Scholar
Patrick Gerard
Google Scholar ID: M02NacMAAAAJ
University of Southern California
Citations & Impact
Citations
76
H-index
4
i10-index
2
Publications
7
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- October 2025: Interactive Dashboard! 🌐 Watch narratives flow across X, TikTok, Telegram, and Truth Social in real-time during the 2024 US election.
- October 2025: New Paper! 📝 Cross-Platform Narrative Prediction: Leveraging Platform-Invariant Discourse Networks.
- July 2025: Meta CSS Talk 🎤 Discussed the challenges of modeling information diffusion in fragmented digital ecosystems and introduced a novel methodology that outperforms traditional approaches while requiring substantially less data.
- June 2025: DETOX @ ICWSM 2025 🎉 Introduced a new modeling framework for identifying narrative enclaves and predicting cross-platform narrative spread, aimed at proactively detecting and disrupting harmful content flows across digital ecosystems.
- June 2025: Stanford Security Group Talk 🎤 Discussed the challenges of modeling information diffusion in fragmented digital ecosystems and introduced a novel methodology that outperforms traditional approaches while requiring substantially less data.
- May 2025: New Paper! 📝 Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems.
- March 2025: ICWSM Paper Accepted 🎉 Fear and Loathing on the Frontline: Decoding the Language of Othering by Russia-Ukraine War Bloggers.
- January 2025: ICWSM Paper Accepted 🎉 Modeling Information Narrative Evolution on Telegram During the Russia-Ukraine War.
- September 2024: Stanford ESRG Talk 🎤 Gave a talk on narrative evolution and othering frameworks for LLM-guided community analysis.
- June 2024: Interview with CNBC 🎙️ Featured for my work analyzing Truth Social and the rise of fringe platforms.
- March 2023: Dataset Paper Accepted at ICWSM 🎉 Truth Social Dataset.
- March 2022: Paper Accepted at CIKM 🎉 Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Pandemic Forecasting.
Research Experience
- Working at USC-ISI.
Education
- PhD student under Kristina Lerman and Emilio Ferrara.
Background
- PhD student, working on making things make sense.
Miscellany
- Based in Los Angeles.