Eric Gilbert

Eric Gilbert is the John Derby Evans Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Before coming to Michigan, he led the comp.social lab at Georgia Tech. Dr. Gilbert is a sociotechnologist with a research focus on building and studying social media systems. His work has been supported by grants from Facebook, Samsung, Yahoo!, Google, NSF, ARL, and DARPA, and covered by outlets including Wired, NPR, and The New York Times.