Bruno Gonçalves Curriculum Vitae

CONTACT

  • Office Address:

    Centre Physique Théorique
    Aix-Marseille Université
    Campus de Luminy
    Marseille, France

  • Office Phone: +33 (0)4 91 26 95 33
  • Personal website: www.bgoncalves.com
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    • PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

    Maître de Conférences - Aix-Marseille Université

    09/2012 - Present

    Associate Research Scientist - Northeastern University

    09/2011 - 08/2012

    Research Associate - Indiana University

    09/2008 - 08/2011

    RESEARCH INTERESTS

    Epidemic Modeling
    Complex Networks
    Human Dynamics
    Agent-Based Modeling

    HONORS AND AWARDS

    Visiting Researcher
    Fondazione ISI, Torino, Italy Jul. 1 – Jul. 28, 2012
    University of Warwick, Warwick, England May 13 – May 26, 2012
    Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, Spain Oct. 31 – Nov. 26, 2011
    Fondazione ISI, Torino, Italy Jul. 9 – Jul. 31, 2011
    Fondazione ISI, Torino, Italy Jul. 7 – Jul. 31, 2010
    Fondazione ISI, Torino, Italy Jun. 20 – Jul. 31, 2009
    Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM Jun. 19 – Aug. 18, 2006
    Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM Jun. 6 – Sept. 4, 2005
    Award
    Group on Stat. and Non-Linear Physics - APS
    Honorable Mention on the 2010
    Gallery of Nonlinear Images Competition.
    Mar. 2010
    Scholarship
    Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
    Application of statistical models to the prediction of florescence dates of the vineyards of the Douro region.
    Jan. – Jun. 2002

    GRANTS

    1. Computational Approaches to the Modeling of Infectious Disease Transmission Between and Within Animal and Human Populations
      A. Vespignani, B. Gonçalves, C. Scoglio
      National Agricultural Biosecurity Center – 2011
    2. Designing an Effective HIV Prevention Plan for Botswana by Coupling an Information Network Model with a Meta-population Transmission Model
      S. Blower, B. Wagner, J. Okano, A. Vespignani, B. Gonçalves, R. Vardavas
      National Academies Keck Futures - 2008 Futures Grant on Complex Systems

    EDUCATION

    Ph.D Physics/ M.Sc. in C. S. - Emory University 2008
    M.S. Physics - Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal 2004
    B.S. Physics - Universidade do Porto, Portugal 2001

    SERVICE

    • Organizer:
      1. NetSci 2013: International Workshop and Conference on Network Science
        Copenhagen, Denmark
        http://www.netsci2013.net
      2. Focus Session: Physical Approaches to Social Modeling
        APS March Meeting 2013, Baltimore, MD
      3. ChASM 2012: Computational Approaches to Social Modeling
        Workshop parallel to ICCS 2012, Omaha, NE
        http://www.chasm.ws
      4. Focus Session: Complex and Co-evolving Networks
        APS March Meeting 2012, Boston, MA
    • Regular refereeing of papers submitted to:
      1. Nature Scientific Reports
      2. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
      3. Networks and Spatial Economics
      4. EPJ Data Science
      5. PLoS One
      6. Math. Biosciences
      7. Euro. Phys. J. B.
      8. Phys. Rev. E
      9. Physica A
    • Participation in the Program Committee of:
      1. Hypertext 2013
      2. ICCS 2013 - International Conference on Computational Science
      3. ECCS'12 Satellite Meeting - Data Driven Modeling of Contagion Processes
      4. Hypertext 2012
      5. World Wide Web 2012
      6. Social Network Systems 2010
      7. Web Search and Data Mining - Late Breaking Results 2008

    SOFTWARE PROJECTS

    1. Truthy @ Indiana
      http://truthy.indiana.edu
      Automated system to detect ``organic'' and ``artificial'' memes in micro blogging platforms.

    2. GLEaMViz simulator
      http://www.gleamviz.org/simulator/
      Software system for the simulation of infectious diseases on a global scale.

