Research group

Current members

Postdocs

Dr. Arttu Malkamäki – DECA project

Doctoral students

Yan Xia – Spreading of content in online social networks
Hasti Nariman – Network methods in science of science
Ali Salloum – Generalized network representation methods for understanding polarization and group formation
Letizia Iannucci – Detecting coordinated behaviour and polarization on social media

Previous members and completed theses

Postdocs

Prof. Ted Chen – ECANET project (2019 – 2022)
Prof. Antonis Matakos – DECA project (2023 – 2024)
Dr. Ali Faqeeh – ECANET, DECA & CON-NET projects

Doctoral students

Dr. Darko HricCommunity detection in complex networks – the role of node metadata (2017, with Kimmo Kaski, Santo Fortunato)
Dr. Pietro Della Briotta ParoloAnalysis of Cumulative and Temporal Patterns in Science (2017, with Kimmo Kaski, Santo Fortunato)
Dr. Arash Badie ModiriReachability and Spreading Processesin Temporal Networks (2018 – 2022)
Dr. Abbas Karimi RiziSpreadingand Epidemic Interventions: Effects of Network Structure and Dynamics (2020 – 2024)
Dr. Javier Ureña CarrionStructured Interactions: inferring social behavior in networked systems
Dr. Tarmo NurmiStructural patterns in multilayer networks

MSc thesis students

Ali Salloum – Quantifying polarisation and echo chamber effects in social networks (2021)
Yan Xia – Exploring the Spread of Tweets in Climate Discussion (2021)
Tarmo Nurmi – Constructing and multilayer motif analysis of temporal fMRI networks (2019)
Javier Ureña Carrion – Predicting social tie strengths using communication activity features (2019)
Daniele Romanini – Uniqueness and Structure of Neighborhoods in Multiplex Networks (2018)
Arash Badie Modiri – Error and Attack Tolerance of Public Transportation Networks: A Temporal Networks Approach (2018)
Sallamari Sallmen – Graphlets in Multilayer Networks (2017-2018)

Other students

Silja Sormunen – Inferring co-occurrences from WiFi logs (2018)
Esa Palosaari – Multilayer networks of organisations and social media (2020)

Visiting members

Dr. Kęstutis Baltakys (2019 – 2020)