Eric Gilbert
Eric Gilbert is a researcher who builds and studies social media systems, and he co-authored VADER, a parsimonious rule-based model for sentiment analysis of social media text, in 2014. As of October 2026, he is John Derby Evans Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He studied mathematics and computer science at Illinois, then joined Georgia Tech in 2011 and led its comp.social lab before moving to Michigan in 2018. He received an ACM Distinguished Member honour in 2023. In 2026, a position paper he co-wrote on deepfake research and AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery received an Outstanding Position Paper Honorable Mention at ICML.
Timeline
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2001
A computer science degree
While at Illinois, he works as a software engineer on PLATO, the social and learning computing system. He earns a B.S. in mathematics and computer science there in 2001. He then teaches math and computer science at Paul Robeson High School in Chicago through Teach For America.
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2011–2017
Running the comp.social lab
He joins the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in 2011. There he leads the comp.social lab.
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2014
A sentiment model for social media
He co-authors VADER, a parsimonious rule-based model for sentiment analysis of social media text, published at the AAAI conference on weblogs and social media in 2014.
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2016
An NSF CAREER Award
He becomes one of the recipients of the National Science Foundation CAREER Awards in 2016.
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2018
A Michigan endowed professorship
He moves to the School of Information at the University of Michigan in 2018 as the John Derby Evans Endowed Professor of Information.
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2023
An ACM Distinguished Member
The Association for Computing Machinery names him a Distinguished Member in 2023 for influential contributions to the study and building of social computing systems.
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2026
A deepfake position paper
He co-writes a position paper with Qiwei Li, Wells Lucas Santo and Sarita Schoenebeck on deepfake research and AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery. The ICML 2026 awards name the paper an Outstanding Position Paper Honorable Mention.
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As of October 2026
Associate professor at Michigan
He is John Derby Evans Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, with a research focus on building and studying social media systems.
Sources and credits
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- Eric Gilbert - Wikipedia
- Eric Gilbert | Siebel School of Computing and Data Science | Illinois
- International Computing Society Recognizes 2023 Distinguished Members for Significant Achievements
- ICML 2026 Awards
- ICML Oral Position: AI/ML Deepfake Research is Misaligned with AI Generated Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery (AIG-NCII)
- Eric Gilbert – CSMR