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M. Amin Rahimian

University of Pitttsburgh

135 N Bellefield Ave

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

16

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1,753

TOTAL CITATIONS

41

Scholarly Papers (16)

1.

Providing normative information increases intentions to accept a COVID-19 vaccine

Nature Communications volume 14, Article number: 126 (2023)
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Rutgers University, New Jersey, University of Pitttsburgh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and MIT Sloan School of Management
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COVID-19, descriptive norms, social influence, vaccine hesitancy

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Structural Measures of Resilience for Supply Chains

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 03 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2026
Marios Papachristou, M. Amin Rahimian and A. Azadegan
Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Information Systems, University of Pitttsburgh and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Business School at Newark & New Brunswick
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supply chain resilience, systemic risk, production networks, cascading failures, structural complexity

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Seeding with Costly Network Information

Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2022.2290
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 03 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 23 May 2022
MIT Sloan School of Management, Google Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Pitttsburgh
Downloads 112 (630,858)
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Viral marketing, influence maximization, social networks, submodular maximization, query oracle

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Long Ties Accelerate Noisy Threshold-based Contagions

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 22 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2023
Dean Eckles, Elchanan Mossel, M. Amin Rahimian and Subhabrata Sen
MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Pitttsburgh and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 110 (640,165)
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social networks, game dynamics, social contagion

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When Social Influence Promotes the Wisdom of Crowds

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2021
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Pitttsburgh, Birkbeck, University of London and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 106 (659,652)
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Wisdom of Crowds, Collective Estimation, Social Influence, Collective Intelligence

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Bayesian Decision Making in Groups is Hard

Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2020.2000
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2021
Jan Hązła, Ali Jadbabaie, Elchanan Mossel and M. Amin Rahimian
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Pitttsburgh
Downloads 103 (674,591)
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Observational Learning, Bayesian Decision Theory, Computational Complexity, Group Decision-Making, Computational Social Choice, Inference over Graphs

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Differentially Private Distributed Inference

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 12 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2025
Marios Papachristou and M. Amin Rahimian
Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Information Systems and University of Pitttsburgh
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distributed estimation, distributed learning, online learning, differential privacy, group decision-making

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Measuring Network Dynamics of Opioid Overdose Deaths in the United States

Scientific Reports, volume 14, issue 1, 2024[10.1038/s41598-024-80627-4]
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 06 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2025
University of Pittsburgh - Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pitttsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Health Policy and Management and University of Pittsburgh - School of Public Health
Downloads 56 (1,000,027)

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Computationally Efficient Estimation of Localized Treatment Effects for Multi-Level, Multi-Component Interventions to Address the Opioid Crisis

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Jan 2026 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2026
University of Pittsburgh, University of Pitttsburgh, Pennsylvania State University and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Health Policy and Management
Downloads 55 (1,020,567)

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metamodel, large-scale simulation, sequential design, model selection, epidemiological models, precision public health

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Privacy-Aware Sequential Learning

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 19 Sep 2025 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2025
Yuxin Liu and M. Amin Rahimian
University of Pittsburgh and University of Pitttsburgh
Downloads 42 (1,157,785)

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Sequential Learning, Privacy-Preserving Learning, Information Cascade, Learning Efficiency

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Seeding with Differentially Private Network Information

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Dec 2025 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2026
Yuxin Liu, M. Amin Rahimian and Fang-Yi Yu
University of Pittsburgh, University of Pitttsburgh and George Mason University
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Social Networks, Differential Privacy, Influence Maximization, Sample Complexity, Approximation Algorithms, Sexual Behavior, HIV, Public Health

12.

Democratic Resilience and Sociotechnical Shocks

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 0[10.1007/s10588-025-09394-5]
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2025
M. Amin Rahimian and Michael P. Colaresi
University of Pitttsburgh and University of Pittsburgh
Downloads 34 (1,263,436)

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Election Security, Sociotechnical Infrastructure, Democratic Resilience, Online Harassment, Civic Networks, Attrition, Unraveling Dynamics

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Extended Persistent Homology Distinguishes Simple and Complex Contagions with High Accuracy

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Jun 2025
Vahid Shamsaddini and M. Amin Rahimian
Sharif University of Technology and University of Pitttsburgh
Downloads 27 (1,359,097)

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Structural Dynamics of Harmful Content Dissemination on WhatsApp

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 18 Sep 2025
Yuxin Liu, M. Amin Rahimian and Kiran Garimella
University of Pittsburgh, University of Pitttsburgh and Rutgers University, New Jersey
Downloads 23 (1,411,822)

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Socio-Spatial Patterns of Suicide Mortality in the United States

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Mar 2026
University of Pittsburgh - Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pitttsburgh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Old Dominion University and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Health Policy and Management
Downloads 18 (1,470,786)

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Differential Privacy for Network Connectedness Indices

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 27 Mar 2026
Tom Rutter, Yuxin Liu and M. Amin Rahimian
Stanford University, University of Pittsburgh and University of Pitttsburgh
Downloads 14 (1,509,872)

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differential privacy, network statistics, social networks, connectedness indices, privacy-utility tradeoff