(2023) Meta Foundational Integrity Research Award.
(2022) Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant.
(2022) Pitt Momentum Funds.
(2021) Facebook Statistics for Improving Insights, Models, and Decisions request for proposals, Finalist.
(2021) Most Inspiring Research Paper Award at the ACM Collective Intelligence Conference.
Burton, J.W., Almaatouq, A., Rahimian, M.A., & Hahn, U. (2024). Algorithmically mediating communication to enhance collective decision-making in online social networks. Collective Intelligence, 3(2).SAGE Publications. doi: 10.1177/26339137241241307.
Eckles, D., Mossel, E., Rahimian, M.A., & Sen, S. (2024). Long ties accelerate noisy threshold-based contagions. NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR, 8(6), 1057-1064.Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi: 10.1038/s41562-024-01865-0.
Papachristou, M., & Rahimian, M.A. (2024). Differentially private distributed estimation and learning. IISE TRANSACTIONS, 1-17.Informa UK Limited. doi: 10.1080/24725854.2024.2337068.
Fang, F., Liu, P., Song, L., Wagner, P., Bartlett, D., Ma, L., Li, X., Rahimian, M.A., Tseng, G., Randhawa, P., & Xiao, K. (2023). Diagnosis of T-cell-mediated kidney rejection by biopsy-based proteomic biomarkers and machine learning. FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY, 14, 1090373.Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1090373.
Moehring, A., Collis, A., Garimella, K., Rahimian, M.A., Aral, S., & Eckles, D. (2023). Providing normative information increases intentions to accept a COVID-19 vaccine. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 14(1), 126.Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35052-4.
Papachristou, M., & Rahimian, M.A. (2023). Production Networks Resilience: Cascading Failures, Power Laws and Optimal Interventions. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2303.12660.
Rahimian, M.A., Yu, F.Y., & Hurtado Campo, C.E. (2023). Seeding with Differentially Private Network Information. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2305.16590.
Almaatouq, A., Rahimian, M.A., Burton, J.W., & Alhajri, A. (2022). The distribution of initial estimates moderates the effect of social influence on the wisdom of the crowd. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 12(1), 16546.Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-20551-7.
Collis, A., Garimella, K., Moehring, A., Rahimian, M.A., Babalola, S., Gobat, N.H., Shattuck, D., Stolow, J., Aral, S., & Eckles, D. (2022). Global survey on COVID-19 beliefs, behaviors and norms. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(9), 1310-+.Nature Research. doi: 10.1038/s41562-022-01347-1.
Eckles, D., Esfandiari, H., Mossel, E., & Rahimian, M.A. (2022). Seeding with Costly Network Information. Operations Research, 70(4), 2318-2348.Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). doi: 10.1287/opre.2022.2290.
Hązła, J., Jadbabaie, A., Mossel, E., & Rahimian, M.A. (2021). Bayesian Decision Making in Groups is Hard. Operations Research, 69(2), 632-654.Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). doi: 10.1287/opre.2020.2000.
Holtz, D., Zhao, M., Benzell, S.G., Cao, C.Y., Rahimian, M.A., Yang, J., Allen, J., Collis, A., Moehring, A., Sowrirajan, T., Ghosh, D., Zhang, Y., Dhillon, P.S., Nicolaides, C., Eckles, D., & Aral, S. (2020). Interdependence and the cost of uncoordinated responses to COVID-19. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 117(33), 19837-19843.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2009522117.
Eckles, D., Mossel, E., Rahimian, M.A., & Sen, S. (2019). Long ties accelerate noisy threshold-based contagions. SSRN Electronic Journal.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3262749.
Preciado, V.M., & Rahimian, M.A. (2017). Moment-Based Spectral Analysis of Random Graphs with Given Expected Degrees. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, 4(4), 215-228.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/TNSE.2017.2712064.
Rahimian, M.A., & Jadbabaie, A. (2017). Bayesian Learning Without Recall. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL AND INFORMATION PROCESSING OVER NETWORKS, 3(3), 592-606.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/TSIPN.2016.2631943.
Ahmed, A.A., Rahimian, M.A., & Roberts, M.S. (2023). Inferring epidemic dynamics using Gaussian process emulation of agent-based simulations. In 2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 18, (pp. 770-780).IEEE. doi: 10.1109/wsc60868.2023.10408157.
Ahmed, A.A., Rahimian, M.A., & Roberts, M.S. (2023). Estimating Treatment Effects Using Costly Simulation Samples from a Population-Scale Model of Opioid Use Disorder. In 2023 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), (pp. 1-4).IEEE. doi: 10.1109/bhi58575.2023.10313496.
Rahimian, A., Yu, F.Y., & Hurtado Campo, C.E. (2023). Differentially Private Network Data Collection for Influence Maximization. In 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, (pp. 2795-2797).International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.
Banerjee, S., Mukherjee, N., & Rahimian, A. (2022). Deep learning for simulation-based Bayesian inference of hidden parameters in online reputation systems. In The 2nd Annual Artificial Intelligence in Management Workshop and Conference.USC Marshall.
Sassine, J., Rahimian, A., & Eckles, D. (2022). Influence of Repetition through Limited Recall. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 16(1), 863-872.Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Sassine, J., Rahimian, M.A., & Eckles, D. (2022). Influence of Repetition through Limited Recall. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media., 16, (p. 1).Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). doi: 10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19341.