Albert-László Barabási

Albert-László Barabási (born March 30, 1967) is a Romanian-born Hungarian-American physicist, renowned for his pioneering discoveries in network science and network medicine.

He is a distinguished university professor and Robert Gray Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University, holding additional appointments at the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Department of Network and Data Science at Central European University. Barabási previously served as the former Emil T. Hofmann Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame and was an associate member of the Center of Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University.

In 1999 Barabási discovered the concept of scale-free networks and proposed the Barabási–Albert model, which explains the widespread emergence of such networks in natural, technological and social systems, including the World Wide Web and online communities. Barabási is the founding president of the Network Science Society, which sponsors the flagship NetSci Conference established in 2006. Provided by Wikipedia