We at the NetSciX 2025 conference in Indore, India

November 24, 2024 network science
We are excited to share that Dr. Akrati Saxena will be present at the NetSciX Conference in India! 🌐✨ We will also be presenting our works: 1. Fairness Metrics for Community Detection Methods in Social Networks, Elze de Vink and Akrati Saxena 2. Fairness-aware Analysis of Centrality Measures in Social…

Find us at the Complex Networks 2024 conference in Istanbul

November 24, 2024 network science
At the 13th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications in Istanbul, Turkey, held from Dec 9 to Dec 12, 2024, the Computational Network Science (CNS) group will also be presenting its latest findings: 1. Group Fairness Metrics for Community Detection Methods in Social Networks, Elze de Vink and…

Two open PhD positions in Network Science / Social Network Analysis & Fairness

July 17, 2024 network science
The group currently has two open PhD positions. The first position (deadline: September 1, 2024) is with Frank Takes and Eelke Heemskerk at the University of Amsterdam and deals with Population-scale Networks. It is part of the newly set up inter-university Platform for Large-scale Analysis of NETworks Netherlands (PLANET-NL) computational social science initiative:…

Find us at the Sunbelt 2024 conference in Edinburgh

June 22, 2024 network science
At the 44th INSNA International Conference on Social Network Analysis (Sunbelt) in Edinburgh, Scotland UK, held from June 24 to June 30, 2024, several people affiliated with the POPNET project on Population-scale Social Network Analysis as well as the Leiden Computational Network Science (CNS) group, will give talks. An overview…

Alberto Ceria starts as a Postdoc in CNS group

November 15, 2023 network science
Alberto Ceria focuses on combining data science and statistical physics methods to study complex interconnected systems, such as social interactions among individuals. His main research focus is characterizing and modeling systems with time-varying and/or group interactions among their constituents, such as academic collaborations and social gatherings, to better understand their underlying…

Hanshu Yu starts as PhD candidate

October 1, 2023 network science
Hanshu Yu is a PhD student in the Computational Network Science Lab. His main research interest is in the field of network science, particularly in multi-disciplinary topics. His research focuses on algorithmic fairness in social networks. In his free time he likes to cook, play soccer and go hiking.