Maciej KURANT



I received my Ph.D. degree at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2009. Currently, I am a postdoc at University of California, Irvine.

My main areas of research interest include sampling Online Social Networks, survivability in optical and overlay networks, and inference and study of large-scale complex networks (such as the human brain). For more information, please check my publications, résumé, and citations.


Selected publications:

F. Malandrino, M. Kurant, A. Markopoulou, C. Westphal, U. Kozat
"Proactive Seeding for Information Cascades in Cellular Networks"
accepted to INFOCOM 2012   pdf

M. Kurant, M. Gjoka, C. T. Butts and A. Markopoulou
"Walking on a Graph with a Magnifying Glass"
SIGMETRICS 2011   pdf   extended version   pptx   data

M. Kurant, A. Markopoulou and P. Thiran
"Towards Unbiased BFS Sampling"
IEEE JSAC, Oct. 2011   pdf   arXiv   python scripts

M. Kurant
"Exploiting the Path Propagation Time in Multipath Transmission with FEC"
IEEE JSAC, May 2011, also presented at INFOCOM 2009   pdf   ppt

P. Hagmann, M. Kurant, et al.
"Mapping human whole-brain structural networks with diffusion MRI"
PLoS ONE, July 2007   pdf  online version

M. Kurant and P. Thiran
"Survivable Routing of Mesh Topologies in IP-over-WDM Networks"
IEEE JSAC, June 2007, also presented at INFOCOM 2005   pdf   ppt

M. Kurant and P. Thiran
"Layered Complex Networks"
Phys. Rev. Lett., Apr. 2006   pdf   data.zip

all publications


Miscellaneous

I am also the founder and developer of AcronymCreator.net - a tool that helps you generate an acronym-like name for your new algorithm, system, product, etc.

And this is what I do in my free time.