Publications

Journal

D. Shah and T. Zaman, Finding Rumor Sources on Random Graphs, submitted to Annals of Applied Probability [Arxiv version].

D. Shah and T. Zaman, Rumors in a Network: Who's the Culprit?, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 57, pp. 5163-5181, August 2011. [Arxiv version]

Conference

D. Shah and T. Zaman, Community Detection in Networks: The Leader-Follower Algorithm, Workshop on Networks Across Disciplines in Theory and Applications, NIPS 2010. [Arxiv version].

T. Zaman, R. Herbrich, J. Van Gael, and D. Stern, Predicting Information Spreading in Twitter, Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of Crowds , NIPS 2010.

D. Shah and T. Zaman, Detecting Sources of Computer Viruses in Networks: Theory and Experiment, ACM Sigmetrics 2010. [slides]

Thesis

T. Zaman, Information Extraction with Network Centrality: Finding Rumor Sources and Measuring Influence, Research supervisor: Prof. Devavrat Shah, 2011.