Amin Rahimian
@aminrahimian
assistant prof @PittTweet. networks, data, decisions. https://t.co/NDloPzxDzu
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http://aminrahimian.github.io 13-03-2009 09:38:08
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I'd like to promote and highly recommend a workshop in complexity theory for graduate students which will be held at DIMACS and organized by Lijie Chen , Roei Tell, and Ryan Williams @[email protected] . More details can be found here: dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/details…
Deadline to apply: May 19
I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining the University of Virginia in August as an Assistant Professor of Biology! I’m thrilled to be a part of UVa Biology and to be hired as part of the groundbreaking and cross-disciplinary Contagion Science program.
In a paper published for Nature Human Behaviour, a team of researchers including Amin Rahimian and Dean Eckles found that long-tie connections accelerate the speed of social contagion. news.engineering.pitt.edu/infected-under…
So nice to see Nature News & Views research briefing of W. Quattrociocchi Matteo Cinelli Andrea Baronchelli et al's @nature paper out last week. It does a great job summarizing the paper, which shows that long discussions online are the most toxic across platforms, topics & time: nature.com/articles/d4158…
'Algorithmically Mediating Communication to Enhance Collective Decision-Making in Online Social Networks' is out Collective Intelligence journal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… joint work with Jason Burton Abdullah Almaatouq | عبدالله المعتوق Ulrike Hahn, building on earlier results in ACM Collective Intelligence 2021
This new paper from Dean Eckles et al. counters recent findings that clustered networks are better at facilitating the spread of threshold-based contagions than randomly rewired networks. Amin Rahimian MIT IDSS University of Pittsburgh
nature.com/articles/s4156…