Choudhry Shuaib
Hello wandering internet traveller,
I'm Shuaib (it's a long story but I go by my surname) and I hold an MSci degree in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London. I also have some minor experience working in medical physics, Teach First and as a consultant for Accenture before starting this PhD. I am working towards a PhD in Computer Science/Applied Maths, the lines are quite blurry plus I like interdisciplinary work; it's kind of like me, hard to put into one box. My supervisors are Robert MacKay and Marya Bazzi, both of the Maths department.
My research focusses on Network Science with a focus on topics such as topology and structure how these impact dynamics, particularly hierarchical structure and how that manifests itself in complex systems. I have developed my own framework which studies these very topics. It's known as GraphHierarchy and it's an innovative generalisation of a mathematical ecology technique known as trophic analysis, see this paper for more details https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93161-4#Sec2. I am also studying the concepts of core-periphery structure and community detection, through the lens of my framework
My key research aim is to understand complex systems. These can be represented mathematically by a network, which are essentially abstractions of the flows of information and energy through the complex system. The beauty of the network approach is that, because of the level of abstraction and the ubiquity of this network structure in real life, it can be applied to many applications and thus model dynamical processes such as information/rumour propagation, epidemiology, infrastructure capability and resilience, traffic and the brain are just a small amount of examples of the power of this approach.
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