Chen (CiCi) Ling

Cici Ling is an assistant professor at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research spans security, privacy, psychology, and computational social science, with a particular focus on social media and niche communities, aiming to promote accessibility and inclusivity in digital applications. Her work has been published in top-tier journals and conferences, including IEEE S&P, USENIX, ACM CSCW, and AAAI ICWSM, and has been featured in Wired, New Scientist, and The Washington Post.

Cici is the recipient of the 2023 EECS Rising Star award, the 2022 Meta PhD Fellowship in Security and Privacy, and a Hariri Student Fellowship at Boston University. She was also a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute, supported by a fellowship.

• Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Boston University, 2024
• M.S. in Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2019
• B.A. in Art History at Tsinghua University, 2015

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence @Luddy
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Complex Networks and Systems
• Computational Social Science
• Computer Mediated Communication and Social Media
• Computing, Culture, and Society
• Data Science
• Data Science @Luddy
• Data Science for Applications
• Data Security and Privacy
• Data Visualization
• Digital Heritage
• Ethics and Values in Digital Society
• Gender and Information Technologies
• HCI@Luddy
• Health@Luddy
• Human Computer Interaction
• Human Computer Interaction and Design
• Information Behavior
• Information Policy
• Intellectual Freedom and information/data ethics
• Media Studies
• Network Science
• Online communities
• Organizational Informatics
• Privacy
• Proactive Health
• Proactive Health Informatics
• Security and Privacy
• Security and Privacy@Luddy
• Security Informatics
• Social and Ethical Aspects of Data Science
• Social Informatics
• Social Media
• Social Theory of Information
• Trolling
• Virtual Heritage
• Web Science