Boleslaw K. Szymanski
- 518 • 276 • 2714
- Lally 204 • RPI • 110 8th St. • Troy NY 12180
Dr. Szymanski's research interests spans from network science, with emphasis on social networks and computer wireless and sensor networks to analysis and design of distributed and parallel algorithms, simulation of computers, networks and biological/ecological phenomena.
His projects include dynamic processes on networks, hidden groups in social networks, sensor network protocols and algorithms, and large-scale parallel and distributed computing and simulation. Dr. Szymanski led the development of COST and DSIM, two innovative simulation systems, SENSE for sensor network simulation, GENESIS for real-time network management and VOGUE for innovative HMM models.
Papers
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Internet Measures of the Value of Citations,
Information Sciences, Elsevier, 185(1) February 2012, pp. 18-31.
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Human-centric Sensing,
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. 370(A) January 13, 2012, 176-197.
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Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities,
Physical Review E 84(1) 011130, July 2011 (8 pages).
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Network Synchronization in a Noisy Environment with Time Delays
Fundamental Limits and Trade-Offs,
highlighted in the Synopsis section of Physics August 2010,
Phys. Rev. Lett. vol.105, 068701 2010, (4 pages)
Ph.D. Graduates
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- Apirak Hoonlor (graduated in 2011)
- Sequential Patterns and Temporal Patterns for Text Mining
- Current position: Assistant Professor, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Eyuphan Bulut (graduated in 2011)
- Opportunistic Routing Algorithms in Delay Tolerant Networks
- Current position: senior engineer, Mobile Internet Technology Group, Cisco, Richardson, TX
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- (graduated in 2009)Travis Desell
- Asynchronous Global Synchronization for Massive-Scale Computing
- Supervised jointly with Carlos Varela
- Received the 2010 McNaughton Award
- Current position: Assistant Professors, North Dakota University, Grand Forks, ND
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- (graduated in 2009)Qiming Lu
- Propagation, Cascades, and Agreement Dynamics in Complex Communication and Social Networks
- Supervised jointly with Gyorgy Korniss
- Current position: Researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, IL
Projects
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SCNARC
Dr. Szymanski is a director of the Social Cognitive Network Academic Research Center, one of the four Centers funded by the ARL Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance. SCNARC research focuses on social network analysis, network discovery, network dynamics, trust and cognitive aspect of social networks. SCNARC has RPI as leading member, and Northeastern University, IBM Corp. and CUNY as members as well as collaborations with teams at fthe following unviersities: MIT, CMU, Northwestern, Indiana, Notre Dame and Virginia.
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ITA
A collaborative partnership between the US Army Research Laboratories, the UK Ministry of Defense and a consortium of industries and universities in the US and UK.
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SENSE
An efficient and powerful sensor network simulator that is also easy to use.
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MetPetDB
A database for metamorphic petrology being designed as part of the National Cyberinfrastructure Initiative.
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MilkyWay@home
A research project using Internet-connected computers to do research in determining the evolution of the Milkyway galaxy.
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OOP in Fortran 90
Research in object-oriented programming using the Fortran 90 programming language.
Current StudentsCurrent Positions
- Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
- Director, Social Cognitive Network Academic Research Center, part of NS CTA, funded by the ARL
- Director, Network Science and Technology Center (NeST)
- Foreign Member, National Academy of Science (Poland)
- Editor-in-Chief, Scientific Programming
- Editorial Board, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
- Editorial Board, Computing and Informatics
- Editorial Board, Computer Science Journal
Courses
| Fall 2011 | |
| CSCI-6140 | Computer Operating Systems |
| Fall 2010 | |
| 66-614 | Computer Operating Systems |
| Research + Dissertation | |
| Fall 2009 | |
| 66-614 | Computer Operating Systems |
| Research + Dissertation | |
| Fall 2008 | |
| 66-614 | Computer Operating Systems |
| Research + Dissertation | |
| Fall 2007 | |
| 66-614 | Computer Operating Systems |
| 66-694 | Application of Sensor Networks |
| Fall 2006 | |
| 6140 | Computer Operating Systems |
| Research + Dissertation | |