
Currículum Vitae
Nombre y Apellidos: Yérali Carolina del Carmen Gandica López.
Asignaturas:
- Series temporales - Grado en Matemáticas
- Minería de Datos - Grado en Matemáticas
Titulación, institución y año de finalización:
Doctora en Física. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones científicas, 2012
Experiencia Profesional:
Periodo | Puesto/ Institución/ País |
2023-abierto | Associate Professor (profesor adjunto)/ Universidad Internacional de Valencia. Dep. Matemáticas y Master en Big Data. España. |
2019-2022 | Assistant Professor/ Université Cergy-Pontoise. Dep. Física & Bachelor en Data Science. Francia. |
Ene-Dic 2018 | Associate Scientific Researcher/Université catholique de Louvain/ ICTEAM/ Bélgica. |
2016-2017 | Postdoctoral Researcher/Univ. Namur. Departamento de Gestión /Bélgica. |
2014-2016 | Postdoctoral Researcher/Univ. Namur. Departamento de Matemáticas /Bélgica. |
Líneas de Investigación:
- Modelos basados en agentes (ABM)
- Redes complejas (ciencia de las redes)
- Big Data
- Redes financieras
Publicaciones relevantes:
Signs of criticality in social explosions. Mariano G. Beiró, Ning Ning Chung, Lock Yue Chew and Yérali Gandica, “Sci Rep 14, 3263 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53657-1
- Bali’s ancient rice terraces: A Hamiltonian approach. Yérali Gandica , J. Stephen
Lansing, Stefan Thurner, Ning Ning Chung and Lock Yue Chew. Phys. Rev.Lett. 127, 168301.
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.168301 (2021). Cited 3 times.
- Measuring the effect of node aggregation on community detection. Yérali Gandica, Adeline
Decuyper, Christophe Cloquet, Isabelle Thomas and Jean-Charles Delvenne. EPJ Data Sci. 9,
6. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-020-00223-0 (2020). Cited 4 times.
- The role of homophily in the emergence of opinion controversies . Floriana Gargiulo and
Yérali Gandica. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Journal of Artificial Societies and Social
Simulation (JASSS) 20(3)8.(2017). Cited 41 times.
- Stationarity of the interevent powerlaw distributions. Yérali Gandica, João Carvalho
Fernando Sampaio dos Aidos, Renaud Lambiotte and Timoteo Carletti. PLoS ONE 12(3):
e0174509. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0174509 (2017). Cited 22 times.
- Self-Replicating spots in the brusselator model and extreme events in the one-dimensional
case with delay. Mustapha Tlidi, Yérali Gandica, Giorgio Sonnino, Etienne Averlant and Krassimir
Panajotov. Entropy 18, 64; doi:10.3390/e18030064 (2016). Cited 23 times.
- Wikipedia editing dynamics. Yérali Gandica, João Carvalho and Fernando Sampaio dos
Aidos. Physical Review E 91, 012824 (2015). Cited 15 times.
- The dynamic nature of conflict in Wikipedia. Yérali Gandica, Fernando Sampaio dos
Aidos and João Carvalho. EPL 108,18003 (2014). Cited 14 times.
- Cluster size entropy in the Axelrod model of social influence: Small world networks and
mass media. Yérali Gandica, A. Charmell, J. VillegasFebres and I. Bonalde. Physical Review E. 84
046109 (2011). Cited 28 times.
- Continuous opinion model in smallworld directed networks. Yérali Gandica, Marcelo del
Castillo Mussot, Gerardo Vásquez and Sergio Rojas, Physica A 389 24, 5864–5870 (2010). Cited 52 times
Otros méritos:
Premios y reconocimientos
- 2019 - Poster-Award by Nature Sustainability. Conference of Complex Systems, CCS-2019.
- 2008 - Santa Fe Institute’s Grant 2008 for the Complex Systems Summer School.
