Publications

Recent projects

• Rapid assessment of disaster damage using social media activity. Y. Kryvasheyeu, H. Chen, N. Obradovich, E. Moro, P. Van Hentenryck, J. Fowler, and M. Cebrian, Science Advances 2, e1500779 (2016). Science Magazine, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, Michigan Daily, Die Welt, Deutschlandfunk, Dagens Nyheter, Science News, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Altmetric. Dataset available at Dryad Digital Repository.
• Beyond contagion: Reality mining reveals complex patterns of social influence. A. Alshamsi, F. Pianesi, B. Lepri, A. Pentland, I. Rahwan (2015).  PLOS ONE. 10(8): e0135740.
• Performance of Social Network Sensors during Hurricane Sandy. Kryvasheyeu Y, Chen H, Moro E, Van Hentenryck P, Cebrian M (2015). PLoS ONE 10(2): e0117288. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117288.
• Misery Loves Company: Happiness and Communication in the City. A. Alshamsi, E. Awad, M. Almehrezi, V. Babushkin, P.-J. Chang, Z. Shoroye, A.-P. Toth, I. Rahwan (2015). EPJ Data Science. 4:7.
• Social Media Fingerprints of Unemployment. Llorente A, Garcia-Herranz M, Cebrian M, Moro E (2015). PLoS ONE 10(5): e0128692. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128692
• Competitive dynamics between criminals and law enforcement explains the super-linear scaling of crime in cities. S. Banerjee, P. Hentenryck, M. Cebrian. Palgrave Communications 1, Article number: 15022 (2015).
• Quantifying long-term evolution of intra-urban spatial interactions. L. Sun, J.G.Jin, K.W. Axhausen, D. Lee, M. Cebrian. 2014.DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.1089

Selected projects

For a comprehensive list of publications, check team members’ Google Scholar pages: Manuel Cebrian, Yury Kryvasheyeu and Caron (Haohui) Chen.

• Time-critical social mobilization, G. Pickard, W. Pan, I. Rahwan, M. Cebrian, R. Crane, A. Madan, and A. Pentland, Science 334(6055):509-512 (2011). New York Times, Rachel Madow, MSNBC, Popular Mechanics,MIT News, IEEE Multimedia, Science News.
• Urban characteristics attributable to density-driven tie formation, W. Pan, G. Ghoshal, C. Krumme, M. Cebrian, and A. Pentland, Nature Communications 4, 1961 (2013). Featured in PNAS Core Concepts in Computational Social Science, New York Times, The Atlantic Cities, The Economist, Smithsonian, MIT News. See related work on Urban Crime, covered by CIO, and our analysis the capacity of cities to Organize Events.
• Limits of social mobilization, A. Rutherford, M. Cebrian, S. Dsouza, E. Moro, A. Pentland, and I. Rahwan, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 110(16):6281-6286 (2013). NBC, Yahoo! News,Arabian Gazette, La Repubblica.
• Using friends as sensors to detect global-scale contagious outbreaks, M. Garcia-Herranz, E. Moro, M. Cebrian, N. Christakis, and J. Fowler, PLoS ONE 9(4):e92413 (2014). MIT Technology Review, Yale University News,Chronicle, Business Week, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Huffington Post.
• Social sensing for epidemiological behavior change, A. Madan, M. Cebrian, D. Lazer, and A. Pentland, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) pp. 291-300, Copenhagen, Denmark (2010). Ginger.io, Nature News.
• Reflecting on the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge, J. Tang, M. Cebrian, N. Giacobe, H-W. Kim, T. Kim, and D. Wickert, Communications of the ACM 54(4):78-85 (2011).
• Global manhunt pushes the limits of social mobilization, I. Rahwan, S. Dsouza, A. Rutherford, V. Naroditskiy, J. McInerney, M. Venanzi, N. Jennings, and M. Cebrian, Computer 46(4):68-75 (2013). Scientific American,MIT Technology Review, New Scientist, Wired.
• Limited communication capacity unveils strategies for human interaction, G. Miritello, R. Lara, M. Cebrian, and E. Moro, Scientific Reports 3, 1950 (2013). Seminar at UCLA’s Mathematics of Social Learning, Antena 3.