CIS 4524/5524: ANALYSIS AND MODELING OF SOCIAL AND INFORMATION NETWORKS
Spring 2025

Mini Lectures Schedule


  • Prepare slides for a 17 minutes mini-lecture, including 1 minute to explain the homework question and to allow discussion
  • The first slide should include your name and email address
  • The last slide should be a homework question (homework are due 4 days after the mini-lecture by email to the presenting person):
  • By noon on Tuesday before your lecture, upload to Canvas in Reading/Presentaing Assignment → Assignment 7: Mini-lectures
  • By 5pm on presentation day, upload your presentation to Canvas Discussions

March 20th Mini Lectures
1Abhudaya ShrivastavaMultilayer graphs
2Christos PetridisAn introduction to heterogeneous graphs and hypergraphs with a very short tutorial
3Mauricio EstrellaRepresentation learning on networks
4Heron ZiegelNetwork partitioning
5Nimish PrabhakarNetwork-based fraud detection and anomaly detection
6Surya Narayan SwamyFriend suggestion systems
7Tam TrangNetwork robustness
8Eric L ReizasDark (criminal) networks
March 27th Mini Lectures
1Ali AnsariMemes
2Jonathan ZhangLink analysis and web search
3Yi FungPercolation and network resilience
4Farnoush NilizadehAdvertising and recommendations
5Faith SangThe structure of the web
6Santhiya TheanrajEpidemics on networks
7Zuzanna Monika BakModeling the spread of health information and misinformation
8Yang ZhaoModeling of network traffic
April 3rd Mini Lectures
1Gavin MaiDegree correlation
2Nasif Fahmid PrangonCascading behavior in networks
3Chandana RSpreading phenomena in network
4Sanobar RustamovaVoting in networks
5Sitong TieA/B testing and causal inference on networks
6Paige ReeceGenerative models for networks
7Jeffin M JohnykuttyIndustrial applications of information networks