Description

We are interconnected: online social networks when we communicate with each other, gene and protein interaction networks within us, traffic networks when we drive, trading and economic networks when we purchase, and the omnipresent cell phones! These interconnections often depend on and result in the generation of large amounts of data. Preparing the first generation of professionals capable of analyzing, controlling, and modeling such empirical networks with large datasets in order to understand their fundamental unifying principles, with the ability to apply these principles to the design of more efficient and robust networks is the central theme of this IGERT.