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Mikko Kivelä
Google Scholar ID: Z3913I0AAAAJ
Associate professor, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University
network science
complex networks
computational social science
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Citations
5,411
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25
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38
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20
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39
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Publications
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Political polarization and mental wellbeing: asymmetric evidence for bidirectionality
2026
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Competing for a Finite Pool of Attention in Social Media? How a New Geopolitical Conflict Reshapes Engagement in Bluesky
2026
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Echoes in the Sky: Computational Thematic Analysis of Online Public Discourse on Bluesky Across Trump's Reelection
2026
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Social Media Data Toolkit: Standardization and Anonymization of Social Network Datasets
2026
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Beyond Disinformation: Strategic Misrepresentation across Content, Actors, Processes, and Covertness
2026
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Detecting Coordinated Activities Through Temporal, Multiplex, and Collaborative Analysis
2025
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Politics and polarization on Bluesky
2025
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Block-corrected Modularity for Community Detection
2025
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Academic Achievements
Published multiple research works on complex networks, including:
- Polarized and nonpolarized Twitter networks from the 2019 Finnish Parliamentary Elections
- Networks of Nokia investors (1998–2002)
- 100 years of citation networks
- Finnish Last.fm social network and gender analysis
- Mapping temporal-network percolation to weighted, static event graphs
- Stochastic block model revealing citation patterns and their temporal evolution
- Isomorphisms in multilayer networks
- Estimating inter-event time distributions in communication networks
Developed the Multilayer Networks Library.
Background
Network scientist and Associate Professor at Aalto University.
Academic background spans mathematics, computer science, and physics.
Prefers interdisciplinary research with real-world applications involving data, models, and algorithms.
Research focuses on complex systems such as social, transportation, gene-regulatory, and ecological networks.
Emphasizes realistic network representations including weighted, temporal, and multilayer networks.
Co-authors
12 total
Kimmo Kaski
Professor of Computational Science, Aalto University School of Science
Mason Porter
UCLA
Alex Arenas
Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Yamir Moreno
Institute BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Márton Karsai
Central European University
Marc Barthelemy
Institut de Physique Theorique (CEA) and Centre d'Analyse et de Mathematique Sociales (EHESS)
Ted Hsuan Yun Chen
Assistant Professor, George Mason University
Manlio De Domenico
Università degli studi di Padova