Guest Researcher

Samin Aref

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, 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)

Other Publications

Samin Aref, Zachary P. Neal:

Identifying hidden coalitions in the US House of Representatives by optimally partitioning signed networks based on generalized balance

Scientific Reports

Samin Aref, Mark C. Wilson:

Balance and frustration in signed networks

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

Samin Aref, Andrew J. Mason, Mark C. Wilson:

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

Networks 75, 1 (2020), 95-110.

Samin Aref, Andrew J. Mason, Mark C. Wilson:

Computing the Line Index of Balance Using Integer Programming Optimisation

In Optimization Problems in Graph Theory, B. Goldengorin, Ed. Springer, 2018, pp. 65-84.

Samin Aref, Mark C. Wilson:

Measuring Partial Balance in Signed Networks

Journal of Complex Networks 6, 4 (2018), 566-595.

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