I’m a network scientist who is passionate about using network data to examine large-scale social phenomena and address epidemiological questions. As a postdoc researcher at DTU Compute and the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), I analyze social behavior to forecast life outcomes and bridge the gap between theory and practice. My work falls into the categories of Network Epidemiology, Computational Social Science, and Complex Systems. I hold a D.Sc. from the Computer Science Department at Aalto University. I also contribute to science communication for the public as a science writer and the editor-in-chief of sitpor.org (FA). 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
- Strength and Weakness of Disease-induced Herd Immunity in Networks, 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
- More ...
Latest Talks
- Science Communication in Network Science Community
CX Talks – CS Dept. of Aalto University, Jun 25, 2024 — Slides, Video
NetPLACE, May 16, 2024 — Slides - Network Interplay: Competing Effects on Herd Immunity
NetPLACE, May 16, 2024 — Slides - Consequences of Social Network Structure for Epidemic Interventions
SODAS, University of Copenhagen, April 25, 2024 — Slides
NordicMathEpi Meeting, Copenhagen, April 23, 2024 — Slides
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
CCS 2024, University of Exeter, Sep 04, 2024 — Slides
Physics Department, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Feb 21, 2024 — Slides, Video
CX Talks – CS Dept. of Aalto University, Feb 06, 2024 — 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 – present
Projects in Science Communication
Contact/Follow me
- Gmail:
abbascarimi - Twitter: @abbas_k_rizi
- Google Scholar
- ResearchGate: Abbas K. Rizi
Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone.
“But which is the stone that supports the bridge?” Kublai Khan asks.
“The bridge is not supported by one stone or another,” Marco answers, “but by the line of the arch that they form.”
Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: “Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.”
Polo answers: “Without stones there is no arch.”
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
