Posts by Mitul Tiwari

Online social networks have become important tools for networking, communication, sharing, and discovery. A considerable challenge these networks face is the fact that an online social network is partially observed: two individuals might know each other, but may not have established a connection on the site. Therefore, link prediction and recommendations are...

Search plays an important role in online social networks such as LinkedIn, as it provides an essential mechanism for discovering members and content on the network. One way to improve the member's search experience and to help them find relevant results is to show related search recommendations: We recently wrote a paper about Metaphor, the related search...

One of our stellar interns last summer, Azarias Reda from the University of Michigan, explored how users from emerging economies are interacting with social networking. He analyzed LinkedIn's unique data set, which includes access to demographic, activity, career, and educational information for 150+ million members, representing professionals from every country...