    3. EPIdemic Cyberinfrastructure (EpiC)
      http://epic.slis.indiana.edu/
      Computational infrastructure for epidemics research and education.

    BOOK CHAPTERS

    1. Social networks, contagion processes and the spreading of infectious diseases
      B. Gonçalves, N. Perra, A. Vespignani
      In Handbook of Systems Biology: Concepts and Insights
      Job Dekker, Marc Vidal and A.J. Marian Walhout (Editors)
      Springer (2012) ISBN: 9780123859440

    2. Abuse of social media and political manipulation
      B. Gonçalves, M. Connover, F. Menczer
      InThe Death of The Internet
      M. Jakobsson (Editor)
      Wiley (2012) ISBN: 9781118062418

    PUBLICATIONS

    PDF files and an up-to-date publication list can be found here: http://www.bgoncalves.com/publications.html
    Citation data: http://bit.ly/GoogleScholar
    ${}^{\dagger}$ ``Equally contributing first author''

    1. Characterizing scientific production and consumption in Physics
      Q. Zhang, N. Perra, B. Gonçalves, F. Ciulla, A. Vespignani
      Nature Scientific Reports 3, 1640 (2013), arXiv: 1302.6569

    2. The Twitter of Babel: Mapping World Languages through Microblogging Platforms
      D. Mocanu, A. Baronchelli, N. Perra, B. Gonçalves, A. Vespignani
      PLoS One 8, E61981 (2013), arXiv: 1212.5238

    3. Emergence of influential spreaders in modified rumor models
      J. Borge-Holthoefer, S. Meloni, B. Gonçalves, Y. Moreno
      J. Stat. Phys. 151, 383 (2013), arXiv: 1209.1351

    4. Walking and searching in time-varying networks
      N. Perra, A. Baronchelli, D. Mocanu, B. Gonçalves, R. Pastor-Satorras, A. Vespignani
      Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 238701 (2012), arXiv: 1206.2858

    5. Real time numerical forecast of global epidemic spreading: case study of 2009 A/H1N1pdm
      M. Tizzoni, P. Bajardi, C. Poletto, J. J. Ramasco, D. Balcan, B. Gonçalves, N. Perra, V. Colizza, A. Vespignani
      BMC Medicine 10, 165 (2012) 

    6. Beating the news using Social Media: the case study of American Idol
      F. Ciulla, D. Mocanu, A. Baronchelli, B. Gonçalves, N. Perra, A. Vespignani
      EPJ Data Science 1, 8 (2012), arXiv: 1205.4467

    7. Activity driven modeling of dynamic networks
      N. Perra, B. Gonçalves, R. Pastor-Satorras, A. Vespignani
      Nature Scientific Reports 2, 469 (2012), arXiv: 1203.5351

    8. Partisan Asymmetries in Online Political Activity
      M. Conover, B. Gonçalves, A. Flammini, F. Menczer
      EPJ Data Science 1, 6 (2012), arXiv: 1205.1010

    9. Towards a characterization of behavior-disease models
      N. Perra, D. Balcan, B. Gonçalves, A. Vespignani
      PLoS One 6, e23084 (2011), arXiv: 1107.0997

    10. Modeling Users’ Activity on Twitter Networks: Validation of Dunbar’s Number
      B. Gonçalves, N. Perra, A. Vespignani
      PLoS One 6, e22656 (2011), arXiv: 1105.5170

    11. Happiness is assortative in online social networks.
      J. Bollen, B. Gonçalves, G. Ruan, H. Mao
      ALIFE 17, 237 (2011), arXiv: 1103.0784

    12. The GLEaMviz computational tool, a publicly available software to explore realistic epidemic spreading scenarios at the global scale
      W. Van den Broeck, C. Gioannini , B. Gonçalves, M. Quaggiotto, V. Colizza, A Vespignani
      BMC Infectious Diseases 11, 37 (2011)

