Advisory Board and Editors Network Science & Online Social Networks
Licia Capra
Licia is a Reader (Associate Professor) in the Dept of Computer Science at University College London. She conducts research in the area of ubiquitous computing. Specific topics include: crowd-sourcing and crowd-sensing, urban computing, location-based services, recommender systems, data mining for development. The aim of her research is to provide developers with abstractions and algorithm to ease application development, and end users with better experiences when interacting with technology.
Julieta Carril
Dr. Julieta Carril is a researcher at the CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council), Argentina. Working at the Laboratory of Histology and Descriptive, Experimental and Comparative Embryology (LHYEDEC), Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, National University of La Plata, Argentina. Her research focuses on the role of developmental reprogramming processes in the morphological evolution of Neornithes birds. Dr. Carril is also a member of the Avian Biomorphodynamic Research Group (ABRG)
Ciro Cattuto
Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Turin, Italy. Principal Scientist and Research Area Coordinator at ISI Foundation, Italy.
Interested in Data & Network Science, Computational Social Science, Web Science, wearable sensors, Digital Epidemiology. SocioPatterns.org co-founder. Past: Sapienza University of Roma, Centro Enrico Fermi, RIKEN Frontier Research Systems, University of Michigan, University of Perugia.
Vinton Cerf
Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He is the past President of ACM and is a member of the National Science Board.
Cerf has received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Tunisian National Medal of Science, the Japan Prize, the Charles Stark Draper award, the ACM Turing Award, the Legion d’Honneur and 24 honorary degrees.
Jennifer T Chayes
Chayes is a leader in the field of network science, with applications in computer science, economics, biology and math. She is founder and Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England and NYC, and was previously Professor of Math at UCLA. She received an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship and the ABI Women of Vision Leadership Award. She was a member of the IAS Princeton, is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, AMS and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Edith Cohen
Edith Cohen is (visiting) full professor at Tel Aviv University. Until 2014 she was a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Silicon Valley) and between 1991 and 2012 she was at AT&T Labs. She received a Ph.D in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1991. Her research interests include algorithms, mining and analysis of massive data, optimization, and computer networking. She is a winner of the IEEE ComSoc 2007 Bennett prize, and an author of 20+ patents and 100+ publications.
James Curley
Associate Professor, Psychology Department, University of Texas at Austin (2017-). Formerly, Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Columbia University (2012-2017), Research Associate, Columbia University (2007-2012), Post-doctoral Researcher, Sub-Department of Animal Behavior, University of Cambridge (2003-2007), PhD, Sub-Department of Animal Behavior, University of Cambridge (1999-2003).
My current research interests are the neurobiological basis of social behavior in groups, as well as the long-term plastic changes in the brain and peripheral physiology that occur as a consequence of social experience. I am also interested in statistical methods for the study of social hierarchies and networks.
David De Roure
David De Roure is Professor of e-Research at University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre. He is a Strategic Advisor to the Economic and Social Research Council in the area of Social Media Data. Working on the intersection of humanities, social science, and computer science, David conducts research on social machines, computational musicology, large scale sociotechnical systems, cyber security and social computing.
Shi Dong
Shi Dong is currently a Professor (Graduate Supervisor) at School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, China. Professor, Master's advisor, postdoctoral fellow, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Washington University, St. Louis, USA.
His current research focuses on network security, pattern recognition, deep learning, blockchain, Internet of things, edge computing, including network measurement, network behavior analysis, network traffic identification, etc., deep learning in the field of network security applications, as well as the privacy protection of edge computing.
Prof. Dong has published more than 60 papers in related academic journals and conferences (about 35 papers by first author or correspondence author, and about 20 papers by top SCI journals and top international conferences in JCR I) , and granted 9 patents for invention. He is a reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking(SCI journal); IEEE ACCESS (SCI journal); Computer Networks(SCI journal); IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering(SCI journal); IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics(SCI journal);IEEE Internet of Things Journal(SCI journal);Journal of Internet Technology (SCI journal); Computers & Electrical Engineering (SCI journal); KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (SCI journal); Journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University and Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
He is an associate Editor for IEEE Systems Journal(SCI index), Physical Communication(SCI index), IET Wireless Sensor Systems(EI index), IET Networks(EI index), IEICE Transactions on Communications(SCI index), Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research(SCI index) and International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools(SCI index) and member of the Editorial Board for International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, Progress in Human Computer Interaction, Journal of Modern Mechanical Engineering and Technology, Journal of Cyber Security Technology, Acta Scientific Computer Sciences, Digital Technologies Research and Applications, International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (IJSIP).
Prof. Dong was awarded the Third Prize of Henan Science and Technology Progress Award (2018) and the academic technology leader of Henan Education Department (2019) . He is currently the leader of the innovative network and Information Security Science and technology team of Henan Province, the leader of the provincial key discipline of computer application technology of Henan Province, a senior member of the Wuhan Textile University, and a supervisor of the master's degree students of the Hubei University of Technology.
Charles P. Elkan
Professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego, and also Amazon Fellow.
Massimiliano Fasi
Massimiliano Fasi is a Lecturer in Software Engineering at the School of Computing of the University of Leeds. He obtained a PhD from the University of Manchester in 2019, and has held positions in the UK (University of Manchester and Durham University) and in Sweden (Örebro University).
His research interests include scientific computing, computer arithmetic, and numerical analysis, with particular focus on numerical linear algebra.
José Manuel Galán
José M. Galán is a Professor at the Department of Management Engineering. He received a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad de Valladolid and a Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Civil Engineering from the Universidad de Burgos. His research has focused on computational modelling and simulation, especially on agent-based modelling. He initially combined analytical approaches together with simulation and, more recently, with network theory and statistical and machine learning. Former president of the Complex Sociotechnical Systems Association. Member of the European Social Simulation Association and the INSISOC research group.