Guest Researcher

Samin Aref

Laboratory of Migration and Mobility

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Samin Aref is an assistant professor at University of Toronto (Canada) and a guest researcher at the Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany). Prof. Aref holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Auckland (New Zealand, 2019) and an MSc in Industrial Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Iran, 2014). Prof. Aref’s research is at the intersections of Data Science, Operations Research, Applied Machine Learning, Network Science, Industrial Engineering, and Computational Social Science for which he has secured funding from several organizations in Germany, New Zealand, and Canada. Prof. Aref has given over 60 invited talks and presentations at international conferences and workshops and has published over 20 articles in reputable journals including European Journal of Operational Research, Networks, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Scientometrics, EPJ Data Science, Scientific Reports, and Journal of Complex Networks. More info on saref.github.io

MPIDR Publications

Selected Recent All

Zhao, X.; Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; Stecklov, G.:

International migration in academia and citation performance: an analysis of German-affiliated researchers by gender and discipline using Scopus publications 1996-2020

In: 18th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics ISSI 2021: 12-15 July 2021, KU Leuven, Belgium; proceedings, 1369–1380. Leuven: ISSI. (2021)    

Aref, S.; Dinh, L.; Rezapour, R.; Diesner, J.:

Multilevel structural evaluation of signed directed social networks based on Balance Theory

Scientific Reports 10. (2020)       

Aref, S.; Neal, Z.:

Detecting coalitions by optimally partitioning signed networks of political collaboration

Scientific Reports 10:1506, 1–10. (2020)       

Subbotin, A.; Aref, S.:

Brain drain and brain gain in Russia: analyzing international mobility of researchers by discipline using Scopus bibliometric data 1996-2020

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-025. (2020)    

Miranda-González, A.; Aref, S.; Theile, T.; Zagheni, E.:

Scholarly migration within Mexico: analyzing internal migration among researchers using Scopus longitudinal bibliometric data

EPJ Data Science 9. (2020)    

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Alavizadeh, H.; Aref, S.; Kim, D. S.; Jang-Jaccard, J.:

Evaluating the security and economic effects of Moving Target Defense techniques on the cloud

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 10:4, 1772–1788. (2022)

Şanlitürk, A. E.; Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; Billari, F. C.:

Homecoming after Brexit: evidence on academic migration from bibliometric data

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-019. (2022)    

Zhao, X.; Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; Stecklov, G.:

Return migration of German-affiliated researchers: analyzing departure and return by gender, cohort, and discipline using Scopus bibliometric data 1996–2020

Scientometrics 127:12, 7707–7729. (2022)    

Zhao, X.; Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; Stecklov, G.:

Mapping academic migration of German-affiliated researchers across countries using 8 million Scopus publications from 1996 to 2020

Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association 3:327, 1–2. (2021)    

Zhao, X.; Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; Stecklov, G.:

International migration in academia and citation performance: an analysis of German-affiliated researchers by gender and discipline using Scopus publications 1996-2020

In: 18th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics ISSI 2021: 12-15 July 2021, KU Leuven, Belgium; proceedings, 1369–1380. Leuven: ISSI. (2021)    

Selected Recent All

Alavizadeh, H.; Aref, S.; Kim, D. S.; Jang-Jaccard, J.:

Evaluating the security and economic effects of Moving Target Defense techniques on the cloud

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 10:4, 1772–1788. (2022)

Şanlitürk, A. E.; Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; Billari, F. C.:

Homecoming after Brexit: evidence on academic migration from bibliometric data

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-019. (2022)    

Zhao, X.; Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; Stecklov, G.:

Return migration of German-affiliated researchers: analyzing departure and return by gender, cohort, and discipline using Scopus bibliometric data 1996–2020

Scientometrics 127:12, 7707–7729. (2022)    

Zhao, X.; Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; Stecklov, G.:

Mapping academic migration of German-affiliated researchers across countries using 8 million Scopus publications from 1996 to 2020

Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association 3:327, 1–2. (2021)    

Zhao, X.; Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; Stecklov, G.:

International migration in academia and citation performance: an analysis of German-affiliated researchers by gender and discipline using Scopus publications 1996-2020

In: 18th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics ISSI 2021: 12-15 July 2021, KU Leuven, Belgium; proceedings, 1369–1380. Leuven: ISSI. (2021)    

Aref, S.; Dinh, L.; Rezapour, R.; Diesner, J.:

Multilevel structural evaluation of signed directed social networks based on Balance Theory

Scientific Reports 10. (2020)    

Aref, S.; Mason, A. J.; Wilson, M. C.:

A modeling and computational study of the frustration index in signed networks

Networks 75:1, 95–110. (2020)    

Aref, S.; Neal, Z.:

Detecting coalitions by optimally partitioning signed networks of political collaboration

Scientific Reports 10:1506, 1–10. (2020)    

Miranda-González, A.; Aref, S.; Theile, T.; Zagheni, E.:

Scholarly migration within Mexico: analyzing internal migration among researchers using Scopus longitudinal bibliometric data

EPJ Data Science 9. (2020)    

Subbotin, A.; Aref, S.:

Brain drain and brain gain in Russia: analyzing international mobility of researchers by discipline using Scopus bibliometric data 1996-2020

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-025. (2020)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Aref, S.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Grow, A.; Negraia, D. V.; Zagheni, E.:

Demography in the digital era: new data sources for population research

In: Smart statistics for smart applications : book of short papers SIS2019, 23–30. Pearson. (2019)    

Aref, S.; Wilson, M. C.:

Balance and frustration in signed networks

Journal of Complex Networks 7:2, 163–189. (2019)

Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; West, J.:

The demography of the peripatetic researcher: evidence on highly mobile scholars from the Web of Science

In: Social Informatics 11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019, Doha, Qatar, November 18–21, 2019, Proceedings, 50–65. Cham: Springer. (2019)

Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; West, J.:

The demography of the peripatetic researcher: evidence on highly mobile scholars from the Web of Science

In: Social Informatics 11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019, Doha, Qatar, November 18–21, 2019, Proceedings, 50–65. Cham: Springer. (2019)

Ciganda, D.; Lorenti, A.:

Using simulated reproductive history data to re-think the relationship between education and fertility

In: Social Informatics 11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019, Doha, Qatar, November 18–21, 2019, Lecture Notes in Computer Science., 218–238. Cham: Springer. (2019)

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