Personal:

• Name: Gábor Szabó
• Email:[email protected]

Professional experience

• 2011- : Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA
  Senior data scientist
• 2007–2011: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Social Computing Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA
  Research scientist, working with HP Labs senior fellow Bernardo Huberman
• 2005–2006 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  Postdoctoral fellow, working with Prof. Albert-László Barabási
• 2004–2006 University of Notre Dame, Department of Physics, Notre Dame, IN
  Postdoctoral fellow, working with Prof. Albert-László Barabási

Education:

• 2001–2004 Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
  Ph.D. in Statistical and Computational Physics (summa cum laude), advisor: János Kertész
• 1996–2001 Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
  M.Sc. in Physics, advisor: János Kertész

Publications

Online social media

1. S. Asur, B.A. Huberman, G. Szabó, and C. Wang, “Trends in Social Media: Persistence and Decay ”, Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 434 (2011).
   
2. G. Szabó and B.A. Huberman, “Predicting the popularity of online content”, Communications of the ACM 53 (8), 80–88 (August 2010).
   
3. G. Szabó, A. Ankolekar, J. Edlund, and B.A. Huberman, “Friendlee: A mobile application for your social life”, HP TechCon, one of 130 accepted papers out of 1300 submissions (2010).
   
4. A. Ankolekar, G. Szabó, Y. Luon, B.A. Huberman, D. Wilkinson, and F. Wu , “Friendlee: A mobile application for your social life”, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (2009).
   
5. T. Hogg and G. Szabó, “Dynamics and diversity of online community activities”, Europhysics Letters 86, 38003 (2009).
   
6. T. Hogg and G. Szabó, “Diversity of user activity and content quality in online communities”, Proceedings of the 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (2009).
   
7. M. Brzozowski, T. Hogg, and G. Szabó, “Friends and foes: Ideological social networking”, Proceedings of the 26th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 817–820 (2008).
   
8. T. Hogg, D. Wilkinson, G. Szabó, and M. Brzozowski, “Multiple relationship types in online communities and social networks”, Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Social Information Processing (2008).

Social and communication networks

9. J.-P. Onnela, J. Saramäki, J. Hyvönen, G. Szabó, D. Lazer, K. Kaski, J. Kertész, and A.-L. Barabási, “Structure and tie strengths in mobile communication networks”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104, 7332–7336 (2007).
   
10. J.-P. Onnela, J. Saramäki, J. Hyvönen, G. Szabó, M. Argollo de Menezes, Kimmo Kaski, A.-L. Barabási, and J. Kertész, “Analysis of a large-scale weighted network of one-to-one human communication”, New Journal of Physics 9, 179 (2007).
    
11. G. Szabó and A.-L. Barabási, “Network effects in service usage”, preprint arXiv physics/0611177 (2006).
    
12. T. Schoenharl, G. Madey, G. Szabó, and A.-L. Barabási, “WIPER: A multi-agent system for emergency response”, Proceedings of the 3rd International ISCRAM Conference, B. Van de Walle and M. Turoff, eds., Newark, NJ, USA, May 2006.
    
13. G. Madey, G. Szabó, and A.-L. Barabási, “WIPER: The integrated wireless phone-based emergency response system”, Computational Science–ICCS 2006: 6th International Conference, Reading, UK, May 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3993, 417–424 (2006).
    
14. G. Szabó, “Book Review: Evolution and structure of the Internet: A statistical physics approach, by R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani”, Journal of Statistical Physics 122, 1297–1298 (2006).
    
15. G. Szabó, “Mapping a communication tree with correlation of packets”, International Journal of Modern Physics C 16, 647–654 (2005).
    
16. G. Szabó, M. Alava, and J. Kertész, “Geometry of minimum spanning trees on scale-free networks”, Physica A 330, 31–36 (2003).
    
17. G. Szabó, M. Alava, and J. Kertész, “Structural transitions in scale-free networks”, Physical Review E 67, 056102 [5 pages] (2003).
    
18. G. Szabó, M. Alava, and J. Kertész, “Shortest paths and load scaling in scale-free trees”, Physical Review E 66, 026101 [8 pages] (2002).

Protein networks

19. P. Lamesch, N. Li, S. Milstein, C. Fan, T. Hao, G. Szabó, Z. Hu, K. Venkatesan, G. Bethel, P. Martin, J. Rogers, S. Lawlor, S. McLaren, A. Dricot, H. Borick, M.E. Cusick, J. Vandenhaute, I. Dunham, D.E. Hill, and M. Vidal, “hORFeome v3.1: A resource of human open reading frames representing over 10,000 human genes”, Genomics 89, 307–315 (2007).
    
20. J. Lim, T. Hao, C. Shaw, A.J. Patel, G. Szabó, J.-F. Rual, C.J. Fisk, N. Li, A. Smolyar, D.E. Hill, A.-L. Barabási, M. Vidal, and H.Y. Zoghbi, “A protein-protein interaction network for human inherited ataxias and disorders of Purkinje cell degeneration”, Cell 125, 801–814 (2006).

Interface growth

21. G. Szabó, M. Alava, and J. Kertész, “Self-organized criticality in the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation”, Europhysics Letters 57, 665–671 (2002).
    
22. G. Szabó and M. Alava, “Mapping a depinning transition to polynuclear growth”, Physica A 301, 17–28 (2001).
    
23. G. Kis and G. Szabó, “Effect of channel noise on decision thresholds for M-ary DCSK modulation”, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems, Budapest, Hungary, July 1998, pp. 185–187.

Book chapters

1. T. Hogg and G. Szabó, “Modeling the diversity of user behavior in online communities”, in “A Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities: Paradigms and Phenomena”, IGI Global (2010).
   
2. V. Muralidhar and G. Szabó, “Topological analysis of biomolecular networks”, in “Systems Bioinformatics: An Engineering Case-based Approach, by G. Alterovitz and M.F. Ramoni”, Artech House (2007).
   
3. G. Szabó, M. Alava, and J. Kertész, “Clustering in complex networks”, Lecture Notes in Physics “Networks: Structure, dynamics, and function” 650, 139–162 (2004).