Collective behavior analysis

Collaborating with Prof. Maurizio Porfiri, head of the Dynamical Systems group at the Dynamical Systems Laboratory of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, novel methodologies for the detection and classification of collective behavior in complex networks from raw video data have been established. The effectiveness of the proposed approach has been tested through extensive numerical simulations and then confirmed through an experimental study on collective behaviors across animal species.

Selected publications

• P. DeLellis, G. Polverino, G. Ustuner, N. Abaid, S. Macri, E. M. Bollt, M. Porfiri, “Collective behavior across animal species”, Nature Scientific Reports, 4(3723), 2014.

• P. DeLellis, M. Porfiri, E. M. Bollt, “Topological analysis of group fragmentation in multiagent systems”, Physical Review E, 87(2), 022818, 2013.