Xiaoran Yan

Xiaoran Yan is an assistant research scientist at Indiana University Network Science Institute. He worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Information Sciences Institute of University of Southern California. Before that, he was a graduate fellow at Santa Fe Institute. He received a Ph.D. in computer science at University of New Mexico.

Areas of Expertise

Xiaoran Yan’s research concerns mathematical theories and models of networks, with a focus on community structures and dynamical processes on networks. Through cross-disciplinary collaborations, his work is being applied to diverse areas including social networks, neuroimaging and science of science studies.