Talks

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2025

Title	Type
“Expanding the ERGM Framework: Modeling Interrelated Health Outcomes with Jointly-Distributed Binary Data” (June 26, 2025) Sunbelt Conference, 2025	conference talk
Understanding Diffusion with netdiffuseR (June 24, 2025) Sunbelt Conference, 2025	conference workshop

2024

Title	Type
Automatic Calibration of Agent-Based Models using Deep Neural Networks (November 1, 2024) DELPHI Symposium 2024	conference poster
How does network structure in Agent-Based Models affect epidemiological parameters? A large (October 27, 2024) CSS 2024 Santa Fe	conference poster
“Machine Learning Sandwich for Agent-Based Models: Automatic calibration and post-processing adjustment for ABMs” (September 4, 2024) Methods talks	invited talk
“A Brief Introduction to High-Performance Computing: With Applications in R” (September 4, 2024) Methods talks	invited talk
epiworld: A fast multi-language library for epi ABMs (September 3, 2024) Conference on Complex Systems, 2024	conference talk
“Exponential Random Graph Models: An Introduction” (July 4, 2024) Summer Institute in Computational Social Science	invited talk
“‘La Muerte del Aprendizaje de Máquina’ o ‘cómo la teoría puede mejorar a las máquinas’” (January 15, 2024) Escuela de Verano de Sistemas Complejos	invited talk
Statistical Inference in Network Science: A short course (January 15, 2024) Escuela de Verano de Sistemas Complejos	workshop
Introduction to Exponential-Family Random Graph Models (January 11, 2024) 1st Chilean Summer School about Social Network Research	workshop

2023

Title	Type
What is a Scientist? (November 21, 2023) Career Day 2023	invited talk
Power and multicollinearity in small networks: A discussion of “Tale of Two Datasets: Representativeness and Generalisability of Inference for Samples of Networks” by Krivitsky, Coletti & Hens (August 9, 2023) Joint Statistical Meetings, 2023	invited talk
How Network Structure Affects Epidemiological Indicators in ABMs - A Large Simulation Study Featuring Artificial and Real-world Networks (July 1, 2023) INSNA Sunbelt 2023	conference talk
Visualization tools for network science: Building beautiful graphs with netplot (June 30, 2023) INSNA Sunbelt 2023	conference poster
Simulating Complex Agent-Based Model with epiworldR: A fast and flexible ABM framework (June 28, 2023) INSNA Sunbelt 2023	conference workshop
Mechanistic Machine Learning (May 19, 2023) MInD2.0 Visit Harvard	talk
Network visualization (in R) with “netplot” and motif counting (in C++) with “barry” (April 7, 2023) SCI Seminar	invited talk
Prediction of Gene Functions by Leveraging Biological Insights with Mechanistic Machine Learning (January 11, 2023) University of Utah Data Science Seminar	invited talk

2022

Title	Type
The importance of interaction networks in long-term care facilities to reduce the equilibrium prevalence of infectious pathogens (July 15, 2022) Sunbelt 2022	conference talk
Imaginary Network Motifs: Structural Patterns of False Positives and Negatives in Social Networks (May 27, 2022) 72th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association	conference talk

2021

Title	Type
Una Mirada General a los Modelos Cuantitativos de Redes Sociales (November 18, 2021) VII Reunión Latinoamericana de Análisis de Redes Sociales	conference talk
Triads, Dyads, and Gene Functions - When Social Network Analysis Meets Phylogenetics (July 10, 2021) NETWORKS 2021 - A Joint Sunbelt and NetSci Conference	conference talk
Network Influence in Officer Firearm Use (July 7, 2021) NETWORKS 2021 - A Joint Sunbelt and NetSci Conference	conference talk
Triadas, lazos y funciones genéticas: cuando las redes sociales y la filogenética se encuentran (May 19, 2021) Seminario de Data Science	invited talk
A Crash course on git (March 18, 2021) Happy Scientist Seminar	workshop
Triads, Dyads, and Gene Functions - When Social Network Analysis Meets Phylogenetics (March 9, 2021) Computational Cancer Genomics Working Group Evening Lecture	invited talk
HPC with Slurm, R, and the slurmR R package (February 19, 2021) Happy Scientist Seminar	workshop

