New project: Trustworthy complex social network analysis (TRU-NET)

Posted on October 1, 2023January 15, 2024 by frank

TRU-NET is about the development of tools, methods and algorithms for TRUstworthy analysis of complex social NETwork data. It is a particular part of one of the subprojects or “tasks” within the larger €15M SSHOC-NL research infrastructure grant lead by ODISSEI and CLARIAH.
Topics in TRU-NET would cover network data interoperability (e.g., combining online, real-world and register-based data), data temporality (e.g., analyzing historical population data), and identity disclosure risk in social (network) data.
The larger subproject runs from 2024 to 2028 and is led by Frank Takes (Leiden University) and Eelke Heemskerk (University of Amsterdam). Positions (PhD and postdoc) are expected to open early 2024, and will be based respectively at the computer science and social science department of the two universities involved.

ABOUT ME
I am an associate professor at LIACS, the computer science and AI department of Faculty of Science of Leiden University. My research interest is in network science, in parrticular methods and algorithms for knowledge discovery from (social) network data, with applications in economics, science studies and computational social science.

Currently, I am head of the Leiden Computational Network Science research group, academic co-director of the Dutch POPNET research platform for population-scale social network analysis and co-chair of the Dutch Network Science Society. I am director of education of the LIACS bachelor programmes Informatica (Computer Science) and Data Science & Artificial Intelligence. I teach courses on competitive programming and social network analysis.

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Associate Professor & Director of Education @LIACS @UniLeiden ▪︎ Co-Director @POPNET_research ▪︎ Co-Chair @NetSciNL ▪︎ Network Science ▪︎ Algorithms ▪︎ SNA

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Shane Mannion @shane_e_m ·

23 Jan

A preprint of our latest paper "Fast degree-preserving rewiring of complex networks" with @PadraigMacC @saxena_akrati and @franktakes is now available here https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12047. Thanks to my co-authors for all of the hard work involved!

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Dutch Network Science Society @netscinl ·

15 Jan

In the afternoon of January 30, @UvA_IAS, DIEP and @NetSciNL organize a symposium at @tudelft from 15-18h, featuring talks by Shlomo Havin, @MingCao10 and Han van der Maas. See https://www.netsci.nl/dutch-netsci-ias-and-diep-symposium-2024 for details! (organized by @mkitsak @HuijuanWang et al.)

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Mark van der Loo | @markvanderloo@mathstodon.xyz @markvdloo ·

12 Jan

Proud to announce that our paper with (X-less) Rachel de Jong and @franktakes on anonymity in complex networks has appeared in Scientific Reports! cc @LIACS @statistiekcbs #officialstatistics

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Frank Takes @franktakes ·

18 Nov

Thanks @aespinosarada and @FranciscaOrtizR! The commentary was very nice to read, and a good reminder of how there are still so many cool things to do in @POPNET_research :)

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