Victor Amelkin

Former Graduate Student Researcher
Email: 
victor@cs.ucsb.edu
Office: 
Harold Frank Hall, 2120A, between Arlei and Sourav
Website: 
Personal web-page

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science (UCSB, Summer 2018)

Bio

Victor graduated with a PhD from UCSB's Department of Computer Science in June, 2018, having worked on network processes with an emphasis on social and economic networks. In July, 2018, he joined the University of Pennsylvania's Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences as a Postdoctoral Fellow, where he worked until mid-2020, prior to joining Amazon.com as a Research Scientist. Before joining Dynamo Lab, Victor worked in scientific computing, and spent several years as a software engineer in industry. He also holds a MSc and a BSc degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.

Research interests

Network Science, Social and Economic Networks, Algorithms, Data Mining, Systems and Control.

 

Selected Publications: 
Polar Opinion Dynamics in Social NetworksA Distance Measure for the Analysis of Polar Opinion Dynamics in Social NetworksDynamics of Collective Performance in Collaboration Networks