2020

Title	Type
Essays on Bioinformatics and Social Network Analysis: Statistical and Computational Methods for Complex Systems (June 22, 2020) Doctoral Defense	talk
ERGMito Statistical Models for Small Team Social Networks (June 1, 2020) SciTS 2020	conference talk
“Predicción de funciones genéticas utilizando evidencia experimental y árboles filogenéticos: Un modelo evolutivo” o “Ciencia de datos en la práctica” (April 15, 2020) PUC Mathematical and Computational Engineering Seminars	invited talk
Essays on Bioinformatics and Social Network Analysis Statistical and Computational Methods for Complex Systems (January 30, 2020) Biostats Seminars	talk
slurmR workshop (January 22, 2020) Happy Scientist Semminar Series	workshop

2019

Title	Type
Happy Scientist Seminar: Research Pipelines (October 24, 2019) Happy Scientist Seminar	talk
A Brief Introduction to Using R for High-Performance Computing (August 27, 2019) Orange County R Users Group	invited talk
Exact Statistics and Semi-Parametric Tests for Small Network Data (July 19, 2019) IC2S2, 2019	conference talk
Exact Statistics and Semi-Parametric Tests for Small Network Data (June 20, 2019) Sunbelt 2019	conference talk
What drives social networks? A gentle introduction to exponential random graph models (with a focus on small networks) (June 19, 2019) East LA R User Group	talk
Big Problems for Small Networks: Statistical Analysis of Small Networks and Team Performance (April 29, 2019) UCI Social Network Research Group	invited talk
Big Problems for Small Networks: Statistical Analysis of Small Networks and Team Performance (March 20, 2019) SONIC Speaker	invited talk
Small network statistics for the network science of teams (January 3, 2019) NetSciX 2019, SCL	conference talk

2018

Title	Type
Estadística de Redes y Econometría Espacial (con R) (December 20, 2018) IMFD Summer School	invited talk
Overview of Social Network Models (December 12, 2018)	talk
Computacion de Alto Rendimiento con R (December 12, 2018) satRday Santiago 2018	conference workshop
Big Problems for Small Networks: Small Network Statistics (November 28, 2018) NASN 2018, DC	conference talk
A brief introduction to using R for high-performance computing (November 12, 2018) East LA R User Group	talk
R Bootcamp for Scientific Computing 2018 (August 13, 2018) R Bootcamp for Scientific Computing	workshop
Introduction to R (for HPC users) (July 7, 2018) USC’s HPCC workshop	workshop
Intro to R (July 7, 2018) USC’s HPCC workshop	workshop

2017

Title	Type
Uncomplicated Parallel Computing with Stata (July 28, 2017) Stata Conference 2017	conference talk
Diffusion of Smoking Initiation Among Diverse, Urban American Adolescents Over The High School Period (July 28, 2017) NASN 2017	conference talk
Understanding Diffusion with netdiffuseR (July 26, 2017) NASN 2017	conference workshop

2016

Title	Type
Reproducible Research (September 19, 2016) Health Behavior Research Students talk	talk
Network Diffusion of Innovations in R: Introducing netdiffuseR (June 29, 2016) useR! 2016	conference talk
Network Diffusion of Innovations in R: Introducing netdiffuseR (June 24, 2016) IC2S2, 2016	conference poster
Understanding Diffusion with netdiffuseR (March 28, 2016) Sunbelt Conference, 2016	conference workshop

2013

Title	Type
Just tired of endless loops! or parallel: Stata module for parallel computing (July 18, 2013) Stata Conference, 2013	conference talk