    13. Modeling the spatial spread of infectious diseases: the GLobal Epidemic and Mobility computational model
      D. Balcan, B. Gonçalves, H. Hu, V. Colizza, J. J. Ramasco, A. Vespignani
      J. of Computational Science 1, 132 (2010)

    14. Comparing large-scale computational approaches to epidemic modeling: Agent based versus structured metapopulation models
      M. Ajelli, B. Gonçalves ${}^{\dagger}$, D. Balcan, V. Colizza, H. Hu, J. J. Ramasco, S. Merler, A. Vespignani
      BMC Infectious Diseases 10, 190 (2010) 

    15. Modeling vaccination campaigns and the Fall/Winter 2009 activity of the new A(H1N1) influenza in the Northern Hemisphere
      D. Balcan, V. Colizza, A. C. Singer, C. Chouaid, H. Hu, B. Gonçalves, P. Bajardi, C. Poletto, J. J. Ramasco, N. Perra, M. Tizzoni, D. Paolotti, W. Van den Broeck, A. J. Valleron, A. Vespignani.
      PLoS Currents: Influenza Dec 4, RRN1133 (2009) 

    16. Multiscale mobility networks and the spatial spreading of infectious diseases.
      D. Balcan, V. Colizza, B. Gonçalves, H. Hu, J. J. Ramasco, A. Vespignani
      Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 106, 21484-21489 (2009), arXiv: 0907.3304

    17. Estimate of Novel Influenza A/H1N1 cases in Mexico at the early stage of the pandemic with a spatially structured epidemic model
      V. Colizza, A. Vespignani, N. Perra, C. Poletto, B. Gonçalves, H. Hu, D. Balcan, D. Paolotti, W. Van den Broeck, M. Tizzoni, P. Bajardi, J.J. Ramasco
      PLoS Currents: Influenza Nov 11, RRN1129 (2009) 

    18. Seasonal transmission potential and activity peaks of the new influenza A(H1N1): a Monte Carlo likelihood analysis based on human mobility
      D. Balcan, H. Hu, B. Gonçalves${}^{\dagger}$, P. Bajardi, C. Poletto, J. J. Ramasco, D. Paolotti, N. Perra, M. Tizzoni, W. Van den Broeck, V. Colizza, A. Vespignani
      BMC Medicine 7, 45 (2009), arXiv: 0909.2417

    19. Modeling the critical care demand and antibiotics resources needed during the Fall 2009 wave of influenza A(H1N1) pandemic.
      P. Bajardi, C. Poletto, D. Balcan, H. Hu, B. Gonçalves, J. J. Ramasco, D. Paolotti, N. Perra, M. Tizzoni, W. Van den Broeck, V. Colizza, A. Vespignani
      Emerging Health Threats Journal 2 e11 (2009)

    20. The Peculiar Phase Structure of Random Graph Bisection
      A. G. Percus, G. Istrate, B. Gonçalves, R. Z. Sumi, S. Boettcher
      J. Math. Phys. 49, 125219 (2008), arXiv:0808.1549

    21. Anomalous Diffusion on the Hanoi Networks
      S. Boettcher, B. Gonçalves
      Euro Phys. Lett. 84, 30002 (2008), arXiv:0802.2757

    22. Geometry and Dynamics for Hierarchical Regular Networks
      S. Boettcher, B. Gonçalves, J. Azaret
      J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41, 335003 (2008), arXiv: 0805.3013

    23. Hierarchical, Regular Small-World Networks
      S. Boettcher, B. Gonçalves, H. Guclu
      J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41, 252001 (2008), arXiv:0712.1259

    24. Human Dynamics Revealed Through Web Analytics
      B. Gonçalves, J. J. Ramasco
      Phys. Rev. E 78, 026123 (2008), arXiv:0803.4108

    25. Hysteretical Optimization In Spin Glasses
      B. Gonçalves, S. Boettcher
      J. Stat. Mech. P01003 (2008), arXiv:0710.2138

    26. Magnetic Reversal Time in Open Long Range Systems
      F. Borgonovi, G. L. Celardo, B. Gonçalves, L.Spadafora
      Phys. Rev. E 77, 061119 (2008), arXiv:0710.3935

