Benjamin Leinwand (bleinwan)

Benjamin Leinwand

Assistant Professor

Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Education

  • PhD (2022) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Statistics and Operations Research)
  • BA (2013) Cornell University (Statistical Science and Economics)

Research

My work lies at the interface of statistics and network science. Applications include neuroscience, social networks, politics.

General Information

Vice President of The New York City Metro Area Chapter of The American Statistical Association (2025-2027)

Institutional Service

  • Industry Connection Event Member
  • Department of Mathematical Sciences Faculty Candidate Interviewer Member

Professional Service

  • New York City Metro Area Chapter of the American Statistical Association Vice President
  • Session Chair, Quality and Productivity Research Conference Session on Networks and High Dimensional Data Analysis Session Chair

Professional Societies

  • Network Science Society Member

Selected Publications

Conference Proceeding

  1. Leinwand, B.; Wu, G.; Pipiras, V. (2020). Characterizing Frequency-Selective Network Vulnerability for Alzheimer's Disease by Identifying Critical Harmonic Patterns. 2020 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
    https://doi.org/10.1109/isbi45749.2020.9098324.

Journal Article

  1. Leinwand, B.; Lyzinski, V. (2025). ACRONYM: Augmented degree corrected, Community Reticulated Organized Network Yielding Model. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (pp. 1-27). Informa UK Limited.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/10618600.2025.2540356.
  2. Leinwand, B.; Pipiras, V. (2024). Augmented degree correction for bipartite networks with applications to recommender systems. Applied Network Science (1 ed., vol. 9). Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-024-00630-6.
  3. Baek, C.; Leinwand, B.; Lindquist, K. A.; Jeong, S.; Hopfinger, J.; Gates, K. M.; Pipiras, V. (2023). Detecting Changes in Correlation Networks with Application to Functional Connectivity of FMRI Data. Psychometrika (2 ed., vol. 88, pp. 636-655). Cambridge University Press (CUP).
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-023-09908-7.
  4. Leinwand, B.; Pipiras, V. (2022). Block dense weighted networks with augmented degree correction. Network Science (3 ed., vol. 10, pp. 301-321). Cambridge University Press (CUP).
    https://doi.org/10.1017/nws.2022.23.
  5. Leinwand, B.; Ge, P.; Kulkarni, V.; Smith, R. (2021). Winning an election, not a popularity contest. Significance (4 ed., vol. 18, pp. 24-29). Wiley.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1740-9713.01549.
  6. Baek, C.; Gates, K. M.; Leinwand, B.; Pipiras, V. (2021). Two sample tests for high-dimensional autocovariances. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (vol. 153, pp. 107067). Elsevier BV.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2020.107067.

Courses

MA 331: Intermediate Statistics
MA 540: Introduction to Probability Theory
MA 577: Statistical Network Analysis
MA 641: Time Series Analysis