Dr. Rachel Krohn believes in using Computer Science to solve interesting, challenging, and interdisciplinary problems. As a doctoral student, she studied the creation and dynamics of online content, including memes. Dr. Krohn is heavily involved with the International Collegiate Programming Contest; after competing as a student, she has since served as a judge, problem writer, and volunteer. In her spare time, Dr. Krohn enjoys reading, cross-stitch, and sewing.
Academic Degrees
- PhD Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2021
- MS Computational Sciences and Robotics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 2016
- BS Computer Science, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 2015
- BS Mechanical Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 2015
Teaching Interests
- Algorithms
- Data structures
- Introductory Computer Science and programming
- Computational social science
Research Interests
- Computational social science, including online information diffusion and dynamics
Publications & Presentations
- Trenton Ford, Rachel Krohn and Tim Weninger. Competition Dynamics in the Meme Ecosystem. ACM Transactions on Social Computing, May 2023.
- Rachel Krohn and Tim Weninger. Subreddit Links Drive Community Creation and User Engagement on Reddit. AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media, May 2022.
- Rachel Krohn and Tim Weninger. Modelling Online Comment Threads from their Start. IEEE International Conference on Big Data, December 2019.
- Rachel Krohn and Tim Weninger. Library adoption in public software repositories. Journal of Big Data, December 2019.
- Rachel Krohn and Christer Karlsson. Parallel K-Means Clustering with Triangle Inequality. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, September 2016.