    27. Transport on Weighted Networks: When Correlations are Independent of Degree
      J. Ramasco, B. Gonçalves
      Phys. Rev. E 76, 066106 (2007), arXiv:cond-mat/0609776

    28. Ensemble Inequivalence in Random Graphs
      J. Barré, B. Gonçalves
      Physica A 386, 212 (2007), arXiv:cond-mat/0705.2385

    29. Monte Carlo Study of the Elastic Interaction in Heteroepitaxial Growth
      B. Gonçalves, J.F.F. Mendes
      Phys. Rev. E 65, 061602 (2002), arXiv:cond-mat/0204253

    PEER-REVIEWED PROCEEDINGS

    1. The Role of Information Diffusion in the Evolution of Social Networks
      L. Weng, J. Ratkiewicz, N. Perra, B. Gonçalves, C. Castillo, F. Bonchi, R. Schifanella, F. Menczer, A. Flammini
      Accepted to KDD'13, (2013), arXiv: 1302.6276

    2. Dynamical Classes of Collective Attention in Twitter
      J. Lehmann, B. Gonçalves, J. J. Ramasco, C. Cattuto
      WWW'2012, 251 (2012), arXiv: 1111.1896

    3. Predicting the Political Alignment of Twitter Users
      M. Conover, B. Gonçalves, J. Ratkiewicz, A. Flammini, F. Menczer
      Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, 192 (2011)

    4. Detecting and Tracking Political Abuse in Social Media
      J. Ratkiewicz, M. Conover, M. Meiss, B. Gonçalves, A. Flammini, F. Menczer
      Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 297 (2011)

    5. Political Polarization on Twitter
      M. Conover, J. Ratkiewicz, , J. M. Francisco, B. Gonçalves, A. Flammini, F. Menczer
      Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 89 (2011)

    6. Truthy: Mapping the Spread of Astroturf in Microblog Streams
      J. Ratkiewicz, M. Conover, M. Meiss, B. Gonçalves, S. Patil, A. Flammini, F. Menczer
      WWW'2011, 249 (2011)

    7. Modeling Traffic on the Web Graph
      M. Meiss, B. Gonçalves, J. J. Ramasco, A. Flammini, F. Menczer
      To Appear 7th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph, LNCS 6516, 50 (2010)

    8. Agents, Bookmarks and Clicks: A topical model of Web traffic
      M. Meiss, B. Gonçalves, J. J. Ramasco, A. Flammini, F. Menczer
      Proceedings of the 21th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, 229 (2010), arXiv:1003.5327

    9. What's in a Session: Tracking Individual Behavior on the Web
      M. Meiss, J. Duncan, B. Gonçalves, J. J. Ramasco, F. Menczer
      Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia 173 (2009), arXiv:1003.5325

    10. Remembering what we like: Toward an agent-based model of Web traffic
      B. Gonçalves, M. R. Meiss, J. J. Ramasco, A. Flammini, F. Menczer
      WSDM 2009 Late Breaking Results (2009), arXiv:0901.3839

    11. Towards the characterization of individual users through Web analytics
      B. Gonçalves, J. Ramasco
      Complex Sciences 2247 (2009), arXiv:0901.0498

    MEDIA COVERAGE

    1. Idol Tweets: Mapping the Social Space with Twitter
      Scientific American -- May 12, 2013
      http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2013/05/12/idol-tweets-mapping-the-social-space-with-twitter/

    2. Andres Oppenheimer: World science map grim for Latin America
      Miami Herald -- May 11, 2013
      http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/11/3391272/andres-oppenheimer-world-science.html

    3. Appliquer la physique aux réseaux sociaux : entrevue avec Bruno Gonçalves
      Ideooweb -- May 10, 2013
      http://ideooweb.blogspot.com/2013/05/appliquer-la-physique-aux-reseaux.html

