Full Courses

Developed syllabi, course structure and tests, administered grades:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, iSchool

• Advanced Topics in Machine Learning and Social Computing (newly developed): Fall 2018, Spring 2019
• Network Analysis (newly developed): Fall 2012-2016, Spring 2014-2015, 2017-2020 (more)
• Social Computing (newly developed): Fall 2012-2013, Spring 2016 (more)
• Research Design (redesigned): Fall 2017-2018
• Digital Humanities (redesigned): Spring 2013-2014 (more)
• Information Networks: Spring 2012-2013 (more)
• Social Aspects of Information Technologies: Spring 2012
• Doctoral Proseminar: Fall 2017, 2019, Spring 2018, 2020

Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science:

• Introduction to Social Network Analysis, Spring 2010

Short Courses

Developed syllabi and course structure, administered grades (in English):

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• “Network Analysis” for “Information Science and Engineering Summer Program” organized by “Global Education and Training” at UIUC, 2-week course, Summer 2017, Summer 2018

University of Hamburg, Germany, Graduate School for Business, Economics and Social Science

• Information and Relation Extraction from Text Data and Network Analysis (September 2011)

Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, Germany

• Extraction of Relational Data from Texts and Computational Thinking (Summer 2008)
• Extraction of Relational Data from Texts & Applications to Multi-Level Data (Summer 2007)

Tutorials and Workshops

Developed interdisciplinary training module (incl. syllabi and teaching material) on Network Analysis, Natural Language Processing and Computational Thinking, delivered hands-on training and lectures:

• "Getting Started in Digital Humanities" workshop, University of Illinois at Chicago (2020)
• COINS Conference, Rome, Italy (June 2016)
• Academy of Management (AOM), Vancouver, BC, Canada (August 2015)
• University of Bremen, Germany (June 19, 2015)
• Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (2015)
• University Mainz, Germany (November 25-26, 2014)
• HASTAC, Lima, Peru (Apr 2014)
• Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia (July 2015; June 27, 2014; May 19, 2013)
• International Sunbelt Social Network Conference (Newport Beach, CA, April, 2016; Brighton, UK, June 23, 2015; St. Pete Beach, FL, Feb 18, 2014; Riva del Garda, Italy, June 30, 2010; San Diego, CA, March 10/11, 2009)
• Daegu International Social Network Conference (DISC), South Korea (Dec 14, 2013; Dec 2014)
• International Research Methods Workshop, Flensburg, Germany & University of Southern Denmark (SDU) (Sept 30-Oct 2, 2013; Oct 1-2, 2012)
• POSTECH, South Korea (Dec 15, 2013)
• NATO (Foreign Area Specialists – Operational Level), Hamburg, Germany (2013)
• University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany (May 10-11, 2012)
• IT Defense Conference, Munich, Germany (roundtable, Feb 2012)
• Columbia University, School of Nursing, NY (2011)
• Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Comparative Analysis of Social Structure, Germany (February 7, 2011)
• Network Text Analysis sessions (one day) at Annual CASOS Summer Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (2004 – 2011)
• Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management, Cleveland, OH (April 17, 2010)
• Department of National Defense, Centre for Security Science, Ottawa, Canada (July 07, 2009), with Terrill Frantz, KM Carley
• International Center for the Study of Terrorism, Penn State University (July 15, 2009), with Mike Bigrigg, Luke Gerdes
• General Online Research (GOR) Conference: University of Vienna, Austria (April 06, 2009), University Hamburg, Germany (March 10, 2008)
• World Congress on Social Simulation, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (July 15, 2008)
• North American Associaton 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 Lothar Krempel

Other tutorials and workshops:

• "Hands-on advanced machine learning for information extraction from tweets tasks, data, and open source tools", with Shubhanshu Mishra, at:
  • Web Conference (WWW) (2021)
  • International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) (2020)
  • International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) (2020)
  • ACM Hypertext (2019)
• "Hands-on tutorial on analyzing social network data in Jupyter Python: The essentials, signed networks, and network optimization", with Samin Aref and Rezvaneh Rezapour, at Web Conference (WWW) (2021)
• Best Practices for Grant Proposal Development, workshop at Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) (held online) (2020)