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                                      Professor at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

                                   Member of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS)

                                                                   Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

News

• Postdoc position available in my group in the area of science of science. Tentative starting date January 1st, 2025.  Check the ad and apply!

• I was named an inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS.

• I have organized and given A Short First Course in Network Science, a two-weeks online basic course for people interested in the topic, held in June 2024, sponsored by the Network Science Society. 

• I have co-organized the network science program for the 2024 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Minneapolis. Thanks to my co-organizers Raffaella Burioni, Guido Caldarelli and Filippo Radicchi.

• I have been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for foundational contributions to the statistical physics of complex networks, and particularly to the study of community detection in networks and applications to social and scientific networks. Thanks to the Society and to all my collaborators and mentors for this distinguished recognition! See Luddy's release here.

• Our overview of network community detection on the 20th anniversary of the Girvan-Newman paper is out in Nature Physics! Delightful first collaboration with the great Mark Newman 

• I have been elected Fellow of the Network Science Society for seminal work in network community structure leading to advances in multiresolution approaches and validation, and for contributions to disseminating network science. Thanks to the Society and to all my collaborators and mentors for this amazing honor! See Luddy's release here.

Recent papers                               

• Over 92% of authors of papers on Covid-19 knew nothing about infectious diseases! Problem or opportunity? Both! Check out our comment in Nature Human Behavior. See Luddy's press release here.

• What's the best subway line one can build with a fixed budget? It could be one serving only half of the population! Check out our paper, published in Nature Communications. 

• How can you mitigate epidemic spreading in structured populations? Just make social groups overlap! Check our paper, just published in PRX, and its highlight in Physics

• Our first paper on climate change is finally out in Geophysical Research Letters! See how anomalies in temperature in the El Niño Southern Oscillation may be connected to anomalies in precipitation elsewhere

• Are graph embedding algorithms useful for community detection? Not really! Take a look at our paper, where we show that the best traditional clustering algorithms generally outperform clustering techniques based on graph embeddings