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Preprints
  • Networks of amenities reveal universal homophily and heterophily across global cities
    Preprint arXiv:2605.08622 (2026)
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  • Hypergraph backboning
    Preprint arXiv:2606.00893 (2026)
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  • Scalable inference of spatial regions and temporal signatures from time series
    Preprint arXiv:2605.05008 (2026)
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  • Heterogeneous Interaction Network Analysis (HINA): A New Learning Analytics Approach for Modelling, Analyzing, and Visualizing Complex Interactions in Learning Processes
    Preprint arXiv:2601.06771 (2026)
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Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
  • Information theory for hypergraph similarity
    Science Advances (2026)
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  • Belief propagation for finite networks using a symmetry-breaking source node
    Physical Review Research (2026)
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  • Learning when to rank: Estimation of partial rankings from sparse, noisy comparisons
    Communications Physics (2026)
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  • Normalized mutual information is a biased measure for classification and community detection
    Nature Communications 16, 11268 (2025)
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  • Structural reducibility of hypergraphs
    Physical Review Letters [Editor's Suggestion] 135, 247401 (2025)
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  • Transfer entropy for finite data
    Physical Review E [Letter, Editor's Suggestion] 112, L052304 (2025)
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  • Fast nonparametric inference of network backbones for weighted graph sparsification
    Physical Review X 15, 031013 (2025)
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  • HINA: A Learning Analytics Tool for Heterogenous Interaction Network Analysis in Python
    Journal of Open Source Software 10, 8299 (2025)
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  • Mutual information and the encoding of contingency tables
    Physical Review E [Editor's Suggestion] 110, 064306 (2024)
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  • Network mutual information measures for graph similarity
    Communications Physics 7, 335 (2024)
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  • Bayesian regionalization of urban mobility networks
    Physical Review Research 6, 033307 (2024)
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  • PANINIpy: Package of Algorithms for Nonparametric Inference with Networks In Python
    Journal of Open Source Software 9, 7312 (2024)
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  • Network compression with configuration models and the minimum description length
    Physical Review E 110, 034305 (2024)
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  • Inference of dynamic hypergraph representations in temporal interaction data
    Physical Review E 109, 054306 (2024)
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  • Identifying hubs in directed networks
    Physical Review E [Editor's Suggestion] 109, 034310 (2024)
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  • Improved estimates for the number of non-negative integer matrices with given row and column sums
    Proceedings of the Royal Society A 480, 20230470 (2024)
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  • Characterizing network circuity among heterogeneous urban amenities
    Journal of the Royal Society Interface 20, 20230296 (2023)
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  • Heterogeneous message passing for heterogeneous networks
    Physical Review E 108, 034310 (2023)
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  • Implicit models, latent compression, intrinsic biases, and cheap lunches in community detection
    Physical Review E 108, 024309 (2023)
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  • Compressing network populations with modal networks reveals structural diversity
    Communications Physics 6, 148 (2023)
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  • Spatial regionalization based on optimal information compression
    Communications Physics 5, 249 (2022)
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  • Connecting intercity mobility with urban welfare
    PNAS Nexus 1, pgac178 (2022)
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  • Impact of urban structure on infectious disease spreading
    Scientific Reports 12, 3816 (2022)
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  • Representative community divisions of networks
    Communications Physics 5, 40 (2022)
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  • Clustering of heterogeneous populations of networks
    Physical Review E 105, 014312 (2022)
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  • The friendship paradox in real and model networks
    Journal of Complex Networks 9, cnab011 (2021)
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  • Belief propagation for networks with loops
    Science Advances 7, eabf1211 (2021)
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  • Integrating online and offline data for crisis management during COVID
    Scientific Reports 11, 8514 (2021)
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  • Information theoretic network approach to socioeconomic correlations
    Physical Review Research 2, 043212 (2020)
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  • Robust design from systems physics
    Scientific Reports 10, 14334 (2020)
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  • Mixing patterns in interdisciplinary co-authorship networks at multiple scales
    Scientific Reports 10, 7731 (2020)
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  • Balance in signed networks
    Physical Review E 99, 012320 (2019)
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  • From the betweenness centrality in street networks to structural invariants in random planar graphs
    Nature Communications 9, 2501 (2018)
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