Ben Edwards

Analysis of Internet Growth

Using a refinement of the ASIM model created by Peter Holme, we work to analyze Internet growth at the Autonomous Systems level, and determine how future regulation and attack might affect the topology and function of the Internet. To be published at WEIS Modeling Internet-Scale Policies for Cleaning up Malware

Network Measures and Internet Topology Models

Evaluating various types of network measures, and how the myriad of models of Internet growth perform under these measures.

Negative Representations of Data

I worked with Michael Groat to extend negative representations of data to real continuous valued data. Submission searching for conference Enhancing Privacy in Participatory Sensing Applications with Multidimensional Data.

Small World Networks

I am interested in demographic processes which lead to the creation of small world networks. Work ongoing.

Social Networks

Analysis of the relationship between edge and node attributes and topological structure in real world social networks. Work ongoing.

Graphs in Metric Spaces

Analysis of graphs embedded in metric spaces and their application to sensor networks. Work ongoing.

Phase Transition in Obscure NP-Complete Problems

Evaluating the phase transition of the likelihood of solvability for random instances of obscure NP-Complete Problems. Work ongoing.

NetworkX

I use and try to contribute to NetworkX, a python network analysis toolkit, as often as possible. *NetworkX is participating in Google Summer of Code!* Check out my applications(1, 2), and my Summer of Code Blog!

Python

I maintain a small library of python utilities that I've written myself and collected from various sources, that I find useful, called python_lib. I also actively use numpy and scipy, and have done a small amount of package maitanence for sage.

Org-mode and Emacs

I use org-mode and emacs for almost all of my work thanks to the influence of Eric Schulte

• I run the adaptive reading seminar for my lab.
• I am currently enrolled as a doctoral student at the University of New Mexico, in Stephanie Forrest's Adaptive Systems Lab.
• I have taken classes in in the Sociology department at the University of New Mexico.
• I received by bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Engineering, with a minor in Computer Science in 2006 from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Ben Edwards bedwards <at> cs <dot> unm <dot> edu Farris Engineering Center 355d University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131