    4. The World's Leading Science Cities
      The Atlantic -- May 1, 2013
      http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/05/worlds-leading-centers-physics/5403/

    5. The Cities of Science
      Wired -- April 24, 2013
      http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/the-cities-of-science

    6. News in Brief: Twitter maps New York City, language by language
      Science News -- March 20, 2013
      http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349066/description/News_in_Brief_Twitter_maps_New_York_City_language_by_language

    7. Las lenguas de Twitter
      El Pais -- March 02, 2013
      http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/02/22/opinion/1361559730_138297.html

    8. Dr Seldon, I presume
      The Economist -- February 23, 2013
      http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21572159-data-social-networks-are-making-social-science-more-scientific-dr-seldon-i?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/dr_seldon_i_presume

    9. The Dunbar Number, From the Guru of Social Networks
      Bloomberg Businessweek -- January 10, 2013
      http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-10/the-dunbar-number-from-the-guru-of-social-networks#p1

    10. Like Crystal Balls And Exit Polls? You Will Love Twitter User Data Then
      Science 2.0 -- September 3, 2012
      http://www.science20.com/news_articles/crystal_balls_and_exit_polls_you_will_love_twitter_user_data_then-93594

    11. La nouvelle boule de cristal : l'exploitation des données de Twitter
      Express.be -- August 30, 2012
      http://www.express.be/business/fr/technology/la-nouvelle-boule-de-cristal-lexploitation-des-donnees-de-twitter/175592.htm

    12. STUDIU: Viitorul poate fi prezis cu ajutorul Twitter
      Realitatea.net -- August 30, 2012
      http://www.realitatea.net/studiu-viitorul-poate-fi-prezis-cu-ajutorul-twitter_998336.html

    13. Microblogging becoming popular mainstream media in Sacramento
      Examiner -- August 29, 2012
      http://www.examiner.com/article/microblogging-becoming-popular-mainstream-media-sacramento

    14. Scientists Can Predict Outcome Of TV Talent Shows Using Twitter
      Newsroom America -- August 29, 2012
      http://www.newsroomamerica.com/story/273363.html

    15. Twitter Data Crunching: The New Crystal Ball
      Science News Online -- August 29, 2012
      http://www.sciencenewsline.com/articles/2012082917330022.html

    16. Twitter As “Crystal Ball”: Predicting Presidential Elections
      RedOrbit -- August 29, 2012
      http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1112684236/twitter-election-results-crystal-ball-082912/

    17. Twitter data crunching: The new crystal ball
      Phys.org -- August 29, 2012
      http://phys.org/news/2012-08-twitter-crunching-crystal-ball.html

    18. Is there a limit on how many friends you can have?
      Business Insider -- August 11, 2012
      http://www.businessinsider.com/is-there-a-limit-on-how-many-friends-you-can-have-2012-8

    19. Tweets helped team predict ‘Idol’ winner
      Boston Globe -- May 28, 2012
      http://bostonglobe.com/business/2012/05/27/calling-idol-winner-its-tweets/MaF2iVcg3fm6DLo6WccOPJ/story.html

    20. Scientists Predicted American Idol Winner Using Twitter Data
      Physics Central -- May 24, 2012
      http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=6816045463809390718

    21. How Twitter helped predict Phillip Phillips' American Idol victory
      Interaksyon -- May 24, 2012
      http://www.interaksyon.com/article/32797/how-twitter-helped-predict-phillip-phillips-american-idol-victory

    22. Why Phillip Phillips won American Idol Season 11
      Rappler -- May 24, 2012
      http://www.rappler.com/world/5864-why-phillip-phillips-won-american-idol

    23. US conservatives gain upper hand in Twitter politics
      New Scientist -- May 9, 2012
      http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/05/us-conservatives-gain-upper-ha.html

    24. Hermes’ Dirty Little Trick
      Science 2.0 -- Mar 10, 2012
      http://www.science20.com/room_212/%E2%80%A6_hermes%E2%80%99_dirty_little_trick-87863

