Reflections from the NetSciX'25 Keynote

I was proud to give a keynote at NetSciX’25 in Indore, India. NetSciX is the flagship winter conference of the Network Science Society.

My talk, “Using an Interaction-Driven Contagion Model to Understand the Temporal Dynamics of Disease Spread,” summarized three recently published papers. These works focused on a novel temporal model for analyzing the dynamic interplay between people’s interactions and the spread of airborne diseases.

Through unique temporal modeling, we showed that:

• The temporal dynamics of a community have a more significant effect on the spread of the disease than the characteristics of the spreading processes
• When considering airborne diseases, it is important to consider the duration of temporal meetings to model the spread of pathogens in a population
• The enigmatic nature of asymptomatic transmission stems from the latent effect of the network density, and has a substantial impact only in sparse communities

Many thanks to my former lab members Alex Abbey and Yanir Marmor, and our collaborator Yuval Shahar.

I am thankful for the opportunity to share and engage in such a vibrant scientific community!