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The Erdős–Rényi Prize of the Network Science Society is named after
Paul Erdős Paul Erdős ( ; 26March 191320September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. pursued and proposed problems in discrete mathematics, g ...
and
Alfréd Rényi Alfréd Rényi (20 March 1921 – 1 February 1970) was a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in probability theory, though he also made contributions in combinatorics, graph theory, and number theory. Life Rényi was born in Budapest to A ...
. This international prize is awarded annually in a special ceremony at the International Conference on Network Science to a ''selected young scientist (under 40 years old on the day of the nomination deadline) for their research achievements in the area of
network science Network science is an academic field which studies complex networks such as telecommunication networks, computer networks, biological networks, Cognitive network, cognitive and semantic networks, and social networks, considering distinct eleme ...
, broadly construed. While the achievements can be both theoretical and experimental, the prize is aimed at emphasizing outstanding contributions relevant to the interdisciplinary progress of network science.'' Past recipients are: * 2012: Roger Guimera,
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, for ''outstanding work as a young researcher in Network Science for the technical depth and the interdisciplinary values of his scientific contributions to the analysis of network cartography and community identification.'' * 2013:
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,
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, for ''his groundbreaking contributions to the study of synchronization phenomena and the control of cascading failures in complex networks.'' * 2014: Mason A. Porter,
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, for ''his fundamental research on the mathematics of networks and his outreach efforts to teach network science to students in schools.'' * 2015: Chaoming Song,
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, for ''the breadth and depth of his influential work, ranging from network applications of
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and renormalization group theory to the in-depth analysis of big data on human mobility.'' * 2016: Aaron Clauset,
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, for ''his contributions to the study of network structure, including Internet mapping, inference of missing links, and community structure, and for his provocative analyses of human conflicts and social stratification.'' * 2017: Vittoria Colizza,
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, for ''contributions to fundamental and data-driven network-based modeling of epidemic processes, including seminal studies on metapopulation systems, the impact of air transportation, and the predictability of epidemic outbreaks.'' * 2018: Danielle Bassett,
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, for ''fundamental contributions to our understanding of the network architecture of the human brain, its evolution over learning and development, and its alteration in neurological disease.'' * 2019: Tiago P. Peixoto,
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, for ''groundbreaking contributions to the statistical analysis and visualization of networks, including efficient and principled inference algorithms based on the
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, and compression and prediction of richly annotated or hierarchical structures.'' * 2020:
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,
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, for ''foundational and empirically grounded theoretical research that has advanced network science and its applications in ecology, with a focus on multiple types of interactions among species and the implications for global change, opening the path to new ways to study ecosystems.'' * 2021: Dashun Wang,
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, for ''foundational and empirically grounded theoretical research that has advanced network science and its applications in the field of computational social sciences, with a focus on the science of science and on developing methods related to quantifying and improving human achievement and standards-of-living.'' * 2022: Linyuan Lü,
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, for ''groundbreaking contributions to network information filtering, including seminal works on link prediction and detection of influential nodes in networked structures, and their technological applications.'' * 2023: Daniel B. Larremore,
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, for ''socially impactful contributions to network models of human-disease dynamics, with applications to malaria and the COVID-19 pandemic, and for foundational research in the theoretical and practical use of algorithms for community detection.'' * 2024: Antoine Allard,
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, for '' the breadth and depth of his contributions to modeling complex systems as networks, including the geometry of networks and the role of heterogeneity and superspreading in contemporary diseases and complex contagions.''


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