PhD

I started my Ph.D. in October 2012 in the field of Social Networks Analysis. Part of the New Network Science, social network analysis lies at the crossroads of mathematics, graph theory, social psychology, marketing, politics, economy, security & privacy issues, medicine, genetics and, last but not least, computer science. My main interests revolve around the fundamental concepts of:

• modeling the structure of the society by understanding the way individuals interconnect
• predicting the dynamics of the society and the formation of new friendships
• enhancing existing opinion diffusion models in the graph
• determining the influential nodes and understanding their strategic positioning in the opinion diffusion process
• modeling the impact of opinion on the micro level of an individual, and reflecting it at the macro level of the whole society

Once this is achieved I hope to have made a difference in this field. According to the plan, I successfully finished and defended my thesis in February 2016.

Documents for my doctoral progress

• Milestone 1. Activity of 2012 - 2013
  1. The program of the individual scientific research project proposed for the PhD (Anexa 3.1)
  2. The research project after the 1^st year of PhD (Research Project), 25.11.2013
• Milestone 2. Activity of 2013 - 2014
  1. The individual scientific progress after the 2^nd year of PhD (Milestone project), 27.09.2014
• Milestone 3. Activity of 2014 - 2015
  1. The individual scientific progress after the 3^rd year of PhD (Milestone project), 13.05.2015
• Final thesis. Activity of 2012 - 2016
  1. The individual scientific progress after the 3 years of PhD, 09.12.2015
  2. The public defense of the thesis (Final project), 12.02.2016