About
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)
- Ph.D. Computer Science, 2019 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
- M.S. Computer Science and Engineering, 2012 International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H), India
- B.Tech (Hons) Computer Science and Engineering, 2009 International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H), India
Research
Information Systems, Modeling Online User Interactions, Privacy, Ethics and Intelligent Systems
Teaching
MGMT 4190/6560 01: Introduction to Machine Learning Applications
MGMT 4190/6560 02 Introduction to Machine Learning Applications
Publications
The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Lydia Manikonda has 26 indexed publications in the subjects of Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science.