I am currently a PhD Student in the Centre for Complex Systems Research in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at The University of Sydney. I received my M.Sc in Engineering from the School of Industrial and Management Engineering (Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program) at Seoul National University (South Korea) in August, 2008. I received my B.Sc in Computer (Software) Engineering from the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology (Iran) in August, 2002. My primary research interests include social network analysis, methods for analyzing various types of complex networks and their evolutionary patterns, and also bibliometrics (evaluating academics' performance and collaboration networks).
Journals
Betweenness Centrality as a Driver of Preferential Attachment in the Evolution of Research Collaboration Networks (with Liaquat Hossain and Loet Leydesdorff), Journal of Informetrics (accepted) (2012)
Effects of Networks on Learning during Emergency Events (with Jafar Hamra, Liaquat Hossain, and Christine Owen), Disaster Prevention and Management (Under Review) (2012)
Investigating Organizational Change based on their Position in the Evolutionary Response Networks during Emerging Disasters (with Naim kapucu), Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (submitted) (2012)
Social Capital and Individual Performance: A Study of Academic Collaboration (with Liaquat Hossain, Rolf Wigand), Submitted to Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) (2012)
Evolutionary Dynamics of Scientific Collaboration Networks: Multi-Levels and Cross-time Analysis, Scientometrics (2011)
Conferences
Exploring the relationship between research impact and collaborations for Information Science, 45th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-45), Jan.4-7, Hawaii, USA. (2012)
Hybrid Centrality Measures for Binary and Weighted Networks, 3rd workshop on Complex Networks (2012)