Dr. Alec William KIRKLEY BSc(University of Rochester), PhD(University of Michigan)



Assistant Professor


Contact Information Office: 6156LI
Phone: 34425899
Fax: 34420515
Email: akirkley@cityu.edu.hk
Web: Personal Homepage

Research Interests Network Science
Complex Systems
Urban Science
Statistical Physics



Alec's research interests fall under the theory of complex networks and the statistical physics of urban systems. He has worked on a number of problems related to the characterization of structure in networks with metadata, statistical inference with network data, spatial socioeconomic inequality, and human mobility. He is a member of the CityU Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks (http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~cccn/index.htm).
Alec received his Ph.D. degree in Physics at the University of Michigan under the supervision of Mark Newman, and his BSc degree with summa cum laude from the University of Rochester.
Info on his publications can be found on his personal webpage at https://aleckirkley.com/pubs/.




Awards and Achievements 2019 “National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship” Department of Defense (US).
2019 “National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship” National Science Foundation (US).



Openings I am looking for highly motivated PhD students (from any disciplinary background!) to join the PhD Programme in Data Science at CityU. Please send me your CV and transcripts if you are interested. I encourage students that are exceptionally strong and/or from overseas to apply for the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS), which provides an excellent stipend and support for PhD studies in Hong Kong.
I am always happy to discuss opportunities for PhD supervision, but openings to work with me may be subject to quota availability, admissions criteria, and project funding (I will try my best to be clear about these sources of variability and how they apply to each student). Due to the high volume of emails, I apologize if I am not able to reply to each of them, but I do make sure to read every applicant’s email.



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Last update date : 12 Jan 2022