Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:00:00 +0000
<p>This week I spoke with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/elham">Elham Shaabani</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauloshakarian">Paulo Shakarian</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/pauloshakasu">@PauloShakASU</a>) about their recent paper <a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2788618">Early Identification of Violent Criminal Gang Members</a> (also available on<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03965">arXiv</a>). In this paper, they use social network analysis techniques and machine learning to provide early detection of known criminal offenders who are in a high risk group for committing violent crimes in the future. Their techniques outperform existing techniques used by the police. Elham and Paulo are part of the <a href="https://lab.engineering.asu.edu/cysis/">Cyber-Socio Intelligent Systems (CySIS) Lab</a>.</p>
