Selected Publications include 'Community Formation and Detection on GitHub Collaboration Networks' (IEEE/ACM ASONAM 2021) and 'A new method for quantifying network cyclic structure to improve community detection' (Physica A, 2020).
Research Experience
Assistant Professor, Statistics at JMU since 2021.
Education
Postdoc in Data Science, 2019-2021, University of Virginia; PhD in Statistics, 2019, Kansas State University; BS in Industrial Engineering, 2006, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran.
Background
Research Interests: Developing innovative algorithms for community detection in network data and conducting inference on networks, with attention to equity and fairness in network structures and algorithms. Field: Statistics.