His research targets topics from social media, information retrieval, recommender systems, data mining, emerging networked information systems, and occasional forays into distributed systems and services computing. Caverlee is a recipient of the 2010 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award, the 2012 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award, and a 2012 NSF CAREER Award. He spent his sabbatical in 2015 at Google as a Visiting Scientist. Caverlee received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 2007, M.S. degrees in Computer Science (2001) and in Engineering-Economic Systems & Operations Research (2000) from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Economics from Duke University (1996, magna cum laude).