innovation Meets Social Media: A Framework Proposal.; in Workshop on Social Innovation and Social Media, in Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM2011).

A. Kaltenbrunner, G. Gonzalez, R. Ruiz De Querol, and Y. Volkovich; Comparative analysis of articulated and behavioural social networks in a social news sharing website.;in New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 2011

D. Laniado, R. Tasso, Y. Volkovich, and A. Kaltenbrunner; When the Wikipedians Talk: Network and Tree Structure of Wikipedia Discussion Pages.; in Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM2011)

Y. Volkovich and A. Kaltenbrunner; Evaluation of Valuable User Generated Content on Social News Web Sites.;in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2011)

Y. Volkovich, and N. Litvak; Asymptotic analysis for personalized Web search; in Adv. Appl. Prob 42.2, 2010

N. Litvak, W. R. W. Scheinhardt, Y. Volkovich, and B. Zwart; Characterization of tail dependence for in-degree and PageRank; in the 6th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph (WAW2009);

Y. Volkovich, N. Litvak, and B. Zwart; Extremal dependencies and rank correlations in power law networks; in the 1st International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (Complex2009);

Y. Volkovich, N. Litvak, and D. Donato; Determining factors behind the PageRank log-log plot; in the 5th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph (WAW2007);

N. Litvak, W. R. W. Scheinhardt, and Y. Volkovich;In-Degree and PageRank: Why do they follow similar power laws?; in Internet Math., Vol 4(2--3);

N. Litvak, W.R.W. Scheinhardt, and Y. Volkovich;Probabilistic relation between In-Degree and PageRank; in the 4th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph (WAW2006);

thesis: Stochastic analysis of Web page ranking; University of Twente,2009

previous activites

Member of the Program Committee for the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2012)

Co-chair (with Alejandro Jaimes and Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo! Research)) of the First International Workshop on Social Media Engagement (SoME 2011), in conjunction with WWW2011 (workshop report).

Member of the Organizing Committee for the First International Workshop on Social Innovation and Social Media (SISoM 2011), in conjunction with ICWSM2011 (manifesto).

Me and Vladimir Gorovoy (Yandex) were giving "An Introduction to Social Mining" course at RuSSIR/EDBT Summer School 2011 (slides; practical task).

Member of the Program Committee for Analysis of Complex Networks workshop (ACNE 2010)

Member of the Organizing Committee for the 6th Workshop On Algorithms And Models For The Web-Graph (WAW 2009)

review activities

Internet Mathematics, Information Retrieval, Stochastic Processes and their Applications

other links

Spanish language school in Malaga, founded by friends