    25. Technology is Destroying the Quality of Human Interaction
      The Bottom Line -- Jan 24, 2012
      http://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2012/01/technology-is-destroying-the-quality-of-human-interaction

    26. No Matter What Twitter Says, You've Got No More Than 150 Friends
      Motherboard -- Jan 20, 2012
      http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/20/no-matter-what-twitter-says-you-ve-got-no-more-than-150-friends

    27. Decoding Our Chatter
      Wall Street Journal -- Oct 1, 2011
      http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204138204576598942105167646.html

    28. Social Scientists Wade Into the Tweet Stream
      Science News & Analysis -- Sept 30, 2011
      http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6051/1814.full

    29. Redes sociales, ¿para hacer amigos?
      El Mañana -- Jun 30, 2011
      http://www.elmanana.com.mx/notas.asp?id=242833

    30. Social networking 'utopia' isn't coming
      CNN -- Jun 27, 2011
      http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/27/limits.social.networking.taylor/

    31. Dunbar's number rules the Twitterverse
      ABC -- Jun 7, 2011
      http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/06/07/3236451.htm?site=science&topic=tech

    32. Sur les réseaux sociaux, difficile d'avoir plus de 200 amis
      Le Monde -- Jun 4, 2011
      http://www.lemonde.fr/week-end/article/2011/06/04/sur-les-reseaux-sociaux-difficile-d-avoir-plus-de-200-amis_1530170_1477893.html

    33. La taille du cerveau limite le nombre d'amis sur les réseaux sociaux
      Sud Ouest -- Jun 1, 2011
      http://www.sudouest.fr/2011/06/01/la-taille-du-cerveau-limite-le-nombre-d-amis-sur-les-reseaux-sociaux-414644-4725.php

    34. It's Science: You Can Only Really Follow 150 People on Twitter
      Time Magazine, Techland -- Jun 1, 2011
      http://techland.time.com/2011/06/01/its-science-you-can-only-really-follow-150-people-on-twitter/

    35. Human brain limits Twitter friends
      MSNBC -- Jun 1, 2011
      http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/01/6763994-human-brain-limits-twitter-friends

    36. Las redes sociales y la amistad
      La Capital -- Jun 1, 2011
      http://www.lacapital.com.ar/canales/tecno/contenidos/2011/06/01/Noticia_0001.html

    37. Online relationships mirror real life
      CorpComms -- May 31, 2011
      http://www.corpcommsmagazine.co.uk/news/1476-online-relationships-mirror-real-life

    38. Even With Social Networking, Do Our Brains Limit Our Number Of Friends?
      Psychology Today -- May 31, 2011
      http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/adventures-in-old-age/201105/even-social-networking-do-our-brains-limit-our-number-friends

    39. Human Brain Places Limit On Twitter Friends
      Slashdot -- May 31, 2011
      http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/05/31/0159228/Human-Brain-Places-Limit-On-Twitter-Friends

    40. Study: Friends Hard to Keep Up with on Twitter, Facebook
      PCWorld -- May 31, 2011
      http://www.pcworld.com/article/228980/study_friends_hard_to_keep_up_with_on_twitter_facebook.html

    41. El cerebro humano solo puede reconocer hasta 150 amigos
      El Comercio -- May 30, 2011
      http://elcomercio.pe/tecnologia/766014/noticia-cerebro-humano-solo-puede-reconocer-hasta-150-amigos

    42. Human Brain Limits Twitter Friends To 150
      TechnologyReview.com -- May 30, 2011
      http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26824/

    43. You Want to be Happier? Use Twitter
      BNet -- Mar 30, 2011
      http://www.bnet.com/blog/business-research/you-want-to-be-happier-use-twitter/1182

    44. Twitter Users Congregate Based on Mood, Study Says
      NYTimes Bits -- Mar 16, 2011
      http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/twitter-users-congregate-based-on-mood-study-says/

    45. Computational Tools Can Facilitate Analysis of Infectious Disease Outbreaks
      Infection Control Today -- Feb 7, 2011
      http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2011/02/computational-tools-can-facilitate-analysis-of-infectious-disease-outbreaks.aspx

