People

The Center has four principal members: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Northeastern University, City University of New York and IBM. In addition, the Center has multiple partners from many other institutions.

Center Director

Boleslaw Szymanski
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science

Principle Member, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Participants

Sibel Adali
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

Jim Hendler
Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor, Department of Computer Science

Heng Ji
Edward G. Hamilton Development Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

Gyorgy Korniss
Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Malik Magdon-Ismail
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

William Wallace
Yamada Corporation Professor, Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering

General Member Northeastern Participants

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Physics, Director of the Center for Complex Network Research

David Lazer
Associate Professor, Public Policy

General Member IBM Participants

Ching-Yung Lin
IBM Chief Scientist, Graph Computing & IBM Distinguished Researcher

General Member CUNY Participants

Hernan Makse
Professor, Department of Physics

Jennifer Mangels
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

Subawardees

Alex Pentland
(MIT), Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts and Sciences

Brian Uzzi
(Northwestern Univ.), Richard L. Thomas Distinguished Chair in Leadership, Kellogg School of Management

Zoltan Toroczkai
(Notre Dame), Associate Professor, Physics

Nitesh Chawla
(Notre Dame), Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Omar Lizzardo
(Notre Dame), Assistant Professor, Sociology

Stanley Wasserman
(Indiana), Rudy Professor of Sociology, Psychology and Statistics

Recent News

Jun 20, 2017
On June 19, 2017, Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski presented an invited talk on “Impact of Social Influence on Society Stability” at the Social Influence Satellite Workshop at the NetSci Conference in Indianapolis, IN.
Jun 17, 2017
The US Patent Office issued a patent #9,655,564 titled "Use of machine learning for classification of magneto cardiograms" co-invented by Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski.
Jun 07, 2017
Dr. Panagiotis Karampopurniotis, Research Assistant in the Center, advised by Prof. Gyorgy Korniss and Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski, defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "The Impact of Heterogeneity in Thresholds of Opinion Dynamics and in Crowd Decision-Making"
Jun 05, 2017
On June 2nd, 2017, B.K. Szymanski presented a keynote entitled "Large Scale Community Detection in Social and Bio-Medical Networks" at the IEEE Parallel & DistributedProcessing for Computational Social Systems (ParSocial 2017) Orlando, FL see link below.
Jun 04, 2017
The paper entitled "Information Cascades in Feed-based Networks of Users with Limited Attention," by S. Sreenivasan, K. Chan, A. Swami, G. Korniss, and B. Szymanski was published by the IEEE Trans. Network Science and Eng., 4(2):120-128, see link below.
Jun 03, 2017
On June 2nd, 2017, Xiauyan Lu presented a paper entitled "Predicting Viral News Events in Online Media" authored by himself and Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski at the IEEE Parallel and Distributed Proc. for Comput. Social Systems (ParSocial 2011).
May 22, 2017
The Center at the 211th Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Graduation Ceremony, Degrees: May 20th, 2017
May 05, 2017
Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski presented an invited talk on "Social Networks and Influence through the Prism of Cognition" at the research seminar of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University, Philadelphia. PA.
May 05, 2017
RPI News and Communication issued a news release on "Patterns of Changing Research Interest Uncovered".
May 02, 2017
SCNARC Research Assistant, Mr. Juntao Zhuang, successfully defended his M.S. thesis advised by Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski entitled "Design and Implementation of the Web Interfaces and Middleware for Synergy Project" on March 30, 2017.