Why do Americans purchase more firearms after mass shootings? Professor Maurizio Porfiri appeared as a guest on Data Science Conversations podcast and talked about his research ulitizing time series analysis […]
The role of the COVID-19 pandemic in the 2020 U.S. presidential elections
Can a pandemic affect the way people vote? Professors Maurizio Porfiri, Manuel Ruiz Marín, and Pietro De Lellis applied a spatial, information-theoretic approach to analyze how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced […]
NYU Tandon covers research on the effects of waning vaccine immunity
Postdoctoral researcher Agnieszka Truszkowska, with Profs. Maurizio Porfiri, Zhong-Ping Jiang, Alessandro Rizzo, and collaborators Prof. Sachit Butail of Northern Illinois University, Prof. Emanuele Caroppo of Azienda Sanitaria Locale Roma 2, […]
Detection of Influential Nodes in Network Dynamical Systems
How can we infer which birds lead a flock without performing experiments, but just from recording their behavior? How can we understand the vulnerable parts of a power grid that […]
Emotional Contagion in Zebrafish
Transmission of emotions from one individual to another has been shown in many animal species, other than humans. Does emotional contagion occur also in fish? This is the question that […]