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Cristian Luis Huepe Minoletti

Adjunct Professor

Northwestern University

Evanston, Estados Unidos

Líneas de Investigación


Research lines: Various complex systems from a nonequilibrium statistical physics & dynamical systems perspective. Specifically: collective motion, active matter, swarm robotics, evolutionary systems, complex networks & opinion formation dynamics.

Educación

  •  Physics, ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE DE PARIS. Francia, 1999
  •  Physics, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 1993

Experiencia Académica

  •   Postdoctoral Research Associate Full Time

    UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

    Chicago, IL, Estados Unidos

    2000 - 2002

  •   Postdoctoral Fellow Part Time

    NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

    Evanston, IL, Estados Unidos

    2002 - 2005

  •   Visiting Scholar Part Time

    NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

    Evanston, IL, Estados Unidos

    2005 - 2011

  •   Adjunct Professor Full Time

    NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

    Evanston, IL, Estados Unidos

    2014 - A la fecha

  •   Visiting Research Scientist Full Time

    CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

    Kowloon, Hong Kong

    2008 - 2008

  •   PI National Science Foundation grantee: "Collective behavior of complex systems with long-range effective interactions: a network approach" Part Time

    Unaffiliated

    Chicago, IL, Estados Unidos

    2005 - 2008

  •   Guest Scientist Full Time

    Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme

    Dresden, Alemania

    2011 - 2013

  •   Founder & Research Scientist Part Time

    CHuepe Labs Inc.

    Chicago, IL, Estados Unidos

    2005 - A la fecha

  •   PI National Science Foundation grantee: "Theoretical & experimental study of collective motion dynamics" Part Time

    CHuepe Labs Inc.

    Chicago, IL, Estados Unidos

    2009 - 2014

  •   Visiting Professor Full Time

    HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITAT ZU BERLIN

    Berlin, Alemania

    2014 - 2014

  •   Visiting Researcher Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Santiago, Chile

    2016 - 2017

  •   External Fellow Other

    MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

    Ankara, Turquia

    2017 - 2018

  •   External Researcher Part Time

    BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY

    Beijing, China

    2016 - A la fecha

  •   External Researcher Part Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Facultad de Comunicaciones

    Santiago, Chile

    2017 - A la fecha

  •   Adjunct Research Professor Part Time

    NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

    Evanston, IL, Estados Unidos

    2014 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Head Quantitative Researcher Other

    Social Listening Lab, Facultad de Comunicaciones UC Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2017 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Graduated Co-advised PhD students:
1) Dr. Ali Emre Turgut: PhD graduate from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Currently at the Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
2) Dr. Eliseo Ferrante: PhD graduate from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Currently at Middlesex University in Dubai (United Arab Emirates).

Currently Co-advised PhD students:
1) Yating Zheng: PhD student at IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
2) Yinong Zhao: PhD student at the Institute for Theoretical Biology, Department of Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Currently Co-advised master students
1) Ihsan Caner Boz: Master student at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
2) Guozheng Lin: Master student at the School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, China

PhD Thesis Jury member for:
1) Li Jiang: PhD graduate from the Université de Toulouse III. Currently at Beijing Normal University, China

Co-supervised postdoctoral researchers:
1) Andrey Zokolov: Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University under my NSF collaborative project. Currently at Argonne National Labs (USA)
2) Shrada Mishra: Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University under my NSF collaborative project. Currently at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi (India)
3) Prof. Li Chen: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems during my visiting work there. Currently at the School of Physics and Information Technology?Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an (China)


Difusión y Transferencia


The dissemination and transfer of Prof. Huepe's work is guaranteed by the highly interdisciplinary nature of his work and numerous collaborators in diverse fields. His Swarm robotics work is in collaboration with mechanical engineers such as Prof. Ali Emre Turgut. His biological complexity work is in collaboration with biologists such as Prof. Iain Couzin.

His work on social network opinion dynamics within the Social Listening Lab (SoL-UC), in collaboration with Prof. Eduardo Arriagada, Dean at the Faculty of Communications of the UC Chile, has produced multiple consulting and advisory reports on opinions on online social networks for public and private organizations, including the Chilean Ministry of Education, Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, ENEL, CMPC, and Imagen de Chile.

