Research Group

 

Principal Investigator

  • That would be me.
  • Postdoctoral Scholars

  • Dr. Weiqi Chu, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Opinion Models on Networks. (Joint with Andrea Bertozzi) [July 2021--June 2023]
  • Dr. Gillian Grindstaff, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Topics in Topological Data Analysis. [July 2022--June 2023]
  • Dr. Leah Keating, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Contagion Models on Networks. [starting July 2023]
  • Dr. Sanjukta Krishnagopol, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Topics in Complex Systems. [July 2022--present]
  • Dr. Sarah Tymochko, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Microbiome Dynamics and Topological Data Analysis. [July 2022--present]
  • Doctoral Students

  • Christine Craib, Department of Computational Medicine, UCLA, Topics in Network Epidemiology and Dynamical Systems on Networks. [Fall 2021--present]
  • Theodore Faust, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Core-Periphery Structure in Temporal and Multilayer Networks [Spring 2022--present]
  • Abigail Hickok, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Geometric and Topological Data Analysis. [Summer 2019--present]
  • Michael Johnson, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Multilayer Network Models of Microbiome Dynamics. [Fall 2020--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 Higher-Order Networks. [Fall 2020--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]
  • Mina Shahi, Department of Bioengineering, UCLA, Topics in Network Neuroscience. (Joint with Peyman Golshani and Danielle Bassett)[Spring 2020--present]
  • Masters Students

  • [Nobody right now]
  • Undergraduate Students

  • Marieth Coetzer, Data Theory, UCLA, A Bounded-Confidence Model of Opinion Dynamics with Peacemakers [Spring 2023--present]
  • Emily Gong, Mathematics, UCLA, Twitter Debates on COVID-19 Policy in China [Summer 2022--present]
  • Chloe Florit, Mathematics, UCLA, An Agent-Based Model of Evacuation from Buildings (joint with Grace Li) [Winter 2023--present]
  • Christine ("Mika") Hamakawa, Data Theory, UCLA, Modeling the Bamboo Ceiling (joint with Michelle Feng) [Summer 2020--present]
  • Nick Monozon, Data Theory, UCLA, Preferential Attachment of Hypergraphs [Winter 2023--present]
  • Sarah Sotoudeh, Data Theory, UCLA, Data Analysis of Polarization in Congress (joint with Sanjukta Krishnagopal) [Winter 2023--present]
  • Ruiyao Xu, Mathematics, UCLA, Community Structure in Networks of Reddit Discussions of COVID-19 [Fall 2022--present]
  • Ethan Young, Data Theory, UCLA, Dynamical Importance and Network Perturbations [Spring 2022--present]
  • Visitors

  • Alessandro Cavalleri, Masters Student, Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Risk Sharing in Multilayer Networks [May 2023--June 2023]
  • Dr. Alina Dubovskaya, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Limerick, Effects of Different Opinion Distributions on Bounded-Confidence Models of Opinion Dynamics [May 2023--June 2023]