Santo's Website

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

Fellow of the American Physical Society

Fellow of the Network Science Society

Author of A First Course in Network Science

News

• I am the top faculty of Luddy School according to Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists Ranking. Here is the school's press release. 

• 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. You can find the videos of the lectures here.

• 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.

• 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 

Recent papers                               

• (Some) neural embeddings, like node2vec, are surprisingly good at learning community structure! Check our paper, just out in Nature Communications.

• 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