Research Group

 

Principal Investigator

  • That would be me.
  • Postdoctoral Scholars

  • Dr. Casey Johnson, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Opinion Dynamics on Networks. [December 2022--present]
  • Dr. Leah Keating, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Contagion Models on Networks. [July 2023--present]
  • Dr. Sanjukta Krishnagopol, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Topics in Complex Systems. (Sanjukta is simultaneously a postdoc in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with Jennifer Chayes as her mentor there.) [July 2022--present]
  • Dr. Sarah Tymochko, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Microbiome Dynamics and Topological Data Analysis. [July 2022--present]
  • Doctoral Students

  • Theodore Faust, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Core-Periphery Structure in Temporal and Multilayer Networks [Spring 2022--present]
  • Michael Johnson, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Multilayer Network Models of Microbiome Dynamics. [Fall 2021--present]
  • Christine Kling, Department of Computational Medicine, UCLA, Topics in Network Epidemiology and Dynamical Systems on Networks. [Fall 2021--present]
  • Grace Li, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Opinion Dynamics with Heterogeneity. [Fall 2020--present]
  • Jerry Luo, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Topics in Topological Data Analysis and Opinion Dynamics. [Fall 2020--present]
  • James Raj, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Hyperuniform Materials. [Fall 2023--present]
  • Filippo Riscica Lizzio, Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, University of Hamburg, Political Deliberations: Epistemological and Formal Perspectives. (Joint with Thomas Krödel and Peter Niesen) [Summer 2021--present]
  • Zhiping ("Patricia") Xiao, Department of Computer Science, UCLA, Ideology Analysis for Social-Media Users via Multimodal Data Mining. (Joint with Yizhou Sun) [Winter 2019--present]
  • Masters Students

  • [Nobody right now]
  • Undergraduate Students

  • Max Eisenberg, Mathematics, UCLA, A Coupled Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible-Infected Model of Two Sexually Transmitted Diseases (joint with Christine Kling) [Fall 2023--present]
  • Emily Gong, Mathematics, UCLA, Twitter Debates on COVID-19 Policy in China, Multilayer Functional Brain Networks, and Opinion Dynamics on Networks [Summer 2022--present. The opinion-dynamics project is mentored jointly with Sarah Tymochko.]
  • Sinaya Joshi, Mathematics and Economics, UCLA, To Be Determined [Spring 2024--present]
  • Megan Mathews, Computational & Systems Biology, UCLA, Multiplex Networks Analysis of a University Social Network [Spring 2023--present]
  • Nick Monozon, Applied Mathematics, UCLA, Preferential Attachment of Hypergraphs [Winter 2023--present]
  • Xiaohan ("Cathy") Sun, Mathematics of Computation, UCLA, Hyperuniform Networks [Fall 2023--present]
  • Yuexuan ("Yolanda") Wu, Mathematics and Economics, UCLA, Multilayer Networks in Microfinance [Winter 2024--present]
  • Zi ("Shawn") Zhu, Applied Mathematics, UCLA, Social-Media Networks [Spring 2024--present]
  • Visitors

  • Prof. Kwang-Il Goh, Professor, Physics, Korea University, Topics in Network Science [August 2023--August 2024]