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Keynote and three talks at CCS2024

Our group will present four talks at the Complex Systems Conference 2024 in Exeter:

Preprint on Multilevel Online Political Selective Exposure

We recently published a preprint of our work with Yuan Zhang, Laia Castro and Frank Essert More than ‘Left and Right’: Revealing Multilevel Online Political ...

Three Talks and one Poster at NetSci2024

Members of my group will have three talks and one poster at the flagship conference of the Network Science Society, NetSci2024 at Quebec City in Canada:

Network Topology, Polarization, and Algorithmic Curation in BlueSky

My student, Dorian Quelle and I just published a preprint of our recent work on the novel social media platform BlueSky.

Paper on Internet Research Agency misinformation campaign to influence the 2016 US election

Our paper Suspended accounts align with the Internet Research Agency misinformation campaign to influence the 2016 US election which was a collaboration with...

Paper on The perils and promises of fact-checking with large language models

I am very happy to share the first paper of my PhD Student Dorian Quelle The perils and promises of fact-checking with large language models published in Fro...

New Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning

I am thrilled to be joining the newly created Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning (D3ML) at the Faculty of Science of the University of ...

DIZH Funding

I very happy to annouce that our project “ClarifAI: Making the Unseen Seen with AI-assisted Propaganda Detection and Fact-Checking” has received funding from...

Two talks at NetSciX

I am happy to anounce that we will have two talks that the 2024 NetSciX conference in Venice, Italy, in January.

Portrait by the Swiss Young Academy

You can find my portrait done by the Swiss Young Academy here. I talked about my journey in academia, my research and my activities as the Swiss Young Academy.

New PhD Student

I am very happy to welcome Yas Asgari as a new PhD student in my research group at the University of Zurich. Yas was awarded a full scholarship from the Digi...

New paper on Political polarization of news media and influencers on Twitter in the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections in Nature Human Behaviour

During the last two years we have been working with an large team of researchers on a follow up of my paper on fake news Twitter during the 2016 US president...

Keynote at CompleNet 2023

I am thrilled to share the news that I have been invited as a Keynote speaker to the 14th International Conference on ​Complex Networks (CompleNet) in Aveiro...

New paper on the UK far-right in Telegram in Applied Network Science

Our new paper with Peter Grindrod about the Organization and evolution of the UK far-right network on Telegram has been published in Applied Network Science.

CSS Service Award for the Winter Workshop

Together with all the other organizers of the Winter Workshop on Complex Systems we received that Service Award of the Complex Systems Society during the Con...

Two new PhD students

I am very happy to welcome Samuel Koovely and Dorian Quelle as two new PhD students in my research group at the University of Zurich.

Member of the ACM Web Conference 2023 Program Committee

I am very glad to join the Program Committee of the ACM Web Conference 2023.

Opinion piece about the need for evidence-based regulation of social media platforms

Thanks to a collaboration with the Swiss Young Academy, I wrote an opinion piece about the need for evidence-based regulation of social media platforms that ...

Article in Science Advances Flow stability for dynamic community detection

I am very glad to announce that the novel framework for community detection in temporal networks I have been working on with Jean-Charles Delvenne and Renaud...

Two fully funded PhD positions at the University of Zurich

I am looking for two PhD students to work with me at the University of Zurich on developing new methods to investigate complex networks and on issues related...

New Position at the University of Zurich

I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the University of Zurich as an Assistant Professor in Network Science at the Faculty of Science Mathematics ...

ICWSM 2021 Best Program Committee Member Award

I am happy to share that I was awarded the Best Program Committee Member Award for the Fifteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM...

Presentation at the Benelux parliament about disinformation

I am honoured to have been invited to talk at a session of the Benelux parliament about disinformation and the role of social media platforms and of traditio...

Talk at CCS 2021

I will be giving a talk at the Conference on Complex Systems 2021 online on October 26th 2021.

Talk at Complex Networks 2021

I will be giving a talk at the 10th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications about my work with Peter Grindrod on the structure an...

Talk at PCNets @ Networks 2021

I will be giving a talk at the Political Communication Networks satellite of the Joint Sunbelt and NetSci conference Networks 2021 on June 24th, 2021.

Talk at ComNets @ Networks 2021

I am very happy to announce that I will be giving a talk at the Communities in Networks satellite of the Joint Sunbelt and NetSci conference Networks 2021 on...