- 2010 - Qualification Researcher A. Program to Stimulate Reserarching. Fonacit. Venezuela.
- 2005 - Prize: Outstanding dissertation for Licenciatura in Physics Thesis Dissertation. University Simón Bolívar. Caracas. Venezuela
Proyectos competitivos
1) Proyecto: Signs of criticality in social explosions. Funding agency: Labex MME-DII, under the program: CY Initiative of Excellence. 2022. Budget: 5k eu. Resposabilidad:Investigador principal (PI).
2) Proyecto: Understanding opinion and dynamics using massive data (opladyn). Funding agency: Digging into Data Challenge (TAP-DD) del consorcio: Trans-Atlantic Platfform for Social Sciences and Humanities. 2019. Responsabilidad: Investigador.http://project.u-cergy.fr/~opladyn/consortium/french-partners/
3) Proyecto: Regional and global economic integration of Ethiopia in the 21st century. Funding Agency: Gent University, programa :NASCERE. 2021. Responsabilidad: Co-tutora del estudiante de Doctorado, (en cotutela con el Prof. Luis E. C. Rocha)
Estancias de investigación
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. July-August, 2024 (one month).
- Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados (IMEDEA). University of Baleares Islands. Spain. Supervisors: Maxi San Miguel and Víctor Eguiluz. Jan-Feb, 2007.
- Universidad Autónoma de México. Supervisor: Marcelo del Castillo Mussot.
May-June, 2008.
- 2018: Visiting Researcher at GEMASS Groupe d'Etude des Méthodes de l'Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne. January 2018. Contact researcher: Floriana Gargiulo.
Jan-April 2019: Visiting Fellow. Complexity Institute. Nanyang Technological
University (NTU). Singapore
Otras publicaciones
23. Detection and effect of social events on Wikipedia data-set for studying human preferences. Julien Assuied and Yérali Gandica. Frontiers in Big Data. Sec. Data Science 6, 2023. Doi: 10.3389/fdata.2023.1077318.
22. The consequences of hesitation: Axelrod model with intrinsic noise. Rémi Perrier, Yérali Gandica and Laura Hernández. PLoS ONE 16(11): e0259295. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259295 (2021).
21. Bali’s ancient rice terraces: A Hamiltonian approach. Yérali Gandica, J. Stephen Lansing, Stefan Thurner, Ning Ning Chung and Lock Yue Chew. Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 168301.DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.168301 (2021).
20. A multilevel analysis of financial institutions’ systemic exposure from local and system-wide information. Yérali Gandica, Sophie Béreau and Jean-Yves Gnabo. Sci Rep 10, 17657.DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74259-7 (2020).
19. The free and freer XY models. Petter Holme and Yérali Gandica. Phys. Rev. E 101, 032311. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.101.032311 (2020).
18. Measuring the effect of node aggregation on community detection. Yérali Gandica, Adeline Decuyper,Christophe Cloquet, Isabelle Thomas and Jean-Charles Delvenne.EPJ Data Sci. 9, 6. DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-020-00223-0 (2020).
17. Population’s preferences trough Wikipedia edits. Yérali Gandica. 2018 Fifth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS).DOI: 10.1109/SNAMS.2018.8554724. (2018)
16. Fragmentation, integration and macroprudential surveillance of the US financial industry: Insights. from network science. Yérali Gandica, Marco Geraci, Sophie Béreau and JeanYves Gnabo. PloS ONE 13(4): e0195110 (2018).
15. The Role of Homophily in the Emergence of Opinion Controversies. Floriana Gargiulo and YéraliGandica. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS) 20(3)8.(2017).
14. Emergent dense suburbs in a schelling metapopulation model: a simulation approach. Floriana Garguilo, Yérali Gandica and Timoteo Carletti. Advances in Complex Systems 20 No. 1.https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219525917500011 (2017).
13. Stationarity of the interevent powerlaw distributions. Yérali Gandica, João Carvalho, Fernando Sampaio dos Aidos, Renaud Lambiotte and Timoteo Carletti. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0174509.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0174509 (2017).
