The 2024 Election Integrity initiative by the USC HUMANS Lab is led by Prof. Emilio Ferrara.
Our labs are housed at the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science and at the USC Information Sciences Institute, a unit of the at USC Viterbi.
Our mission is to protect democratic processes by monitoring and analyzing online media to identify and combat malicious interference.
Through cutting-edge research and advanced technological solutions, we strive to ensure the integrity of elections and public discourse.
Meet our team
Emilio Ferrara
Principal Scientist
Luca Luceri
Lead Scientist
Charles (Duke) Bickham
CS Ph.D. Researcher
Eun Cheol Choi
Communications Ph.D. Researcher
Gabriela Pinto
CS Ph.D. Researcher
Priyanka Dey
CS Ph.D. Researcher
Leonardo Blas
CS Ph.D. Researcher
Siyi Zhou
Communications Ph.D. Researcher
Jinyi Ye
CS Ph.D Researcher
Ashwin Balasubramanian
CS M.S. Researcher
Website Developer
Kashish Atit Shah
DS M.S Researcher
Vishal Chintham Reddy
CS M.S Researcher
Tanishq Salkar
DS M.S. Researcher
Gokulraj Varatharajan
CS M.S Researcher
Srivarshan Selvaraj
CS M.S Researcher
Sneha Chawan
DS M.S Researcher
Jinhu Qi
M.S Researcher
Isabel Epistelomogi
CSBA B.S. Researcher
Website Content Curator
Grace Li
CSBA B.S. Researcher
Richard Peng
CS & Math B.S. Researcher
Saborni Kundu
C.S BS Researcher
Vito Zou
B.S Researcher
The 2024 Election Integrity Initiative 