    46. Beware Those Grassroots Tweets, They Might Be Astroturf
      Read Write Web -- Nov 2, 2010
      http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/beware_those_grassroots_tweets_they_might_be_astro.php

    47. Follow the “Truthy” Tweets to Find Twitter’s Political Spammers
      Discover Magazine -- Nov 2, 2010
      http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/02/follow-the-%E2%80%9Ctruthy%E2%80%9D-tweets-to-find-twitter%E2%80%99s-political-spammers/

    48. Bogus Grass-roots Politics on Twitter
      TechnologyReview.com -- Nov 2, 2010
      http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/26666/page1/

    49. Fake accounts astroturf Twitter
      Congress.org -- Oct 28, 2010
      http://www.congress.org/news/2010/10/28/fake_accounts_astroturf_twitter

    50. Truthy Sleuths Track Twitter 'Turfers
      Fast Company -- Oct 26, 2010
      http://www.fastcompany.com/1697973/truthy-sleuths-track-twitter-turfers

    51. The flu fighters
      Physics World -- Feb. 2, 2010
      http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/41576

    52. Pandemia: mais rápida por carro do que por avião
      Jornal I -- Dec. 28, 2009
      http://www.ionline.pt/conteudo/39363-pandemia-mais-rapida-carro-do-que-aviao

    53. Movimentos pendulares seguem padrão comum no mundo
      Ciencia Hoje -- Dec. 21, 2009
      http://www.cienciahoje.pt/index.php?oid=38152&op=all

    54. IU informaticists show new levels of refinement in predicting human mobility, epidemic spread
      Fierce Biotech -- Dec. 19, 2009
      http://www.fiercebiotech.com/press-releases/iu-informaticists-show-new-levels-refinement-predicting-human-mobility-epidemic-sprea

    55. Spread globally, infect locally: Model predicts transmission of flu
      Scientific American -- Dec. 15, 2009
      http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=spread-globally-infect-locally-mode-2009-12-15

    56. Diseases spread more by car than plane
      USA Today -- Dec. 15, 2009
      http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/12/scientists-diseases-spread-more-by-car-than-plane.html

    57. IU ranks high among colleges in 'Twitterverse'
      WTHR Indianapolis -- Oct. 16, 2009
      http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=11330721

    58. Antivirals could delay pandemic peak
      Emerging Health Threats Forum -- Sep. 18, 2009
      http://www.eht-forum.org/news.html?fileId=news090918045236&from=forum

    59. Modelo computacional faz previsão da potencial propagação da Gripe A
      Ciencia Hoje - Sept. 17, 2009
      http://www.cienciahoje.pt/index.php?oid=35053&op=all

    60. Apocalypse Not: Behind the Swine Flu Hysteria
      Wired Magazine - Jun. 22, 2009
      http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2009/st_infoporn_1707

    61. Pandemia e influenza ``suina``: A Torino si studia come evitarla
      Gravitá Zero -- Apr. 29, 2009
      http://www.gravita-zero.org/2009/04/pandemia-e-influenza-suina-torino-si.html

    62. Classifying individual users w. web analytics
      Science for SEO -- Feb. 17, 2009
      http://www.scienceforseo.com/website-analyticsmetrics/classifying-individual-users-w-web-analytics/

    63. BookRank
      Science for SEO -- Feb. 3, 2009
      http://www.scienceforseo.com/ranking-algorithms/bookrank/

    INVITED TALKS

    1. From Individual Activity to Collective Attention: Insights from Large Scale Social Network Analysis
      Emory University, Atlanta, GA -- October 26, 2012

    2. From Individual Activity to Collective Attention: Insights from Large Scale Social Network Analysis
      DTU Informatics, Copenhagen, Denmark -- September 24, 2012

    3. Activity driven modeling of dynamic networks
      University of Warwick, Warwick, England -- May 17, 2012

    4. Modeling Users Activity on Twitter Networks: Validation of Dunbars Number
      Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain -- Nov 18, 2011

