Networks

MSCA COFUND

In February 2020 NETWORKS received a COFUND grant of around €1.5 million euro from the EU Horizon2020 program. With this grant, NETWORKS was able to hire 14 new PhD students in the period 2020-2025. After receiving the COFUND for these 14 PhD positions, NETWORKS has been granted a COFUND grant of €1.0 million to appoint 14 postdoctoral researchers for 2 years early 2021.

 

The aim of the COFUND program is to strengthen international research collaborations and to improve scientific mobility. Within the program offered there is also a strong emphasis on educating these young researchers. 

 

The projects listed below has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 945045 (PhD students) and grant agreement No 101034253 (postdoctoral fellows).

 

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PhD students

  • Bharti - Stochastic Decision Making for Spatial Problems
  • Wessel Blomerus -  Structured Learning for Stochastic Optimization: Algorithm Design and Convergence
  • Shreehari Bodas - Estimation of model primitives based on partial information
  • Federico Capannoli - Interacting particle systems on random graphs
  • Francisco Escudero - Quantum query complexity
  • Purva Joshi - Optimal Routing of Autonomous Vehicles
  • Gianluca Kosmella - Modeling and Analysis of Optical Neural Networks across Photon Density Regimes
  • Andrés López Martínez - The stability of online algorithms
  • Nandan Malhotra - Spectra of Random graphs
  • Benedikt Meylahn - The dynamics of trust networks
  • Marta Milewska - Understanding superspreading phenomena of epidemics on complex networks
  • Rounak Ray - Percolation and Random Walks on Preferential Attachment Models
  • Mehmet Akif Yildiz - Extremal, algorithmic, and enumerative problems in graph theory
  • Haodong Zhu -  Statistical mechanics of and on random graphs

     

Postdoctoral fellows

  • Elene Anton Balerdi - Stability and performance of multi-class queueing systems with unknown service rates: A combined scheduling-learning approach
  • Fabian Burghart - Covers and Factors beyond Cliques
  • Benoît Corsini - Developments on the Configuration Model
  • Martin Frohn - A new information theory perspective on network design in phylogenetics and beyond
  • Royi Jacobovich - Some new results about an old model: The M/G/1 queue
  • Nikolai Kriukov - Multivariate extremes and networks
  • Azadeh Parvaneh - The Friendship Paradox for Sparse Random Graphs 
  • Matteo Quattropani - Voter model and coalescent random walks on random graphs
  • Artem Tsikiridis - Network Design for Strategic Environments
  • Jiesen WangEstimation of on- and off-time distributions in a dynamic Erdos-Renyi random graph
  • Max Wötzel - Probabilistic methods to study independent sets in hypergraphs
  • Wiktor Zuba - Algorithms on strings and labelled graphs