New Project on Anonymity in Networks

October 15, 2021 News
How anonymous is an individual in a social network, based on the structural position of this person in a network, as well as the person’s descriptive attributes? That’s the central question studied in the ANO-NET project, which runs from 2021 to 2025 and is jointly funded by Statistics Netherlands (CBS)…

Talk on Population-scale Social Network Analysis at IC2S2 2021

August 1, 2021 News
On July 30, I give a keynote talk at the 7th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2021) with the title “Population-scale Social Network Analysis”; describing some of the fundamental challenges in the recently started POPNET project, as well as some first early empirical results on the small-world structure…

New project on Population Scale Social Network Analysis (POPNET)

June 3, 2020 News
In the coming 5 years, Statistics Netherlands (CBS), Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) will work together on a project with the aim of doing population scale social network analysis. This entails not only cutting edge computational social science research into large-scale network data, but also necessary research…

New project on Predicting Crime in Dark Web Forum Networks

May 1, 2020 News
A new 2-year project on the prediction will start on September 1, 2020 and is concerned with predicting crime from dark web forum networks. The project is a collaboration between the Dutch National Police as part of the “Politie en Wetenschap” funding scheme, Leiden University (Faculty of Law, Criminology and…