Kyosuke Tanaka

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Kyosuke (pronounced kyo-s-kay) studies social and communication networks to better understand why and how people perceive, activate, and leverage their social contacts to accomplish their goals. Mainly, he is interested in providing scientific evidence for the best practices of networking and communication. For example, who would you ask for advice about jobs if you just lost your job? Current scientific evidence shows that counterintuitively, your "weak" connections (e.g., someone whom you just met at a bar) tend to bring useful information on new jobs than your family members or close friends. His research goal is to provide this kind of insights into the world.

1. Examining the role of self-disclosure via profiles in network formation on an online community
2. Creating an R package of a network sampling method
3. Investigating routing strategies and network structure in an information routing task
4. Examining how and why people misperceive and miss communication links in communication networks
5. Investigating package ecosystems in programming langugage communities
6. Indetifying the factors that explain "who bullies whom" in school

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

Using data-driven computer simulations, we study the effect of networking strategies on efficiency in communication networks. We found there is a clear trade-off between the studied networking strategies and efficiency.

Report

In this paper, we assess the impact of social media on social and economic development, using an analytical framework that draws on social networks and social learning.

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