Events
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRED
International Symposium on Science of Science
Library of Congress, Washington D.C., March 2016
Quantifying Science, CCS'15 Satellite
Tempe, Arizona, October 1, 2015
CompleNet, 6th Workshop on Complex Networks
New York City, March 2015
ImBig, CIKM 2014 Workshop on Interactive Mining for Big Data
Shanghai, China, November 2014
Quantifying Success, ECCS’13
Barcelona, Spain, September 2013
Science of Success Symposia
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2013.
SocialD - A Conversation on Social Dynamics, NetSci’13
Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2013
Third Conference on the Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets and Networks (NetMob 2013)
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2013
Second Conference on the Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets and Networks (NetMob 2011)
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2011
International Workshop on Finding Patterns of Human Behavior in NEtwork and MObility Data (NEMO, ECML/PKDD 2011)
Athens, Greece. September 2011
TALKS
Seminar, IIT Mathematics Department
Chicago, IL, February 2019
Social Science Foo Camp
Invited Speaker
Facebook, Menlo Park, CA, February 2019
Seminar, Facebook Core Data Science
Menlo Park, CA, February 2019
Seminar, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Stanford, CA, January 2019
Seminar, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative
January 2019
Seminar, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, October 2018
Seminar, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, October 2018
London Speaker Series, Nature
Keynote
August 2018
Big Scholarly Data, ACM SIGKDD Conference On Knowledge Discovery And Data Mining (KDD 2018)
Keynote
London, England, August 2018
Science Foo Camp (SciFoo)
Speaker
Google X, Mountain View, CA, June 23, 2018
Computational Social Science Seminar, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, May 7, 2018
Seminar, AFOSR
Arlington, VA, April 12, 2018
Seminar, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Chicago, IL, February 13, 2018
Social Science Foo Camp
Speaker
Facebook Headquarters, Menlo Park, CA, February 4, 2018
Seminar, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, January 23, 2018
NetSciX
Keynote
Hangzhou, China, January 6, 2018
Seminar, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Shanghai, China, January 2, 2018
Seminar, Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, China, December 22, 2017
Workshop on Innovation, Cities, and the Future of Work, MIT Media Lab
Speaker
Cambridge, MA, November 15-16, 2017
Seminar, The University of Illinois at Chicago Business
"Quantitative Signals Behind Success"
Chicago, IL, November 3, 2017
Radical Social Science & Humanities
Attendee
Amazon Headquarters, Seattle, WA, October 2017
Basic Research Innovation and Collaboration Center (BRICC)
Keynote
Ballston, VA, September 2017
Network Science Institute
Visiting Speaker
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, September 2017
AI & Public Policy Workshop
Keynote
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, July 2017
International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 )
Keynote
Cologne, Germany, July 2017
The 4th Satellite on Quantifying Success, NetSci 2017
Keynote
Indianapolis, IN, June 2017
IEMS Department, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, April 2017
Tippie College of Business, The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA, January 2017
WebScience@10
“Predictive Signals Behind Success”
Evanston, IL, November 2016
AAAI Symposium
Invited Speaker
Washington, D.C., November 2016
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, September 2016
Science Foo Camp, Google
Invited Attendee
Mountain View, CA, July 2016
Symposium on Research Methodologies in the Big Data Era (SRMBD 2016)
Keynote
State College, PA, May 2016
NIH Grand Challenges Workshop, NIH
Invited Panelist
March 2016
University of Notre Dame
South Bend, IN, March 2016
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, February 2016
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, February 2016
NICO, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, February 2016
Satellite at Conference on Complex Systems
Invited Speaker
Tempe, AZ, October 2015
Big Data Social Science Seminar, Penn State University
Invited Speaker
University Park, PA, October 2015
AFOSR and BRICC
Keynote
Arlington, VA, July 2015
International Conference on Computational Social Science
Finland, June 2015
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT, April 2015
Metaknowledge Spring Workshop, University of Chicago
Invited Speaker
Chicago, IL, March 2015
The 10th Chinese Conference on Complex Networks
"Quantifying Long-Term Scientific Impact"
Changsha, China, October 17, 2014
The First Alibaba Forum on Complexity
