Assistant Professor, Information Systems and Web Science
Lally School of Management
Lydia Manikonda is an Assistant Professor in the Lally School of Management who is also affiliated with the AIRC at RPI.Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing on publicly available data from social media platforms, discussion forums, news articles, and other web sources. She develops models that capture complex patterns of online user behavior, communication, and decision-making, with a focus on how these dynamics translate into offline settings. Her work emphasizes building AI systems that can both learn and reason, while accounting for critical human factors to address real-world problems in the areas of business (crowdfunding), public health (maternal health, addictions) and technology (generative AI, user privacy and cybersecurity). So far, her research work has received several media mentions, a best SPC and reviewer awards at AAAI ICWSM 2025 and 2016 respectively and an outstanding demonstration award at AAAI ICAPS 2014. Lydia received her PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 2019. More information about her research and publications can be found here: website (https://lmanikon.github.io/) or Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xB5PgNgAAAAJ)