Current Main Research focus
One of the current main focuses of the group is on the development of new tools to uncover and model high order patterns of data.
Highlight: Check our paper on the use of Minimally Complex spin Models (MCM) to identify and model groups of highly correlated variables in binary data: here.
The procedure performs exact Bayesian model selection and takes into account all possible high order patterns of data (3-body correlations, 4-body correlations, etc.) in the detection of these « communities » of variables. The use of Minimally Complex Models provides robust predictions on dependencies between variables.
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Codes: You can find our codes that performs this « high-order community detection » for binary data on Github:
— MinCompSpin performs an exhaustive search and works best for systems with a small number of variables (<= 15).
— MinCompSpin_Greedy performs a greedy search and works best for systems with a large number of variables (up to 128 variables).
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Python Package: Our Python package to analyze discrete data with minimally complex models:
— MinCompSpin, for discrete datasets with variables that can take up to 10 values, for up to 128 variables.
Current group members
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PhD students: Merijn Moody (co-supervised with Jo Ellis-Monaghan and Patrick Forré)
Collaborations:
Emanuele Agrimi, PhD student at IMT Lucca with Tommaso Gili and Tiziano Squartini
Maxim Zewe, PhD student at SISSA with Domenica Bueti and Eugenio Piasini
Carlo Orientale Caputo, PhD student at SISSA with Eugenio Piasini
Master students:
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— Physics: Elfatih Idris
— Physics of complex systems: Jorge Gonzalez Larragoiti (collaboration with Linda Douw)
— Mathematics: Khaled Tamimy
— Computational Science: Job Marcelis (collaboration with Greg Stephens), Wessel Beumer
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Master students graduated:
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— Theoretical Physics: Jair Lenssen, Karel Geraedts, Sietse Verbeek, Matteo Sokratis Lioumis
— Computational Science: Sam Kamphof, Marije Dekker, Karim Semin, Maria Iosif, Aaron De Clercq, Paul Hosek, Lotte Wolfenter, Mylène van der Maas, Karel Geraedts, Jonas Argelo
— Theoretical physics and Neuroscience: Martijn Klop (Utrecht University)
Open positions
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Don’t hesitate to contact me by email to ask about possible open positions or Master projects.