Talk at CompleNet 2021

I am very happy to announce that I will be giving a plenary talk at the CompleNet 2021 conference that will take place online from May 24th to May 26th.

Entry for the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science

Toghether with Hernan Makse, we have been asked to write a short entry on centralities in complex networks for the volume “Statistical and Nonlinear Physics”...

Recommender for the Peer Community in Network Science

I am very glad to have been appointed as a recommender for the Peer Community in Network Science by its Managing Board.

Online talks

I will have the pleasure to give a series of invited talks in the next months at the Oxford-Warwick-Edinburgh Network Science Workshop (2021/2/15), the North...

Flow stability for dynamic community detection.

The novel framework for community detection in temporal networks I have been working on with Jean-Charles Delvenne and Renaud Lambiotte is out on arXiv.

Network building in pandemic times

Due to the current pandemic many workshops and conferences have been cancelled or replaced by online versions.

Intervention at the Belgian Senate about the fight against fake news.

The Belgian Senate is preparing a report about the collaboration between the Belgian communities and the Federal authority in the fight against fake news. In...

Talk and session chair at ComplexNetworks 2020

I will have the pleasure to give a talk at the 9th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications which will be online this year.

Talks at NetSci2020

I will have the pleasure to give two talks at the Network Science conference NetSci2020 which will be online this year.

ERCIM News on Anomaly Detection

Our work, with Leonardo Gutiérrez-Gómez and Jean-Charles Delvenne, on anomaly detection in networks was featured in the ERCIM News journal special issue on S...

FNRS Chargé de recherche

I am very happy to announce that I was awarded a FNRS (Belgian Science Foundation) Chargé de recherche fellowship with UCLouvain as a host institute.

New position at the Mathematical Institute at Oxford University

I am very glad to be joining the Mathematical Data Science group at the Mathematical Institute at Oxford University as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant work...

Election to the Swiss Young Academy

I am extremely happy to have been elected to the Swiss Young Academy as one of the first 29 members. I am looking forward to working with other members in in...

AAAI paper on anomaly detection in attributed networks.

Our work with Leonardo Gutierrez Gomez and Jean-Charles Delvenne on anomaly detection in attributed networks was accepted for the 34th AAAI Conference on Art...

Winter Workshop on Complex Systems

Together with Matteo Cinelli and Burcu Tepekule, I am organizing the Winter Workshop on Complex Systems 2020.

Media coverage of my work on the influence of fake news

My work on the the influence of fake and traditional news in Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election was covered in several media outlets:

Nature Communications paper on the influence of fake news

I am happy to announce that my work on the Influence of fake news in Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election was recently published by Nature Commun...

Talk at Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications

I will give a presentation at the The 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications in Cambridge, UK on December 13th on the Spread...

Talk at the CCS in Thessaloniki

I will give a presentation at the Conference on Complex Systems in Thessaloniki, Greece on Tuesday (Sep. 25th, 2018) on the Spreading and influence of misinf...

Talk at the ICCS in Cambridge USA

I will give a presentation at the International Conference on Complex Systems in Cambridge, MA, USA on Tuesday (July 24th, 2018) on the Spreading and influen...

Importance and influence of fake and traditional news in Twitter

I presented my work on the importance and influence of fake and traditional news in Twitter during the 2016 US elections at the 2018 NetSci conference en Par...

Physics World News

My work on the influence of fake news during the 2016 US presidential elections in Twitter is featured in the journal Physics World (2018 Phys. World 31 (5)...

Lesson on Twitter Network and Sentiment Analysis

Here is a lesson I gave at the CUNY Graduate Center on Twitter Network Analysis and Sentiment Analysis.

Measuring and Understanding Opinion Trends in Twitter

In our manuscript, we develop an new method to infer the opinion of Twitter using a combination of statistical physics of complex networks and machine learn...

Science & Vie Article

Science News

Finalist EPFL doctorate Award 2016

I am a finalist of the EPFL doctorate Award 2016 and was awarded a special distinction form the Jury for my Thesis on Suprathermal ion transport in turbulent...

SNSF Fellowship

I was awarded an Early Postdoc Fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of information diffusion in social networks with Pro...

Diffusion in Turbulent Plasmas

I earned my PhD in physics intituled “Suprathermal ion transport in turbulent magnetized plasmas” from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). M...