Assistant Professor Austin Benson

Austin R. Benson

Assistant Professor
Computer Science
413B Bill and Melinda Gates Hall

Research Interests

My research develops computational frameworks for analyzing and understanding large-scale and complex datasets from the Web, social networks, biology, and other scientific domains. I usually approach problems with a combination of network science, matrix and tensor computations, and applied machine learning. 


My research is supported by the ARO and the NSF.

Teaching Interests

Selected Publications

  • Simplicial closure and higher-order link prediction.
    Austin R. Benson, Rediet Abebe, Michael T. Schaub, Ali Jadbabaie, and Jon Kleinberg.
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2018.
  • Found Graph Data and Planted Vertex Covers.
    Austin R. Benson and Jon Kleinberg.
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2018.

  • Sequences of Sets.
    Austin R. Benson, Ravi Kumar, and Andrew Tomkins.
    Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2018.

  • Higher-order clustering in networks.
    Hao Yin, Austin R. Benson, and Jure Leskovec.
    Physical Review E (PRE), 2018.

  • A Discrete Choice Model for Subset Selection.
    Austin R. Benson, Ravi Kumar, and Andrew Tomkins.
    Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2018.