After spending two years leading the development of productivity and collaborations tools for Data Science and AI at Facebook, I have left the company to build mlon and bring these kind of tools to the industry as a whole.

Prior to that, my work straddled engineering and research, my interests broadly covering both structural dynamics of networks and dynamic processes over network structures, with a fascination for rumors and memes.

From late 2012 to mid 2015, I was a research scientist on the Core Data Science team at Facebook. Prior to joining Facebook, I received my PhD in theoretical computer science from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, where I worked on formalizing the notion of social community, at the intersection between graph theory and sociology.

Select publications

Rumor Cascades
Adrien Friggeri, Lada A. Adamic, Dean Eckles and Justin Cheng
International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Ann Arbor, United States, June 2014.

The Anatomy of Large Facebook Cascades 
P. Alex Dow, Lada A. Adamic and Adrien Friggeri
International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Cambridge, United States, July 2013.

A Quantitative Theory of Social Cohesion 
Adrien Friggeri and Eric Fleury
Workshop on Information in Networks, New York, United States, September 2012.

Psychological Aspects of Social Communities 
Adrien Friggeri, Renaud Lambiotte, Michal Kosinski and Eric Fleury
IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2012.

Electronic Sensors for Assessing Interactions between Healthcare Workers and Patients under Airborne Precautions 
Jean-Christophe Lucet, Cédric Laouenan, Guillaume Chelius, Nicolas Veziris, Didier Lepelletier, Adrien Friggeri, Dominique Abiteboul, Elisabeth Bouvet, France Mentré and Eric Fleury
PLoS ONE, May 2012.

Triangles to Capture Social Cohesion 
Adrien Friggeri, Guillaume Chelius and Eric Fleury
IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), Cambridge, United States, October 2011.

A Real-World Spreading Experiment in the Blogosphere 
Adrien Friggeri, Jean-Philippe Cointet and Matthieu Latapy
Complex Systems, September 2011.