Fanhui Meng

Complex Systems, Spreading Dynamics

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Shanghai University of Engineering Science

No. 333 Longteng Road, Shanghai, 201620, China

Welcome! Our research focuses on the exploration of Information Spreading Dynamics in Complex Systems, such as social networks and communication systems, by employing a multidisciplinary approach that integrates statistical physics, information theory, and network science.

We seek to Unveil, Understand, and Model the collective dynamical behaviors triggered by individual interactions within these systems. Our research has been published in leading journals such as Nature Human Behaviour and PNAS, among others.

More recently, we have been engaged in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of complex systems and information theory.

news

Jan 24, 2025 Our paper, '’Spreading dynamics of information on online social networks’’ (1), (2), (3), edited by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, was published in the leading international journal PNAS on January 23, 2025.
Aug 08, 2024 Our paper, '’A Complex Network Approach to Designing Bernoulli Parity-Check Codes’’, won the Best Paper Award at the 13th IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China held in Hangzhou, China on August 7-9, 2024.
Apr 02, 2021 Our paper, '’Detecting and modelling real percolation and phase transitions of information on social media’’, was published in the leading international journal Nature Human Behaviour on April 1, 2021.

selected publications

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    Spreading dynamics of information on online social networks
    Fanhui Meng ,  Jiarong Xie ,  Jiachen Sun , and 7 more authors
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025
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    Detecting and modelling real percolation and phase transitions of information on social media
    Jiarong Xie ,  Fanhui Meng ,  Jiachen Sun , and 3 more authors
    Nature Human Behaviour, 2021