6 papers
Resting-State EEG Network Profiles Associated with Creative Engagement and Creative Self-Efficacy
Samir Damji, Simrut Kurry, Shazia'Ayn Babul +2
Creativity is a core cognitive capacity underlying innovation and adaptive problem solving, yet how it is represented in the brain's intrinsic functional architecture is not fully…
Modeling Urban Air Quality Using Taxis as Sensors
Anastasios Noulas, Yasin Acikmese, Charles QC LI +5
Monitoring urban air quality with high spatiotemporal resolution continues to pose significant challenges. We investigate the use of taxi fleets as mobile sensing platforms, analyz…
Negative Ties Highlight Hidden Extremes in Social Media Polarization
Elena Candellone, Shazia'Ayn Babul, Özgür Togay +2
Human interactions in the online world comprise a combination of positive and negative exchanges. These diverse interactions can be captured using signed network representations, w…
Detection of anomalous spatio-temporal patterns of app traffic in response to catastrophic events
Sofia Medina, Shazia'Ayn Babul, Rohit Sahasrabuddhe +3
In this work, we uncover patterns of usage mobile phone applications and information spread in response to perturbations caused by unprecedented events. We focus on categorizing pa…
Strong and Weak Random Walks on Signed Networks
Shazia'Ayn Babul, Yu Tian, Renaud Lambiotte
Random walks play an important role in probing the structure of complex networks. On traditional networks, they can be used to extract community structure, understand node centrali…
Link Me Baby One More Time: Social Music Discovery on Spotify
Shazia'Ayn Babul, Desislava Hristova, Antonio Lima +2
We explore the social and contextual factors that influence the outcome of person-to-person music recommendations and discovery. Specifically, we use data from Spotify to investiga…