"Information Sciences and Technology in the Era of Big Data"
Alibaba, Hangzhou, China, October 15, 2014
The First Alibaba Forum on Complexity
Invited Speaker
Alibaba, Hangzhou, China, October 2014
AFOSR
Invited Speaker
Arlington, VA, August 2014
Metaknowledge Summer Meeting
Invited
Pacific Grove, CA, August 2014
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, April 28, 2014
Physical Sciences Seminar Series, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY, April 11, 2014
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, February 24, 2014
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, February 14, 2014
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ, January 21, 2014
Services Research Seminar Series, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY, November 7, 2013
Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN2013), NYU Stern
"Predicting Scientific Success"
New York, NY, October 4, 2013
NetSci 2013: International Workshop and Conference on Network Science
"The Science of Success"
Copenhagen, Denmark, June 7, 2013
Beijing Jiaotong University
Beijing, China, May 28, 2013
JointNet Seminar, Northeastern University
Boston, MA, April 11, 2013
FuturICT Workshop, MIT Media Lab
"The Science of Impact"
Cambridge, MA, February 13, 2013
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY, December 12, 2012
MIT Media Lab
Cambridge, MA, November 27, 2012
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY, November 16, 2012
NetSci 2012: International Workshop and Conference on Network Science
"Modeling the Dynamics of Impact"
Chicago, IL, June 20, 2012
* Best Student Talk
American Physical Society March Meeting 2012
"Information Spreading in Context"
Boston, MA, February 27, 2012
Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN2011), NYU Stern
"Human Mobility and Social Networks"
New York, NY, October 1, 2011
Professional Interest Community (PIC) of KDD, Mobile, and AI, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
"Human Mobility and Social Networks"
Hawthorne, NY, September 16, 2011
Semantic Analysis and Integration Department, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
"A Phase Diagram of Watson"
Hawthorne, NY, September 14, 2011
Department Seminar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
"Team Performance and A Phase Diagram of Watson"
Hawthorne, NY, September 7, 2011
CAIDA Invited Seminar, UCSD
"Human Mobility and Social Networks"
San Diego, CA, August 25, 2011
Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2011)
"Human Mobility, Social Ties, and Link Prediction" (Poster)
San Diego, CA, August 23, 2011
NetSci 2011: International Workshop and Conference on Network Science
"Impact of Human Mobility on Social Networks"
Budapest, Hungary, June 9, 2011
NetSci 2011: International Workshop and Conference on Network Science
"Determining Factors of Information Spreading Processes"
Budapest, Hungary, June 7, 2011
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks (WIDS), MIT LIDS
"Impact of Context on Information Spreading"
Cambridge, MA, May 31, 2011
Department of Physics, Northeastern University
"Quantifying and Modeling Gladwell's The Tipping Point"
Boston, MA, April 6, 2011
Proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011)
"Information Spreading in Context"
Hyderabad, India, April 1, 2011
HSCB Focus 2011: Human Social Culture Behavior Modeling Program
"Collective Response of Human Populations to Large-Scale Emergencies"
Chantilly, VA, February 9, 2011
Department Seminar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
"Understanding Information Spreading Processes"
Hawthorne, NY, August 18, 2010
SCNARC Seminar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
"Impact of Human Mobility on Social Networks"
Hawthorne, NY, May 26, 2010
NetSci 2010: International Workshop and Conference on Network Science
"Localization of Social Communication"
Boston, MA, May 13, 2010
NetSci 2010: International Workshop and Conference on Network Science
"Response of Human Populations to Large-Scale Emergencies" (Poster)
Boston, MA, May 13, 2010
Department of Physics, Northeastern University
"Response of Human Populations to Large-Scale Emergencies"
Boston, MA, April 7, 2010
* Best Speaker Prize
Research Scholarship EXPO 2010, Northeastern University
"Response of Human Populations to Large-Scale Emergencies" (Poster)
Boston, MA, March 24, 2010
American Physical Society March Meeting 2010
"Localization of Social Communication"
Portland, OR, March 15, 2010
NetSci 2009: International Workshop and Conference on Network Science
"Social Mobility of the Network Kind"
Venice, Italy, July 3, 2009
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
“Longitudinal Analysis on a Large-Scale Social Network"
Cambridge, MA, June 24, 2009
Department of Physics, Northeastern University
"How Many Real Friends Do You Have?"
Boston, MA, April 8, 2009
