I’m a network scientist with expertise in spreading patterns, diffusion processes, and epidemic interventions. My research focuses on modeling epidemics and linking theory with practice. My work is often categorized in the fields of Network Epidemiology, Computational Social Science, and out-of-equilibrium Statistical Physics. I also contribute to science communication as the editor-in-chief of sitpor.org (FA). I hold a D.Sc. from Aalto University’s Computer Science Department. You can read more about me here.
Books
- Doctoral Thesis:
Spreading and Epidemic Interventions: Effects of Network Structure and Dynamics, March 2024, Slides, PDF & More - Chapter:
Weighted Temporal Event Graphs and Temporal-Network Connectivity, Springer 2023
Latest Papers
- The strength and weakness of disease-induced herd immunity, arXiv:2307.04700
- Effectiveness of Contact Tracing on Networks with Cliques, Phys. Rev. E 109, 024303
- Herd Immunity and Epidemic Size in Networks with Vaccination Homophily, Phys. Rev. E 105, L052301
- Directed Percolation in Temporal Networks, Phys. Rev. Research 4, L022047
- Directed Percolation in Random Temporal Network Models with Heterogeneities, Phys. Rev. E 105, 054313
- Epidemic Spreading and Digital Contact Tracing: Effects of Heterogeneous Mixing and Quarantine Failures, Phys. Rev. E 105, 044313
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Latest Talks
- Consequences of Social Network Structure for Epidemic Interventions
DAMUT Colloquium, Math Dept. of the University of Twente, Feb 28, 2024 — Slides
Physics Department, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Feb 21, 2024 — Slides, Video
The Network Science Institute (NetSI) at Northeastern University, Nov 14, 2023 — Slides - Story Arcs, Success & Diffusion of Turkish TV Dramas
Physics Department, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Feb 21, 2024 — Slides, Video
CX Talks – CS Dept. of Aalto University, Feb 06, 204 — Slides
WICSS – NYU Abu Dhabi, Jan 12, 2024 — Slides - Selecting Scientists for Future Pandemic Preparedness and Decision-Making
A toy project presented at WICSS – NYU Abu Dhabi, Jan 12, 2024 — Slides, GitHub - Epidemic Spreading and Contact Tracing On Clique Networks
Leiden Computational Network Science Lab, Oct 10, 2023 — Slides
NetSci2023, Vienna, 14 July 2023 — Slides - Modeling pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions for epidemics
Random Graph Day, Math Dept., Aalto University, Oct 28, 2022 — Slides
Summer School: Mathematics of Large Networks, Budapest, Jun 03, 2022 — Slides - Herd Immunity and Epidemic Size in Networks with Vaccination Homophily
SIAM Workshop on Network Science (NS22), Online, Sept 14, 2022 — Slides - More ...
Latest Events
Research Projects and Networks
- Aalto Complex Systems Group, 2020 – present
- NordicMathCovid, 2020 – 2023
Projects in Science Communication
Contact/Follow me
- Gmail:
abbascarimi - Twitter: @abbas_k_rizi
- Google Scholar
- ResearchGate: Abbas K. Rizi