Kathy Macropol is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Arcadia University. She graduated with a BS in Chemistry from UCLA and an MS in Computer Science from CSU Channel Islands, before receiving a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Born and raised in Southern California, she moved to Pennsylvania and joined the faculty of Arcadia University in 2012. Dr. Macropol's research focuses upon Data Mining and Bioinformatics, and especially the discovery of new techniques to model and mine large, time-evolving graphs. Some past and current projects include building methods to find new gene and protein functions from biological networks, creating systems to model and predict communication flow between people, finding new ways to analyze and predict changes of opinion (and "influence") inside social networks, and many more. Her projects have been published in multiple leading international conferences and journals, including VLDB and PKDD, and more information on her research publications can be found here. In her spare time she enjoys anime and manga, watching Chinese and Korean period dramas, drawing, and playing video and computer games. She is also a huge fan of Ivan the Hamster Knight!