I am Naomi Arnold, a PhD student within the Networks group in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. My supervisors are Richard Clegg and Raul Mondragon. My research interests are broadly in modelling different social and information systems as evolving graphs. Specific areas of interest to me are:

• Network growth models: model selection and changepoint detection.
• Tools for temporal networks.

I maintain the FETA (Framework for Evolving Topology Analysis) codebase with Richard Clegg, which can be used for generating graphs from different growth models, and for model selection (paper describing the background and process here).

I am a Teaching Fellow at the QMUL School of EECS, delivering some of the Digital Media and Social Networks course, as well as running the Data Analytics microcredential module, supervising MSc projects and providing Java support for first year students.

I am also a contributor to the Raphtory software for the analysis of temporal graphs.

News

February 2021

• Paper accepted at Nature Scientific Reports! Likelihood based method to distinguish mixtures of network models that vary in time
• Gave a talk at the QMUL Institute of Applied Data Science PhD Forum: Investigating the Alt-Right Network Gab using Temporal Interaction Graphs

January 2021

• This year I am again teaching the Digital Media and Social Networks course at QMUL.

November 2021

• I am now a Teaching Fellow at the School of EECS, QMUL!

October 2020

• Talk at Mishcon de Reya’s reading group: Temporal graph analysis of the far-right social network Gab

September 2020

• Preprint on the arXiv: Moving with the Times: Investigating the Alt-Right Network Gab using Temporal Interaction Graphs

January 2020

• Two posters accepted at Complenet 2020: “Changing the tune: mixtures of network models that vary in time” and “What window works? The effect of varying temporal depth when analysing social network user interactions”.
• This year I will be teaching part of the Digital Media and Social Networks course at QMUL.

October 2019

• Preprint on the arXiv: Changing the tune: mixtures of network models that vary in time
• Attended the ACM Internet Measurements Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, thanks to an ACM student travel grant.

July 2019

• Won the Brendan Murphy Prize for my talk “Mixed and time-varying models for network formation” at Coseners.
• Presenting at the Multi-Service Networks Workshop (Coseners) in Abingdon, UK
• Presenting with Richard Clegg at the 3rd UK Workshop on Network Science in Leeds, UK
• Participated in the Shadow TPC of the ACM Internet Measurements Conference

May 2019

• Attending the NetSci conference in Burlington, Vermont.

February 2019

• Taking part in the Winter Workshop on Complex Systems in Zakopane, Poland.

October 2018

• Elected to the council for the Complex Systems Society

September 2018

• Attending and giving a talk at the Mediterranean School of Complex Networks in Salina, Italy.
• Attending the 17th Mathematics of Networks meeting in Sheffield, UK.
• Attending and presenting at the Conference for Complex Systems in Thessaloniki, Greece.

August 2018

• Teaching at the Murray Edwards College STEP summer school in Cambridge, UK.

July 2018

• Presenting at the Multi-Service Networking Workshop in Abingdon, UK.