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On July 30, Dr. Boleslaw Szymanski was a panelist at ICCCN 2018 panel on Research Challenges on Networks in Social Spaces

Aug. 03, 2018: On July 30, Center Director, Dr. Boleslaw Szymanski was a member of the panel moderated by Professor Mani Srivatsa of UCLA at the 27th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2018) in Hangzhou,China. The panel focused on Research Challenges on Networks in Social Spaces. (more)

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Apr 12, 2019
Today, Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented a talk titled "Finding Efficient Spreaders for Information Diffusion in Social Networks" at Google in Mountain View, CA.
Apr 06, 2019
A paper titled "Predicting complex user behavior from CDR based social networks," by Casey Doyle, Zela Herga Stephen Dipple, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Gyorgy Korniss, Dunja Mladenić was posted on arXiv
Apr 04, 2019
A paper titled "The Age of Social Sensing," by Dong Wang, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Tarek Abdelzaher, Heng Ji, and Lance Kaplan, was published in IEEE Computer, vol. 52(1), 2019.
Apr 03, 2019
A paper titled "Influence Maximization for Fixed Heterogeneous Thresholds," by P. D. Karampourniotis, Boleslaw K. Szymanski and G. Korniss has been published today by Scientific Reports.
Mar 27, 2019
Xiaoyan Lu advised by Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski defended today successfully his thesis titled: "Community Detection and its Applications in Understanding Dynamics of Social Networks"
Feb 17, 2019
A paper titled "Asymptotic resolution bounds of generalized modularity and statistically significant community detection," by Xiaoyan Lu and Boleslaw K. Szymanski has been posted on arxiv
Jan 11, 2019
A paper titled "Opinion Formation Threshold Estimates from Different Combinations of Social Media Data-Types," co-authored by Casey Doyle, G. Korniss, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski of NEST was published in Proc. HICSS 2019.
Jan 09, 2019
A paper titled "A Predictive Self-Configuring Simulator for Online Media" co-authored by NEST James Flamino and Boleslaw K. Szymanski was published in Proc. IEEE WSC 2018.
Dec 20, 2018
Prof. Shlomo Havlin presented a joint NEST Center and Computer Science colloquium on Cascading Failures and Recovery in Networks of Networks at RPI on December 13, 2018
Nov 08, 2018
Today, Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented a talk entitled "Finding Efficient Spreaders for Information Diffusion in Social Networks," at the Department of Computer Science a the University of California, Santa Barbara.