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Boleslaw Szymanski and Gyorgy Korniss of the NeST Center are the members of SocialCube $4M grant funded by the new DARPA Social Sim program

Jun. 28, 2017: RPI researchers Boleslaw Szymanski (PI) and Gyorgy Korniss (co-PI) joined the team of UIUC researchers: Tarek Abdelzaher (PI), Jiawei Han (co-PI) and David Nicol (co-PI) in preparing a proposal titled SocialCube: A Multiscale Modeling and Simulation Framework for Social Streams. In June, this proposal has been selected for funding by the new DARPA program called Social Sim. (more)

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Jun 22, 2018
Michał Gorawski will present a center seminar Wednesday, June 27, 2018 entitled "Storing and Processing Data from IoT Smart Devices" hosted by Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski
May 26, 2018
On May 23, Kshiteesh Hegde defended a Ph.D. thesis on "Applications of Deep Network Signatures to Subgraph Classification, Quantification of Network Structure and Topologically Heterogeneous Node Classification," advised by Prof Malik Magdon-Ismail
May 04, 2018
An article on "Dual-regularized one-class collaborative filtering with implicit feedback," by Y. Yao, H. Tong, G. Yan, F. Xu, X. Zhang, B. K. Szymanski, and J. Lu appeared in World Wide Web journal.
Apr 18, 2018
Prof. David Skillicorn Queen’s University of Kingston, Canada, presented a joint NEST and Computer Science Department seminar titled: "Enriching Social Network Analysis for Adversarial Settings" hosted Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski
Apr 05, 2018
Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented Distinguished Lecture on “Failures, Dynamics, Evolution and Control of the Global Risk Network” at the Institute for System Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
Apr 04, 2018
Alaa Moussawi presented a poster "Evolution and Control in the Global Risk Network," by Xiang Niu, Alaa Moussawi, Gyorgy Korniss, Jianxi Gao, Boleslaw K. Szymanski at the SMA Conference
Mar 28, 2018
A paper entitled "Peer-to-peer lending and bias in crowd decision-making" co-authored by NEST researchers, Panagiotis Karampourniotis, Boleslaw Szymanski, and Gyorgy Korniss appeared today in PLoS One journal
Mar 28, 2018
Today Alaa Moussawi defended a Physics Ph.D. thesis entitled "Failure Mitigation, Vulnerability Detection and Persistence of Network Flows in Complex Systems," supervised by NEST Professors Gyorgy Korniss and Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Mar 20, 2018
Prof. Sergio Pequito gave Center and CS seminar entitled "A Framework for Structural Input/Output and Control Configuration Selection of Complex Networks," hosted by Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski
Mar 19, 2018
Dr. Fregolent presented a Center seminar entitled "Limited Individual Attention and Virality of Low-Quality Information in Online Social Networks," and hosted by Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski