As a Doctoral Researcher at the Computer Science Department of Aalto University 🇫🇮, I am working on problems in Network Science. Specifically, I’m interested in modeling pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions for epidemics. I also have done some work on bridging the gap between the theory of temporal networks and non-equilibrium phase transition formalism.
I have an MS in Physics of Complex Systems and a BA in Solid State Physics. I’m a science writer and I write at sitpor.org (FA) where I am also the editor-in-chief. Know more about me, See my CV.

Latest Papers

• 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
• Topological Analysis of Interaction Patterns in Cancer-Specific Gene Regulatory Network: Persistent Homology Approach, Sci Rep 11, 16414 (2021)
• Stability of Imbalanced Triangles in Gene Regulatory Networks of Cancerous and Normal Cells, Front. Physiol., 20 January 2021

Latest Talks

• Epidemic Spreading and Contact Tracing On Clique Networks
  CCS 2022 Palma de Mallorca, October — Slides
• Directed Percolation in Temporal Networks
  Disorder in Complex Systems, Institut Pascal, Jun 14, 2022 — Slides
• Modeling pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions for epidemics
  Random Graph Day, Math Dept., Aalto University, Oct 28, 2022 — Slides
  CS Research Day, Aalto University, Oct 6, 2022 — Slides
  Summer School: Mathematics of Large Networks, Budapest, Jun 03, 2022 — Slides
  CCNSD, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, May 8, 2022 — Slides
  Turku Data Science Group, University of Turku, March 22, 2022 — Slides
  MACSI, Dept. of Math. & Stat., University of Limerick, Feb 22, 2022 — Slides
  Sharif University of Technology, Feb 20, 2022 — Slides
• Herd Immunity and Epidemic Size in Networks with Vaccination Homophily
  SIAM Workshop on Network Science (NS22), Online, Sept 14, 2022 — Slides
  NordicMathCovid Workshop, Helsinki 24 May 2022 — Slides
  Workshop: Mathematics of Large Networks, Budapest, May 13, 2022 — Slides
  NetPLACE, April 7, 2022 — Slides, Video
  NetSciX 2022 Porto, February — Slides
• Epidemic Spreading and Digital Contact Tracing: Effects of Heterogeneous Mixing and Quarantine Failures
  CCS 2021 Lyon, October — Slides
  NordicMathCovid Workshop, Sigtuna 22 Sep 2021 — Slides

Research Projects and Networks

• CX Aalto, 2020 – 2023
• NordicMathCovid, 2020–2022

Projects in Science Communication

• Sitpor.org
• Sitpor_Media
• Complexity for Pedestrians
• “#ComplexityExplained”

Contact/Follow me

• Gmail: abbascarimi
• Twitter: @abbas_k_rizi
• Google Scholar
• ResearchGate: Abbas K. Rizi

My Twitter

Abbas K. Rizi · 3 days ago
@abbas_k_rizi

The theory of critical phenomena is The One Ring to rule them all! Last year we showed that the spreading of a disease, the dissemination of information, or the accessibility of a public transport system over time all behave the same at the critical point! https://t.co/v2cW4SxKRn https://t.co/xilsNwFwMg

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Quanta Magazine@QuantaMagazine
In a new column and video for Quanta, John M. Beggs, a professor of physics and neuroscience at Indiana University, explains how a physical principle called criticality might help our brains work at their best: https://t.co/qxj1PDVAtj

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Abbas K. Rizi · 6 days ago
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سال ۹۵ که در مشکلات مختلف غوطه‌ور بودم، شروع کردم به گوش دادن به چنل‌بی. برای ماه‌ها تنها قسمت خوب زندگی، گوش دادن به علی بندری بود. این مدت که دوباره غم در خانه دل رخنه کرده راه فراری نبود جز چک کردن لیست پادکست‌ها.
شکلتون پادکست فارسی دست مریزاد!
@channelBpodcast https://t.co/kW6f0GH6Nx

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ChannelB Podcasts پادکست‌های چنل‌بی @channelBpodcast
سریال جدید چنل‌بی شروع شد.

https://t.co/4Zb4MgkJcN https://t.co/cVRiVYA8vi

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Abbas K. Rizi · 2 weeks ago
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The funniest: Scan the literature and read what is pertinent. (You are not Feynman.)

The best: Look for kindred souls. They are few are far between, and nothing is more precious.

The sincerest: Most humanity spends its life doing boring repetitive tasks. https://t.co/xjed7ksvt6

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John Preskill@preskill
@michael_nielsen There is a lot of wisdom in this piece by David Stern. I reread it from time to time to remind myself. https://t.co/jLiTBNr06O

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Abbas K. Rizi · 4 weeks ago
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This was a really nice talk! https://t.co/mmtlp7sGeA

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing@SimonsInstitute
"Mathematics of the COVID-19 Pandemics: Lessons Learned and How to Mitigate the Next One," a talk by Abba Gumel from the Simons Institute's workshop on Epidemics and Information Diffusion this past October.
https://t.co/HMbZ2rXf9d

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Abbas K. Rizi · 1 month ago
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'By 2011, Laszlo Barabási, the figurehead of complex networks, published their work on identifying “controller nodes,” which felt like the end of the complex-network era. Since then, it’s been “many are different” rather than “more is different.”'

A nice read ... https://t.co/OX62GrICY6

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Petter Holme@pholme
About how network science soon turned its back on its parent, complexity science, in favor of even older, structuralist ideas. Blog post = yes! Speculative = yes! Insightful = No guarantee.
https://t.co/0ro9VIfWlW

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Abbas K. Rizi · 1 month ago
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Ladies & gentlemen, Dr. Arash Badie-Modiri 🧑🏻‍🎓

Opponent: Professor Renaud Lambiotte, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, England

Custos: Assistant Professor Mikko Kivelä https://t.co/UG24648LfE https://t.co/YoxWAAuxCZ

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