12. What can Wikipedia tell us about the global or local measurements for burstiness? Yérali Gandica,Renaud Lambiotte and Timoteo Carletti. Proceeding for the 10 th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM16) (2016).
11. Extrems events in the far from equilibrium Brusselator model with delay feedback. Mustapha Tlidi, Yérali Gandica, Giorgio Sonnino, Etienne Averlant and Krassimir Panajotov. Entropy 18, 64;doi:10.3390/e18030064 (2016).
10. Nature of phase transitions in the 2D Axelrodlike coupled Potts models. Yérali Gandica and Silvia Chiacchiera. Phys. Rev. E 93, 032132 (2016).
9. Circadian patterns on Wikipedia edits. Yérali Gandica, João Carvalho, Fernando Sampaio dos Aidos, Renaud Lambiotte and Timoteo Carletti. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Complex Networks, CompleNet 2016.
8. Can topology reshape segregation patterns? Yérali Gandica, Floriana Gargiulo and Timoteo Carletti.Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 90 (2015) 46–54.
7. Wikipedia editing dynamics. Yérali Gandica, João Carvalho and Fernando Sampaio dos Aidos. Physical Review E 91, 012824 (2015).
6. The dynamic nature of conflict in Wikipedia. Yérali Gandica, Fernando Sampaio dos Aidos and João Carvalho. EPL 108,18003 (2014).
5. Hypoxia in vascular networks: a complex system approach to unraveling the Diabetes paradox. Yérali Gandica, Tobias Schwartz, Orlando Oliveira and Rui Travasso. PLoS ONE 9,11 , e113165 (2014).
4. A thermodynamic counterpart of the Axelrod model of social influence: One Dimensional case. Yérali Gandica, Ismardo Bonalde and Ernesto Medina. Physica A 392. Issue: 24. Pages: 65616570 (2013)
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Doctora en Física.
Currículum Vitae
Nombre y Apellidos: Yérali Carolina del Carmen Gandica López.
Asignaturas:
- Series temporales - Grado en Matemáticas
- Minería de Datos - Grado en Matemáticas
Titulación, institución y año de finalización:
Doctora en Física. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones científicas, 2012
Experiencia Profesional:
Periodo | Puesto/ Institución/ País |
2023-abierto | Associate Professor (profesor adjunto)/ Universidad Internacional de Valencia. Dep. Matemáticas y Master en Big Data. España. |
2019-2022 | Assistant Professor/ Université Cergy-Pontoise. Dep. Física & Bachelor en Data Science. Francia. |
Ene-Dic 2018 | Associate Scientific Researcher/Université catholique de Louvain/ ICTEAM/ Bélgica. |
2016-2017 | Postdoctoral Researcher/Univ. Namur. Departamento de Gestión /Bélgica. |
2014-2016 | Postdoctoral Researcher/Univ. Namur. Departamento de Matemáticas /Bélgica. |
Líneas de Investigación:
- Modelos basados en agentes (ABM)
- Redes complejas (ciencia de las redes)
- Big Data
- Redes financieras
Publicaciones relevantes:
Signs of criticality in social explosions. Mariano G. Beiró, Ning Ning Chung, Lock Yue Chew and Yérali Gandica, “Sci Rep 14, 3263 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53657-1
- Bali’s ancient rice terraces: A Hamiltonian approach. Yérali Gandica , J. Stephen
Lansing, Stefan Thurner, Ning Ning Chung and Lock Yue Chew. Phys. Rev.Lett. 127, 168301.
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.168301 (2021). Cited 3 times.
- Measuring the effect of node aggregation on community detection. Yérali Gandica, Adeline
Decuyper, Christophe Cloquet, Isabelle Thomas and Jean-Charles Delvenne. EPJ Data Sci. 9,
6. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-020-00223-0 (2020). Cited 4 times.
