Alfredo J. Morales is an Assistant Professor at NECSI. Morales contributes to building a better understanding of social systems by developing computational and analytical methods based on complex systems science and data science. His work is at the intersection of computer science, statistics, applied physics and artificial intelligence. He analyzes large datasets that result from human activity on social media, internet, mobile phones or purchases in order to retrieve unstructured patterns of collective behaviors that explain large scale societal properties, such as social dynamics, urban dynamics, segregation, political engagement, political polarization and social influence.

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Curriculum Vitae

Papers

  1. PJ Zufiria, et al. Identifying Seasonal Mobility Profiles From Anonymized and Aggregated Mobile Phone Data. Application In Food Security. PLoS ONE 13(4): e0195714. April 26, 2018.

  2. L Hedayatifar, Y Bar-Yam, AJ Morales. Social Fragmentation at Multiple Scales. arXiv:1809.07676. September 20, 2018.

  3. AJ Morales, V. Vailala, RM Benito, Y Bar-Yam. Global Patterns of Synchronization in Human Communications. Journal of Royal Society Interface, 14 (128), 20161048.

  4. AJ Morales, J Borondo, JC Losada, RM Benito. Efficiency of human activity on information spreading on Twitter. Social Networks 39, 1-11. 2014

  5. AJ Morales, J Borondo, JC Losada, RM Benito. Measuring political polarization: Twitter shows the two sides of Venezuela. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 25, 033114. 2015

  6. D Pastor-Escuredo, A Morales-Guzmán, Y Torres-Fernández, Alex Rutherford, et al.. Flooding through the lens of mobile phone activity. Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), IEEE, 279-286. 2014 


  7. J Borondo, AJ Morales, JC Losada, RM Benito. Characterizing and modeling an electoral campaign in the context of Twitter: 2011 Spanish Presidential election as a case study.. Chaos: an interdisciplinary journal of nonlinear science 22 (2), 023138. 2012

  8. AJ Morales, JC Losada, RM Benito. Users structure and behavior on an online social network during a political protest. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (21), 5244-5253. 2012

  9. AJ Morales, W Creixell, J Borondo, JC Losada, RM Benito. Characterizing ethnic interactions from human communication patterns in Ivory Coast. Networks and Heterogeneous Media 10 (1), 87–99. 2015


  10. J Borondo, AJ Morales, RM Benito, JC Losada. Mapping the online communication patterns of political conversations. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 414, 403-413. 2014 


  11. J Borondo, AJ Morales, RM Benito, JC Losada. Multiple leaders on a multilayer social media. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 72, 90-98. 2015 


  12. S Martin-Gutierrez, J Borondo, AJ Morales, JC Losada, AM Tarquis, et al. Agricultural activity shapes the communication and migration patterns in Senegal. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 26 (6), 065305. 2016

  13. AJ Morales, W Creixell, J Borondo, JC Losada, RM Benito. Understanding ethnical interactions on Ivory Coast. Proceedings of the Third Conference on the Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets. 2013.


  14. D Evans, F Nijhout, R Parens, AJ Morales, Y Bar-Yam. A possible link between pyriproxyfen and microcephaly. Available at SSRN. 2016

  15. AJ Morales, JC Losada, RM Benito. Structure and dynamics of emerging social networks from twitter’s conversation. Int J Complex Systems in Science 1 (2), 216-220. 2011


  16. AJ Morales, V Vavilala, RM Benito, Y Bar-Yam. Global Patterns of Human Synchronization. arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.06219. 2016

Proceedings

  1. AJ Morales, C Gershenson, D Braha, AA Minai, Y Bar-Yam. Unifying Themes in Complex Systems IX. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Complex Systems (Springer, 2018).

  2. AJ Morales, W Creixell, J Borondo, JC Losada, RM Benito. Understanding ethnical interactions on Ivory Coast. Proceedings of the Third Conference on the Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets 2013

  3. AJ Morales, J Borondo, JC Losada, RM Benito. Characterizing and Modeling Collective Behavior in Complex Events on Twitter. Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems, 643-649. 2012

  4. A Morales, D Pastor et al. Studying human behavior through the lens of mobile phones during floods. Netmob 2015.


  5. Alfredo J Morales, Javier Borondo, Juan Carlos Losada and Rosa M. Benito. Efficiency of human activity on information spreading on Twitter. DDAYS 2013


  6. Rosa Benito, A. Morales, J.C. Losada. Dynamics in a social network surrounding an online political protest. 9th AIMS Conference.

  7. F. Javier Borondo, A .J. Morales, J.C. Losada, R.M. Benito. Analyzing offline events through the mirror of online social networks. 9th AIMS Conference. 2012.

  8. Rosa M. Benito, Javier Borondo, Alfredo J. Morales and Juan Carlos Losada. Multiple opinion leaders in a multi-layer social network. DDAYS, 2013

  9. S Martín, J Borondo, AJ Morales, JC Losada, AM Tarquis, RM Benito. Phone traffic as a measurement of agricultural events. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 17, 14947. 2015