Research Fellow at – Center for Social and Biomedical Complexity (CSBC) – at Indiana University (IN, USA), working with Prof. Johan L. Bollen, Prof. Luis M. Rocha and Prof. Filippo Radicchi. Obtained a PhD in Applied Mathematics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam under supervision of Prof. Sandjai Bhuali, a Master in Applied Mathematics (Chair: Stochastic Operations Research) at the University of Twente and a Bachelor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Twente.
mtenthij(at)indiana(dot)edu
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My main interests involve the usage of Mathematical Modelling to study and mimic Human Behavior through data obtained from social media.
keywords: #ComplexSystems, #ComplexNetworks, #ComputationSocialScience, #DataScience, #MathematicalModeling, #SocialMediaAnalytics.
| Year | Reference |
|---|---|
| 2021 |
K. C. Bathina, M. ten Thij, L. Lorenzo-Luaces, L.A. Rutter, J. Bollen [2021]. Individuals with depression express more distorted thinking on social media Nature Human Behavior |
| 2020 |
D. Valdez, M. ten Thij, K. Bathina, L.A. Rutter, J. Bollen [2020]. Social-media insights into US mental health amid the COVID-19 global pandemic: a Longitudinal analysis of publicly available Twitter data, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(12):e21418 |
| 2020 |
M. ten Thij, K. Bathina, L.A. Rutter, L. Lorenzo-Luaces, I.A. van de Leemput, M. Scheffer, J. Bollen [2020]. Depression alters the circadian pattern of online activity, Scientific Reports 10, 17272 |
| 2019 |
M. ten Thij, A. Kaltenbrunner, D. Laniado, Y. Volkovich [2019]. Collective attention patterns under controlled conditions, Online Social Networks and Media, 13, 100047 |
| 2017 |
M. ten Thij [2017]. Mining Long-term Topics from a Real-time Feed, Proceedings of the IARIA DATA ANALYTICS conference 2017, Barcelona, Spain, November 12-16, 2017, pp. 1-5. |
| 2016 |
M. ten Thij, S. Bhulai, W. van den Berg, H. Zwinkels [2016]. Twitter Analytics for the Horticulture industry, Proceedings of the IARIA DATA ANALYTICS conference 2016, Venice, Italy, October 9-13, 2016, pp. 75-79. |
| 2016 |
M. ten Thij, S. Bhulai [2016]. Modelling trend progression through an extension of the Pólya Urn Process, Proceedings of the International Conference on Network Science 2016 (NetSci-X), Wroclaw, Poland, January 11-13, 2016, pp 57-67. |
| 2014 |
M. ten Thij, T. Ouboter, D. Worm, N. Litvak, J.L. van den Berg, S. Bhulai [2014]. Modelling of trends in Twitter using retweet graph dynamics, Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph (WAW2014), Beijing, China, December 17-18, 2014, pp 132-147. |
| 2014 |
M. ten Thij, S. Bhulai, P. Kampstra [2014]. Circadian patterns in Twitter, Proceedings of the IARIA DATA ANALYTICS conference 2014, Rome, Italy, August 24-28, 2014, pp 12-17. |
| Year | Talk title | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Hortiradar: leveraging Social Media for the Horticulture industry | VEG., Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2017 | Beyond tracking: modelling human behavior through social media. | AI Seminar, USC Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2016 | Data driven innovation: Facts from the Social Web | 3 |
| 2016 | Modelling trends from a network perspective | MACSI, Limerick, Ireland |
| Year | Conference | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | COMPLEX NETWORKS Conference 2020 | On-line |
| 2019 | COMPLEX NETWORKS Conference 2019 | Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2019 | International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2019 | Workshop on Complex Networks: From socio-economic systems to biology and brain | Lipari, Italy |
| 2017 | IARIA DATA ANALYTICS | Barcelona, Spain |
| 2017 | International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) | Cologne, Germany |
| 2017 | Benelearn Conference 2017 | Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
| 2016 | IARIA DATA ANALYTICS | Venice, Italy |
| 2016 | Conference on Complex Systems (CCS) | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2016 | StochMod conference | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
| 2016 | International Winter Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X) | Wroclaw, Poland |
| 2015 | International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph (WAW) | Eindhoven, the Netherlands |
| 2014 | International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph (WAW) | Beijing, China |
| GitHub | Description |
|---|---|
| Hortiradar | Realtime data gathering from Twitter for the horti-culture industry. |
| Year | Journal | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) | Reviewer |
| 2019-Now | PLOS ONE | Reviewer |
| 2017-Now | IARIA DATA ANALYTICS | TPC Member |
| 2018 | International Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies 2018 | TPC Member |
| 2018 | IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security | Reviewer |
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Best Paper Award at IARIA DATA ANALYTICS | - |