Group members

Research coordination. Team and individual ranking models. Probabilistic models and statistical inference.

Online games studies. Ranking and reputation models. Social network models. Webometrics and Scientometrics. Group educational outreach coordinator.

Probabilistic modelling of behaviour. Patterns of interaction in question-answering systems. Research coordinator on the identification of behavioral patterns in social systems.

Rankings of universities. Integration of company and university rankings.

Economics and economics sociology of online games. Distributed social experiences in games and social media. Social structures and rankings in games.

Coordinator: Interaction and Intelligence 2017 workshop

Main publications:

Musabirov, Ilya, Denis Bulygin, Paul Okopny, Alexander Sirotkin. “Deconstructing Cosmetic Virtual Goods Experiences in Dota 2.” Accepted to ACM CHI 2017 Papers and Notes track.

Musabirov, Ilya, Paul Okopny, and Denis Bulygin. 2015. “Analyzing Chat Logs in Online Games for Tutorial Improvement.” In Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 661–666. CHI PLAY ’15. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/2793107.2810335.

Sirotkin, Alexander, Ilya Musabirov, Paul Okopny, Denis Bulygin, and Vladimir Ivanov. 2016. “Topic Modeling for Answers Detection in Online Game Chats.” In Supplementary Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, 329–33. AIST 2016. Yekaterinburg, Russia: CEUR-WS.org.

Ranking and rating systems for spatial data. GeoData collection. Vizualization and Interactive Applications Development.

Main publications:

Alexandrov, Daniel, Viktor Karepin, and Ilya Musabirov. 2016. “Educational Migration from Russia to China: Social Network Data.” In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science, 309–311. WebSci ’16. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/2908131.2908192.

Webometrics and Scientometrics: Data Collection, Text and Social Network Analysis. Learning Environments, Social Structure of Students Communication.

Main publications:

Musabirov, Ilya, Paul Okopny, and Stanislav Pozdniakov. 2016. “Enabling Information Access in Virtual Learning Environment: The Case of Data Science Minor.” In Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 119:1–119:6. NordiCHI ’16. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/2971485.2996754.

Data collection from question-answering systems (ex. StackExchange, forum of the minor "Data science"). Testing models of users' interaction on the Q&A services. Organization of the research group seminars.

Analysis of bibliographical profiles of universities. Comparison of traditional social network scientometric models and Relational Event Model. Management of the website of the Research Group.

Data collection from the platform fl.ru. The analysis of the influence of skills and abilities on rating and success of project implementation.

Data collection of the multiplayer online game data. Approbation of behavioural models on data from online-games.

Organization of data collection about jobs, vacancies, skills and CVs. Selection of the most significant/demanded skills and abilities.

Data collection from the platform “Moi Krug” (Jobs in IT industry). Selection of the most significant/demanded skills and abilities.

Data collection from the TripAdvisor service. Analysis of coordination of rating, estimates and feedbacks.

Data collection about the real estate, organizations and other geographical objects on the territory of St. Petersburg. Testing models of recommendations taking into account geographical data. Organization of open events of Research Group.

Media ratings and social algorithms in eSports