Ph.D. in Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2010
Dissertation Title: “From Human Behavior to Virus Spreading”
Dissertation Adviser: Professor Albert-László Barabási, Associate Professor Zoltán 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

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

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

[3]. Understanding the spreading patterns of mobile phones viruses, P. Wang, M.C. González, C.A. Hidalgo and A.-L.Barabási, 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. González, P. Wang, T. Schoenharl, G. Madey, and A.-L. Barabási, 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. Barabási, N.V. Chawla, M.C. Gonzalez, D. Hachen, B. Lantz, A. Pawling, T. Schoenharl, G. Szabó, P. Wang and P. Yan, International Conference on Computational Science, serial Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 4487), pp. 1090-1097, May (2007).[PDF]

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.

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

Operating systems: Windows, Linux

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

Scientific tools: Mathematica, Matlab, Origin

Tex formatting: LaTeX, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Game Programming:

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

Visulizations:

Randomwalk, Levy Flight, Mobile Phone Network