Recent preprints

• Waning immunity fails to restore a positive epidemic threshold on power–law networks (2026); Zihao He, Souvik Dhara, Debankur Mukherjee.

arXiv

• Giants through higher-order paths in random simplicial complexes (2026); Souvik Dhara, Taegyu Kang.
  arXiv

• Beyond worst-case distortions: Distance-preserving embeddings in inhomogeneous random graphs (2026); My Le, Luana Ruiz, Souvik Dhara.
  arxiv

Publications

Journal Publications

• Multiscale genesis of a tiny giant for percolation on scale-free random graphs (2025); Shankar Bhamidi, Souvik Dhara, Remco van der Hofstad.
  Annals of Probability. 53 (4): 1331-1381.
  arXiv, DOI

• The r-to-p norm of non-negative random matrices: Asymptotic normality and entry-wise bounds (2024); Souvik Dhara, Debankur Mukherjee, Kavita Ramanan. 

Annals of Applied Probability 34 (6), 5076-5115.
arXiv, DOI

• Barely supercritical percolation on Poissonian scale-free networks (2024); Souvik Dhara, Remco van der Hofstad.
  Markov Processes and Related Fields (Invited paper) 30 (1): 27-55.
  arXiv, DOI

• The power of two matrices in spectral algorithms (2023); Souvik Dhara, Julia Gaudio, Elchanan Mossel, Colin Sandon. 

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 70 (5): 3599-3621.
arXiv, DOI

• Large deviation for uniform graphs with given degrees (2022); Souvik Dhara, Subhabrata Sen.
  Annals of Applied Probability 32(3): 2327-2353.
  arXiv, DOI

• Global lower mass-bound for critical configuration models in the heavy-tailed regime (2022); Shankar Bhamidi, Souvik Dhara, Remco van der Hofstad, Sanchayan Sen.
  Electronic Journal of Probability 27, no. 103, 1-29
  arXiv, DOI

• Critical percolation on scale-free random graphs: New universality class for the configuration model (2021); Souvik Dhara, Remco van der Hofstad, Johan S.H. van Leeuwaarden.
  Communications in Mathematical Physics 382(1),123-171.
  arXiv, DOI

• Limits of sparse configuration models and beyond: graphexes and multi-graphexes (2021); Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes, Souvik Dhara, Subhabrata Sen.
  Annals of Probability 49(6): 2830-2873.
  arXiv, DOI

➢ Supplementary: A correction to Kallenberg's theorem for jointly exchangeable random measures (2019). arXiv

• Universality for critical heavy-tailed network models: Metric structure of maximal components (2020); Shankar Bhamidi, Souvik Dhara, Remco van der Hofstad, Sanchayan Sen.
  Electronic Journal of Probability 25, no. 47, 1-57.
  arXiv, DOI

• Heavy-tailed configuration models at criticality (2020); Souvik Dhara, Remco van der Hofstad, Johan S.H. van Leeuwaarden, Sanchayan Sen.
  Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré (B) Probability and Statistics 56, no. 3, 1515-1558.
  arXiv, DOI

• Corrected mean-field model for random sequential adsorption on random geometric graphs (2018); Souvik Dhara, Johan S.H. van Leeuwaarden, Debankur Mukherjee.
  Journal of Statistical Physics 173 (3-4), 872–894.
  arXiv, DOI

• Optimal service elasticity in large-scale distributed systems (2017); Debankur Mukherjee, Souvik Dhara, Sem Borst, Johan S.H. van Leeuwaarden.
  Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of computing systems. 
  arXiv, DOI

• Phase transitions of extremal cuts for the configuration model (2017); Souvik Dhara, Debankur Mukherjee, Subhabrata Sen.
  Electronic Journal of Probability 22, no. 86, 1–29.
  arXiv, DOI

• Generalized random sequential adsorption Erdös-Rényi Random Graphs  (2016); Souvik Dhara, Johan S.H. van Leeuwaarden, Debankur Mukherjee.
  Journal of Statistical Physics 164, 1217-1232.
  arXiv, DOI

• Critical window for the configuration model: finite third moment degrees (2016); Souvik Dhara, Remco van der Hofstad, Johan S.H. van Leeuwaarden, Sanchayan Sen.
  Electronic Journal of Probability 22, no. 16, 1–33.
  arXiv, DOI

Conferences Proceedings and Extended abstracts

• Narrow-Shell Stochasticity in Source–Sink Models of the LEO Environment (2026); Jaewon Choi, Souvik Dhara, Harsha Honnappa.
  2026 AMOS Conference (Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies). To appear.
  arXiv

• Local distance-preserving node embeddings and their performance on random graphs (2025); My Le, Luana Ruiz, Souvik Dhara.
  NeurIPS 2025 ML×OR Workshop: Mathematical Foundations and Operational Integration of Machine Learning for Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making.  
  arXiv

• Spectral recovery of binary  censored block models (2022); Souvik Dhara, Julia Gaudio, Elchanan Mossel, Colin Sandon.
  Proceedings of the 2022 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
  arXiv, DOI

• Optimal service elasticity in large-scale distributed systems (2017); Debankur Mukherjee, Souvik Dhara, Sem Borst, Johan S.H. van Leeuwaarden. SIGMETRICS'17, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.
  DOI

Other preprints

• Spectral algorithms optimally recover planted sub-structures (2022); Souvik Dhara, Julia Gaudio, Elchanan Mossel, Colin Sandon.
  arXiv

• Community detection using low-dimensional network embedding algorithms (2021); Aman Barot, Shankar Bhamidi, Souvik Dhara.
  arXiv

Expository Articles

• Universality for critical behavior of percolation processes on complex networks (2021); Souvik Dhara.
  Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (NAW) 5/22 nr. 2. pdf, link