Bruno Gonçalves is a faculty member at Aix-Marseille Université with a strong expertise in using large-scale datasets for the analysis of human behaviour. After completing his joint PhD in Physics, MSc in C.S. at Emory University in Atlanta, GA in 2008 he joined the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at Indiana University as a Research Associate. From September 2011 until August 2012 he was an Associate Research Scientist at the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Technical Systems at Northeastern University. Since 2009 he has been pursuing the use of Data Science and Machine Learning to study human behavior. By processing and analyzing large datasets from Twitter, Wikipedia, web access logs, and Yahoo! Meme he studied how we can observe both large scale and individual human behavior in an obtrusive and widespread manner. The main applications have been to the study of Information Diffusion, Behavioral Change and Epidemic Spreading. He is the author of over 40 publications and the editor of the forthcoming book Social Phenomena: From Data To Models (Springer, 2014). In the past he has helped organize three successful editions of the Computational Approaches to Social Modeling workshop (ChASM), the two most recent editions of the International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci) and has served on the program committee of prestigious conferences such as ECCS, Hypertext, ICCS, ICWSM, SocInfo, WebSci, WSDM and WWW.
Márton Karsai an Assistant Professor with INRIA chair at the Computer Science Department LIP of École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in the INRIA Dante team hosted by IXXI Rhône-Alpes Complex System Institute. He has research interest in computational social science and data-driven research. He earned his co-supervised PhD in 2009 at the Université Joseph Fourier (France) and University of Szeged (Hungary) and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Aalto University (Espoo, Finland) and at Northeastern University (Boston, USA). He is co-responsible of the “Modelling Complex Systems” M2 master program at ENS Lyon, and co-supervised (is supervising) 3 PhD students and 5 Master students in the recent years. Since his PhD he specialized in analyzing large human interaction datasets and to develop data-driven modeling techniques. He has been co-organizer of five workshops on ICT enabled human behavior, human dynamics, and a workshop series on computational social science. He was also the member of several program committees during the last years in conferences and workshops at ICCSA, ECCS, or NetSci.
Nicola Perra serves as Associate Research Scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Cagliari, Italy in 2011. In 2009 he joined the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at Indiana University as a Research Associate. From September 2011 until August 2014 he was a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Technical Systems at Northeastern University. He research focuses on temporal networks, human dynamics, big-data analytics, and mathematical/digital epidemiology. His research has been published in high impact factor journals and conferences as Phys. Rev. Lett., Nature Scientific Reports, and KDD. He has been one the co-organizer of eight workshops on human dynamics, social modeling and temporal networks hosted in major international conferences in Physics, Network Science, and Computer Science as the American Physical Society (APS) march meeting, the major conference in Network Science (NetSci), the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS), and the International Conference on Computer Science (ICCS). He also served as program committee member in thirteen international conferences and workshops in Physics, Network Science, and Computer Science as NetSci, WWW, WebSci, and ECCS.
Márton Karsai an Assistant Professor with INRIA chair at the Computer Science Department LIP of École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in the INRIA Dante team hosted by IXXI Rhône-Alpes Complex System Institute. He has research interest in computational social science and data-driven research. He earned his co-supervised PhD in 2009 at the Université Joseph Fourier (France) and University of Szeged (Hungary) and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Aalto University (Espoo, Finland) and at Northeastern University (Boston, USA). He is co-responsible of the “Modelling Complex Systems” M2 master program at ENS Lyon, and co-supervised (is supervising) 3 PhD students and 5 Master students in the recent years. Since his PhD he specialized in analyzing large human interaction datasets and to develop data-driven modeling techniques. He has been co-organizer of five workshops on ICT enabled human behavior, human dynamics, and a workshop series on computational social science. He was also the member of several program committees during the last years in conferences and workshops at ICCSA, ECCS, or NetSci.
Nicola Perra serves as Associate Research Scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Cagliari, Italy in 2011. In 2009 he joined the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at Indiana University as a Research Associate. From September 2011 until August 2014 he was a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Technical Systems at Northeastern University. He research focuses on temporal networks, human dynamics, big-data analytics, and mathematical/digital epidemiology. His research has been published in high impact factor journals and conferences as Phys. Rev. Lett., Nature Scientific Reports, and KDD. He has been one the co-organizer of eight workshops on human dynamics, social modeling and temporal networks hosted in major international conferences in Physics, Network Science, and Computer Science as the American Physical Society (APS) march meeting, the major conference in Network Science (NetSci), the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS), and the International Conference on Computer Science (ICCS). He also served as program committee member in thirteen international conferences and workshops in Physics, Network Science, and Computer Science as NetSci, WWW, WebSci, and ECCS.
Program Committee
- Andrea Baronchelli (City University)
- Claudia Wagner (GESIS)
- Iyad Rahwan (Masdar Institute)
- Bruno Ribeiro (Carnegie Mellon)
- Luca Maria Aiello (Yahoo! Research)
- Alain Barrat (Aix Marseille)
- Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation)
- Javier Borge Holthoefer (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
- Emilio Ferrara (Indiana University)
- Rossano Schifanella (University of Turin)
- Christophe Crespelle (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
- Eric Fleury (ENS Lyon)
- Matthieu Latapy (LIP6, CNRS)
- Andre Panisson (ISI Foundation)
- Leatitia Gauvain (ISI Foundation)
- Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
- Francesco Bonchi (Yahoo! Research)