Emilio Ferrara

Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California
Principal Scientist, USC Information Sciences Institute

AI safety & auditing · social media manipulation · bots and influence operations · computational social science · network science

Main resources

Personal website

Research overview, publications, group, and contact.

emilio.ferrara.name

Full publication record and citations.

scholar.google.com

Code, datasets, and project repositories.

github.com/emilioferrara

Research indexes

Recent work on AI

Curated index of 2024–2026 research on AI safety and deceptive model behavior, LLM auditing and bias, agentic systems, generative-AI risk, and evaluation — each with a plain-language note and citation-ready BibTeX.

emilioferrara.github.io/ai-research

Talk companions

From Bots to Agents — references & BibTeX

Companion page for the SICSS-Singapore 2026 closing lecture: every paper cited in the talk, with citation-ready BibTeX and a note on what to cite each for.

emilioferrara.github.io/bots2agents