Robert Jankowski

About

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at TU Delft studying shortest paths in large incomplete networks. I hold a PhD in network geometry from the University of Barcelona, where I worked on network embeddings in multidimensional hyperbolic spaces.

Selected Publications

Mapping bipartite networks into multidimensional hyperbolic spaces

Communications Physics 9(36), 2026.

The D-Mercator method for the multidimensional hyperbolic embedding of real networks

Nature Communications 14(7585), 2023.

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News

• [Jan. 2026] Article "Shortest-path percolation on scale-free networks" published in Physical Review E.
• [Jan. 2026] Article "Mapping bipartite networks into multidimensional hyperbolic spaces" published in Communications Physics.
• [Oct. 2025] I defended my PhD thesis, titled "Hyperbolic Cartography of Complex Networks."
• [Sep. 2025] New preprint: "Network representations reveal structured uncertainty in music" is available online (link).
• [Sep. 2025] New preprint: "Shortest-path percolation on scale-free networks" is available online (link).
• [Sep. 2025] New preprint: "Chordless cycle filtrations for dimensionality detection in complex networks via topological data analysis" is available online (link).
• [Aug. 2025] New preprint: "Task complexity shapes internal representations and robustness in neural networks" is available online (link).

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• [Mar. 2025] New preprint: "Mapping bipartite networks into multidimensional hyperbolic spaces" is available online (link).
• [Sep. 2024] New paper: "Feature-aware ultra-low dimensional reduction of real networks" published in npj Complexity (link).
• [Jul. 2024] Participated in LOGML Summer School 2024 at Imperial College London.
• [Jun. 2024] Our group organized Network Geometry: Theory and Application workshop at NetSci 2024.
• [Jun. 2024] Gave a talk at NetSci 2024 in Quebec about "Feature-aware ultra-low dimensional reduction of real networks".
• [Jun. 2024] New preprint: "Hyperbolic Benchmarking Unveils Network Topology-Feature Relationship in GNN Performance" is available online (link).
• [May. 2024] Our group organized a workshop at X Festa de la Ciencia.
• [Mar. 2024] Invited talk on Network Geometry at Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology (link).
• [Mar. 2024] Gave a talk at APS March Meeting in Minneapolis about D-Mercator.
• [Jan. 2024] New preprint: "Feature-aware ultra-low dimensional reduction of real networks" is available online (link).
• [Nov. 2023] First PhD paper published in Nature Communications (link).
• [Oct. 2023] Poster presentation at XXIV Congreso de Fisica Estadistica (FisEs'23) in Pamplona.
• [Sep. 2023] Participated in Visualizing Complexity Science Workshop organized by CSH in Vienna.
• [Aug. 2023] Gave a talk at StatPhys28 in Tokyo about D-Mercator.
• [Jul. 2023] Attended XI GEFENOL Summer School on Statistical Physics of Complex Systems in Barcelona.
• [Jul. 2023] Gave a talk at NetSci 2023 in Vienna about D-Mercator.
• [May. 2023] Our group organized a workshop at IX Festa de la Ciencia in Barcelona. See our video and promo.
• [Apr. 2023] New preprint: D-Mercator: multidimensional hyperbolic embedding of real networks (link).
• [Oct. 2022] Gave a talk at CSS 2022 in Palma de Mallorca about D-Mercator.
• [Feb. 2022] Gave a talk at NetSciX 2022 on epidemic-opinion dynamics on multiplex networks.
• [Jan. 2022] Publication in Entropy with Anna Chmiel on epidemic spreading and opinion dynamics (link).
• [Oct. 2021] Started PhD at University of Barcelona with Profs. M. Angeles Serrano and Marian Boguna on network geometry.
• [Jul. 2021] Awarded first prize for engineering thesis by Polish Physical Society.
• [Jul. 2021] Poster presentation at 11th Polish Symposium on Physics in Economy and Social Science (FENS 2021).
• [Jun. 2021] Won best presentation award at SFINKS conference.
• [May. 2021] Started research with Dr Anna Chmiel on epidemic modeling.
• [Oct. 2020] Joined Prof. Holyst's group as student researcher on structural balance in complex systems.
• [Sep. 2020] Publication in Acta Physica Polonica A with Julian Sienkiewicz on popular science articles (link).

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