Research

A union of network theory, operations research, control and systems theory computer science, economics, behavioral science, and social media.

Modeling Social Network Flows

• Understand information flows, influence, and cascades
• A holisitic approach to stability and effects of network structure

Social Data

• Living labs to collect data and validate theories
• Modeling of experimental and observed data

Theory of Network Computation

• Scalable algorithms for large network optimization
• Tractable algorithms for detection and inference in large networks

Network Mechanism Design

• Designing social incentives
• Control over large and evolving networks

Social Architectures

• New applications and architectures for efficient and large-scale crowd sourcing
• Engineering more flexible architectures for interconnection of social and technological networks