- The role of homophily in the emergence of opinion controversies . Floriana Gargiulo and
Yérali Gandica. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Journal of Artificial Societies and Social
Simulation (JASSS) 20(3)8.(2017). Cited 41 times.
- Stationarity of the interevent powerlaw distributions. Yérali Gandica, João Carvalho
Fernando Sampaio dos Aidos, Renaud Lambiotte and Timoteo Carletti. PLoS ONE 12(3):
e0174509. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0174509 (2017). Cited 22 times.
- Self-Replicating spots in the brusselator model and extreme events in the one-dimensional
case with delay. Mustapha Tlidi, Yérali Gandica, Giorgio Sonnino, Etienne Averlant and Krassimir
Panajotov. Entropy 18, 64; doi:10.3390/e18030064 (2016). Cited 23 times.
- Wikipedia editing dynamics. Yérali Gandica, João Carvalho and Fernando Sampaio dos
Aidos. Physical Review E 91, 012824 (2015). Cited 15 times.
- The dynamic nature of conflict in Wikipedia. Yérali Gandica, Fernando Sampaio dos
Aidos and João Carvalho. EPL 108,18003 (2014). Cited 14 times.
- Cluster size entropy in the Axelrod model of social influence: Small world networks and
mass media. Yérali Gandica, A. Charmell, J. VillegasFebres and I. Bonalde. Physical Review E. 84
046109 (2011). Cited 28 times.
- Continuous opinion model in smallworld directed networks. Yérali Gandica, Marcelo del
Castillo Mussot, Gerardo Vásquez and Sergio Rojas, Physica A 389 24, 5864–5870 (2010). Cited 52 times
Otros méritos:
Premios y reconocimientos
- 2019 - Poster-Award by Nature Sustainability. Conference of Complex Systems, CCS-2019.
- 2008 - Santa Fe Institute’s Grant 2008 for the Complex Systems Summer School.
- 2010 - Qualification Researcher A. Program to Stimulate Reserarching. Fonacit. Venezuela.
- 2005 - Prize: Outstanding dissertation for Licenciatura in Physics Thesis Dissertation. University Simón Bolívar. Caracas. Venezuela
Proyectos competitivos
1) Proyecto: Signs of criticality in social explosions. Funding agency: Labex MME-DII, under the program: CY Initiative of Excellence. 2022. Budget: 5k eu. Resposabilidad:Investigador principal (PI).
2) Proyecto: Understanding opinion and dynamics using massive data (opladyn). Funding agency: Digging into Data Challenge (TAP-DD) del consorcio: Trans-Atlantic Platfform for Social Sciences and Humanities. 2019. Responsabilidad: Investigador.http://project.u-cergy.fr/~opladyn/consortium/french-partners/
3) Proyecto: Regional and global economic integration of Ethiopia in the 21st century. Funding Agency: Gent University, programa :NASCERE. 2021. Responsabilidad: Co-tutora del estudiante de Doctorado, (en cotutela con el Prof. Luis E. C. Rocha)
Estancias de investigación
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. July-August, 2024 (one month).
- Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados (IMEDEA). University of Baleares Islands. Spain. Supervisors: Maxi San Miguel and Víctor Eguiluz. Jan-Feb, 2007.
- Universidad Autónoma de México. Supervisor: Marcelo del Castillo Mussot.
May-June, 2008.
- 2018: Visiting Researcher at GEMASS Groupe d'Etude des Méthodes de l'Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne. January 2018. Contact researcher: Floriana Gargiulo.
Jan-April 2019: Visiting Fellow. Complexity Institute. Nanyang Technological
University (NTU). Singapore
Otras publicaciones
23. Detection and effect of social events on Wikipedia data-set for studying human preferences. Julien Assuied and Yérali Gandica. Frontiers in Big Data. Sec. Data Science 6, 2023. Doi: 10.3389/fdata.2023.1077318.
