He holds a Laurea in Physics from the University of Rome and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Menczer has been the recipient of Fulbright, Rotary Foundation, and NATO fellowships, and a Career Award from the National Science Foundation. He is the Associate Director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research in the IU School of Informatics, a Fellow-at-large of the Santa Fe Institute, and a Lagrange Senior Fellow at the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation in Torino, Italy. His research is supported by the NSF and focuses on Web, text, and data mining, social Web applications, distributed and intelligent Web information systems, and modeling of complex information networks.