Homepage of Pu Wang

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Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame

225 Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556

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Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University

110 Forsyth Street, Boston, MA 02115

 

Office Phone: (617) 373-8805

Email: pwang2 AT nd.edu

Personal Homepage: http://puwang.barabasilab.com


Education:

 

Ph.D. in Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2010
Dissertation Title: ¡°From Human Behavior to Virus Spreading¡±
Dissertation Adviser: Professor Albert-L¨¢szl¨® Barab¨¢si, Associate Professor Zolt¨¢n Toroczkai

B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 2005
Thesis Title: ¡°Hardware configuration of the Dual-Energy X-ray Bone Apparatus¡±
Thesis Advisor: Associate Professor Ji Shen


Professional Experience:

 

Research Assistant, Center for Complex Networks Research, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, 2006-2010


Research Assistant, Center for Complex Networks Research, Department of Physics, Biology and Computer Science, Northeastern University, 2007-2010


Research Assistant, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana Farber cancer Institute, 2009-2010


Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, 2005-2006


Publications:

 

[4]. Understanding spatial connectivity of individuals with non uniform population density, P. Wang and M.C. Gonz¨¢lez, Philosophical Transactions A (2009) (in press).


[3]. Understanding the spreading patterns of mobile phones viruses, P. Wang, M.C. Gonz¨¢lez, C.A. Hidalgo and A.-L.Barab¨¢si, Science 324, 1071-1076 (2009). [PDF],[Supplementary Material],[Website]

News and Views : Science, Nature Physics, NSF, BBC, Scientific American, PhysOrg


[2]. Uncovering individual and collective human dynamics from mobile phone records, J. Candia, M.C. Gonz¨¢lez, P. Wang, T. Schoenharl, G. Madey, and A.-L. Barab¨¢si, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 41, 224015 (2008).[PDF]


[1]. Enhanced Situational Awareness: Application of DDDAS Concepts to Emergency and Disaster Management, G.R. Madey, A.-L. Barab¨¢si, N.V. Chawla, M.C. Gonzalez, D. Hachen, B. Lantz, A. Pawling, T. Schoenharl, G. Szab¨®, P. Wang and P. Yan, International Conference on Computational Science, serial Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 4487), pp. 1090-1097, May (2007).[PDF]


Conference Presentations:

 

2009 NetSci09, Venice, Italy. 07-1, 2009. From human mobility pattern to mobile virus's spreading. [PPT],[Talk]


2009 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Pittsburg, PA, Mar. 03-17, 2009. Understanding the spreading patterns of mobile phone viruses.


2008 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA, Mar. 03-13, 2008. Epidemic of cell phone virus.


Honors, Awards, Fellowships and Scholarships:

 

Champion in the USTC & Lenovo Cup National Programming Competition,2004

Outstanding Student Scholarship,2003

Outstanding Student Scholarship,2002

National High School Physics Olympic Competition Province silver medal,2000


Skills and Techniques:

 

Operating systems: Windows, Linux

Coding Languages: C/C++, Perl, Basic

Scientific tools: Mathematica, Matlab, Origin

Tex formatting: LaTeX, Word, Excel, PowerPoint


Game Programming and Visulizations:

 

Game Programming:

SpeedHunter: A racing game based on C++ and OpenGL, 12/2003~02/2004

Visulizations:

Randomwalk, Levy Flight, Mobile Phone Network


 

 

last modified: July 6, 2009