22. The consequences of hesitation: Axelrod model with intrinsic noise. Rémi Perrier, Yérali Gandica and Laura Hernández. PLoS ONE 16(11): e0259295. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259295 (2021).
21. Bali’s ancient rice terraces: A Hamiltonian approach. Yérali Gandica, J. Stephen Lansing, Stefan Thurner, Ning Ning Chung and Lock Yue Chew. Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 168301.DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.168301 (2021).
20. A multilevel analysis of financial institutions’ systemic exposure from local and system-wide information. Yérali Gandica, Sophie Béreau and Jean-Yves Gnabo. Sci Rep 10, 17657.DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74259-7 (2020).
19. The free and freer XY models. Petter Holme and Yérali Gandica. Phys. Rev. E 101, 032311. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.101.032311 (2020).
18. Measuring the effect of node aggregation on community detection. Yérali Gandica, Adeline Decuyper,Christophe Cloquet, Isabelle Thomas and Jean-Charles Delvenne.EPJ Data Sci. 9, 6. DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-020-00223-0 (2020).
17. Population’s preferences trough Wikipedia edits. Yérali Gandica. 2018 Fifth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS).DOI: 10.1109/SNAMS.2018.8554724. (2018)
16. Fragmentation, integration and macroprudential surveillance of the US financial industry: Insights. from network science. Yérali Gandica, Marco Geraci, Sophie Béreau and JeanYves Gnabo. PloS ONE 13(4): e0195110 (2018).
15. The Role of Homophily in the Emergence of Opinion Controversies. Floriana Gargiulo and YéraliGandica. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS) 20(3)8.(2017).
14. Emergent dense suburbs in a schelling metapopulation model: a simulation approach. Floriana Garguilo, Yérali Gandica and Timoteo Carletti. Advances in Complex Systems 20 No. 1.https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219525917500011 (2017).
13. Stationarity of the interevent powerlaw distributions. Yérali Gandica, João Carvalho, Fernando Sampaio dos Aidos, Renaud Lambiotte and Timoteo Carletti. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0174509.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0174509 (2017).
12. What can Wikipedia tell us about the global or local measurements for burstiness? Yérali Gandica,Renaud Lambiotte and Timoteo Carletti. Proceeding for the 10 th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM16) (2016).
11. Extrems events in the far from equilibrium Brusselator model with delay feedback. Mustapha Tlidi, Yérali Gandica, Giorgio Sonnino, Etienne Averlant and Krassimir Panajotov. Entropy 18, 64;doi:10.3390/e18030064 (2016).
10. Nature of phase transitions in the 2D Axelrodlike coupled Potts models. Yérali Gandica and Silvia Chiacchiera. Phys. Rev. E 93, 032132 (2016).
9. Circadian patterns on Wikipedia edits. Yérali Gandica, João Carvalho, Fernando Sampaio dos Aidos, Renaud Lambiotte and Timoteo Carletti. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Complex Networks, CompleNet 2016.
8. Can topology reshape segregation patterns? Yérali Gandica, Floriana Gargiulo and Timoteo Carletti.Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 90 (2015) 46–54.
7. Wikipedia editing dynamics. Yérali Gandica, João Carvalho and Fernando Sampaio dos Aidos. Physical Review E 91, 012824 (2015).
6. The dynamic nature of conflict in Wikipedia. Yérali Gandica, Fernando Sampaio dos Aidos and João Carvalho. EPL 108,18003 (2014).
5. Hypoxia in vascular networks: a complex system approach to unraveling the Diabetes paradox. Yérali Gandica, Tobias Schwartz, Orlando Oliveira and Rui Travasso. PLoS ONE 9,11 , e113165 (2014).
4. A thermodynamic counterpart of the Axelrod model of social influence: One Dimensional case. Yérali Gandica, Ismardo Bonalde and Ernesto Medina. Physica A 392. Issue: 24. Pages: 65616570 (2013)
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