In addition, Prof. Huepe regularly gives a mini-course and lecture series on Complex Systems with the support of the Casa de Goethe, in Santiago, Chile.
He also has also written opinion pieces for Chilean magazines, such as:
• Apr 2018: Opinion piece in Chilean magazine Revista Mensaje on the post-truth era & politics https://www.mensaje.cl/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/MSJ_668_may_2018.pdf#page=28

Finally, Prof Huepe appears regularly in interviews on science in the Chilean and international media, as in the following recent interviews:

• Apr 2020: Interview in Chilean newspaper La Tercera on Misinformation during the COVID-19 Pandemic https://www.latercera.com/la-tercera-domingo/noticia/cristian-huepe-si-algo-positivo-puede-salir-de-esto-es-que-se-entienda-que-todos-tenemos-que-compartir-una-realidad-comun/M4NTUHUOJRGLBMCVGV6P2NVVZQ/
• Apr 2020: Interview in Chilean podcast Crónica Estéreo on The Cost of Misinformation & Post-Truth in the COVID-19 Pandemic https://open.spotify.com/episode/6gvIeEwYrdRZ0FG1Spo0Ss
• Feb 2020: Interview in Chilean newspaper La Tercera on Big Data, Fake News and Polarization https://www.latercera.com/la-tercera-pm/noticia/cristian-huepe-fisico-experto-big-data-creer-cualquier-noticia-confirma-prejuicios-deberia-impulsarnos-intentar-domar-las-redes-sociales-presentan-gran-riesgo/1016884/
• Mar 2019: Interview in Chilean newspaper Mercurio de Antofagasta on Digital Misinformation in Chile & abroad http://www.mercurioantofagasta.cl/impresa/2019/03/16/full/cuerpo-principal/2/
• Dec 2018: Interview in Chilean radio show & podcast Caverna Digital on The Threat for Chile of Digital Misinformation https://www.pauta.cl/podcasts/caverna-digital/cristian-huepe-las-fake-news-si-son-una-amenaza-para-chile



 

Article (28)

Experimental capabilities and limitations of a position-based control algorithm for swarm robotics
Interaction network effects on position- and velocity-based models of collective motion
Modular hierarchical and power-law small-world networks bear structural optima for minimal first passage times and cover time
Scale invariance in natural and artificial collective systems: a review
Adaptive network models of collective decision making in swarming systems
Scale-Free Correlations in Flocking Systems with Position-Based Interactions
Collective motion dynamics of active solids and active crystals
Elasticity-Based Mechanism for the Collective Motion of Self-Propelled Particles with Springlike Interactions: A Model System for Natural and Artificial Swarms
Collective dynamics of self-propelled particles with variable speed
Early fragmentation in the adaptive voter model on directed networks
Adaptive-network models of swarm dynamics
Inferring the structure and dynamics of interactions in schooling fish
Flocking with informed agents
Intrinsic and extrinsic noise effects on phase transitions of network models with applications to swarming systems
Modeling Phase Transition in Self-organized Mobile Robot Flocks
New tools for characterizing swarming systems: A comparison of minimal models
Phase transitions in systems of self-propelled agents and related network models
Forcing function control of Faraday wave instabilities in viscous shallow fluids
Intermittency and clustering in a system of self-driven particles
Statistics of defect trajectories in spatio-temporal chaos in inclined layer convection and the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation
Phase transitions in self-driven many-particle systems and related non-equilibrium models: A network approach
Stability and decay rates of nonisotropic attractive Bose-Einstein condensates
Dynamical phase transition in a neural network model with noise: An exact solution
Dynamics of the convergence towards a self-similar blowup solution in a simplified model of aggregation
Generic inflationary and noninflationary behavior in toy-cosmology
Scaling laws for vortical nucleation solutions in a model of superflow
Subcritical dissipation in three-dimensional superflows
Decay rates in attractive Bose-Einstein condensates

ConferencePaper (2)

Scale-free correlations in collective motion with position-based interactions
Generating Music from Flocking Dynamics
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Cristian Huepe

Adjunct Professor

Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

Northwestern University

Evanston, Estados Unidos