Arnab Sarker

PhD Candidate in Social and Engineering Systems and Statistics

Research

Working Papers

Sarker, A., Seby, J. B., Benson, A. R., and Jadbabaie, A. (2023). “Capturing Tie Strength with Algebraic Topology.” (arXiv)

Sarker, A. and Park, P. “Co-Present Triads.” Pre-print available upon request.

Wang, H., Sarker, A., and Hosoi, A. E. “The Effect of Basketball Analytics Investment on NBA Team Performance.” Revise and resubmit at Journal of Sports Economics.

Journal Publications

Sarker, A., Northrup, N., and Jadbabaie, A.. (2024) “Higher-order homophily on simplicial complexes.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (link)

Sarker, A., Jadbabaie, A., and Shah, D. (2024). “Unifying epidemic models with mixtures.” IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks. (arXiv, link)

Jadbabaie, A.*, Sarker, A.*, and Shah, D.* (2023). “Implicit feedback policies for COVID-19: why ‘zero-COVID’ policies remain elusive.” Scientific Reports. (*= Equal Contribution) (arXiv, link)

Sarker, A., Fisher, P., Gaudio, J. E., and Annaswamy, A. M. (2023). “Accurate parameter estimation for safety-critical systems with unmodeled dynamics.” Artificial Intelligence. (arXiv, link)

Cramer, E., Huang, Y., Ray, E., [et al., including Sarker, A. as a part of the US COVID-19 Forecast Hub Consortium] (2022) “The United States COVID-19 Forecast Hub dataset.” Scientific Data. (link)

Cramer, E., Ray, E., Lopez, V., [et al., including Sarker, A.] (2022) “Evaluation of individual and ensemble probabilistic forecasts of COVID-19 mortality in the United States.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (link)

Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

Wu, X., Sarker, A., and Jadbabaie, A.. (2022) “Link Partitioning on Simplicial Complexes Using Higher-Order Laplacians.” Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. (arXiv)

Sarker, A., Northrup, N., and Jadbabaie, A.. (2022) “Generalizing Homophily to Simplicial Complexes.” Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications. (arXiv)

Technical Reports

Malani, A., Soman, S., Asher, S., [et al., including Sarker, A.] (2020). “Adaptive control of COVID-19 outbreaks in India: Local, gradual, and trigger-based exit paths from lockdown” National Bureau of Economic Research. Working paper on hold. (link)

Agarwal, A., Alomar, A., Sarker, A., Shah, D., Shen, D., and Yang, C. “Two Burning Questions on COVID-19: Did shutting down the economy help? Can we (partially) reopen the economy without risking the second wave?.” (arXiv)

Additional Research

Master’s Thesis – A Unified Framework for Quantile Elicitation with Applications (pdf)

Advised by Arpit Agarwal and Shivani Agarwal

Senior Design Project – GerryFair: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness (githubIBM AI Fairness 360)

Joint work with Adel Boyarsky, William Brown, and AJ Hallac. Advised by Seth Neel, Michael Kearns, and Aaron Roth