    5. Towards a characterization of behavior-disease models
      Universitat de les Il les Balears, Palma de Mal lorca, Spain -- Nov 15, 2011

    6. Political Activity in Social Media
      Wellesley College, Boston, MA -- Oct 21, 2011

    7. Modelling the spatial spread of infections diseases: The GLobal Epidemic and Mobility computational model
      Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Frankfurt, Germany -- Dec 14, 2010

    8. Techno-Social Networks for the Modelling of Human Behaviour and Epidemic Spreading
      Ecole Normale Suprieure, Lyon, France -- Dec 3, 2010

    9. Complex Techno-social Networks For Epidemic Forecasting
      Centro de Fisica do Porto, Porto, Portugal -- Set 10, 2010

    10. Proxy Networks for the study of Human-Dynamics
      Universitta di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy -- Jul 8, 2010

    11. Complex Techno-social Networks For Epidemic Forecasting
      Dipartimento Di Matematica E Fisica, Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy -- Jan 7, 2010

    12. Complex Techno-social Networks For Epidemic Forecasting
      Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA -- Oct 22, 2009

    13. Complex Techno-social Networks For Epidemic Forecasting
      European Conference on Complex Systems, Conventy, UK -- Sept 15, 2009

    14. Heisenberg Spin Chains: Simulations and Experiments
      OSG Consortium All Hands Meeting, Raleigh, NC -- March 5, 2008

    15. Human Dynamics Revealed Through Web Analytics
      ETH Zurich -- July 31, 2008

    16. Human Dynamics Revealed Through Web Analytics
      Centro de Fisica do Porto, Porto, Portugal -- July 11, 2008

    17. Optimization Heuristics for Cost Function Minimization: Extremal and Hysteretic Optimization
      Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Lab -- Feb 29, 2008

    18. Hysteresis Of the Distance Dependent SK spin glass model
      Dipartimento Di Matematica E Fisica, Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy -- July 18, 2007

    TEACHING EXPERIENCE

    INFO I601 - Introduction To Complex Systems
    Assistant Instructor.    		 Fall 2009
    Physics 421 - Thermal Physics
    Physics 361 - Analytical Mechanics.
    Grader    		 Fal l 2007
    Physics 526 - Statistical Physics
    Physics 365 - Electrodynamics I.
    Grader    		 Spring 2007
    Physics 526 - Statistical Physics.
    Grader    		 Spring 2006
    Physics 503A - Classical Mechanics I
    Grader    		 Fall 2005
    Physics 142 - Introductory Physics II
    Lab section T.A. and Grader    		 Spring 2005
    Physics 141 - Introductory Physics I
    Physics 503A - Classical Mechanics
    Lab section T.A. and Grader    		 Fall 2004
    Physics 141 - Introductory Physics I
    Recitation section T.A.    		 Fall 2003

    COMPUTER SKILLS

    • Operating Systems:
      • Advanced Linux and OSX user
      • Moderately skilled Linux administrator on Red Hat, Fedora and Ubuntu systems.
    • Programming languages:
      • Extensive use of C/C++ for numerical Monte-Carlo simulations and Python for data analysis.
      • Experience with Java, Perl, Fortran and Visual Basic
    • Tools:
      • Regular use of Matlab, Mathematica and R for numerical and analytical computation.
      • Experience with FEMLAB and MySQL
      • I built a high performance low budget linux cluster using Condor and DRBL running on diskless nodes, as described in http://www.linux.com/articles/49654
      • I’ve routinely use the Condor cluster software to run my simulations and since 2006, I’ve used the Open Science Grid computing resources through Condor-G
      • Routine use of the Big Red Teragrid supercomputer

    LANGUAGES

    • Portuguese - Native speaker
    • English - Fluent
    • Italian - Conversational
    • French - Conversational
    • Spanish - Conversational - Limited
    • Japanese - Basic - Familiar (JLPT Level 4)