Boleslaw K. Szymanski
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- Lally 204 • RPI • 110 8th St. • Troy NY 12180
Dr. Szymanski's research interests span 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, communities in social networks, and large-scale parallel and distributed computing and simulation. Dr. Szymanski led the development of DSIM, an innovative discrete event simulation system, SENSE for sensor network simulation, VOGUE for innovative HMM models and GANXiS and SpeakEasy algorithms for community detection.
The three most recent Ph.D. Graduates
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- Panagiotis Karampourniotis (Ph.D. Defense, June, 2017)
- The Impact of Heterogeneity in Thresholds of Opinion Dynamics, and in Crowd Decision-Making
- Postdoc, IBM, Inc., Boston, MA
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- Xin Lin (Ph.D. Defense, March, 2017)
- Predictability Limit of Cascades in Interconnected Models
- Financial software engineer, Bloomberg, Inc., New York, NY
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- Herbert O. Holzbauer (Ph.D. Defense, November, 2016)
- How Embedding of Social Ties in Space Impacts Human Behavior
- Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Projects
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SCNARC
Dr. Szymanski is a director of the Social Cognitive Network Academic Research Center 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.
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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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MilkyWay@home
A research project using Internet-connected computers to do research in determining the evolution of the Milky way galaxy. The newest results are summarized here
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Mutual Exclusion Algorithm
Algorithm with linear wait that solved the open problem posed by Lamport in 1978.
Current Postdocs
- Noemi Derzsy
Current Graduate Students
- Konstantin Kuzmin
- Xiang Niu
- Xiaoyan Lu
- Ashwin Bahulkar
- Miao Qi
- Matthew V. Mohr
Current Positions
- Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
- Professor of Cognitive Science
- Director, Social Cognitive Network Academic Research Center, NS CTA
- Director, Network Science and Technology Center (NeST)
- Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Board Member, Network Science Society
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
- Editorial Board, Computational Methods in Science and Technology (CMST)
- Editorial Board, Computer Science Journal
Courses
| Fall 2017 | |
| CSCI-6250/4250 | Frontiers of Network Science |
| Fall 2016 | |
| CSCI-6250/4250 | Frontiers of Network Science |