He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 2011 after finishing a CS Ph.D. at Illinois. Dr. Gilbert leads the *comp.social* lab, a research group that focuses on building and studying social media (http://comp.social.gatech.edu). His work is supported by grants from Yahoo!, Google, the NSF and DARPA. Dr. Gilbert has also founded several social media sites reaching nearly a million people, and his work has received three best paper awards and two nominations from ACM's SIGCHI. His research has recently been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, MIT's Technology Review and on CNN and NPR. One of his favorite activities in life is drinking coffee while hanging out on the internet.See other events that are part of HCI Seminar Series 2012/2013See other events happening in December 2012