The Landry Lab at the University of Virginia studies how the structure of networks and groups affect the spread of diseases, information, and ideology. We seek to answer questions like, How do groups change the way that contagion spreads? How do groups form and fracture? How can we use knowledge of the underlying structure of groups to effectively mitigate and optimize the spread of contagion? We use tools from network science, mathematical modeling, Bayesian inference, and open-source development to help answer these questions.
Open positions
We are recruiting the following positions:
Graduate Students: Graduate students will have considerable latitude to choose courses and a research project that interests them. Reach out with any questions!
Recent News
- August 2025: Abhay Gupta joins the Landry Lab as a PhD student. Welcome, Abhay!
- June 2025: Ahmed Ahmed joined the Landry Lab co-advised by Baltazar Espinoza through the Computing for Global Challenges (C4GC) summer internship program hosted by the Biocomplexity Institute. Welcome, Ahmed!
- June 2025: Prof. Landry attended NetSci 2025 in Maastricht, NL, where he organized the Software and Data for Supporting Network Science satellite workshop and presented work on sampling from the hypergraph configuration model.
- May 2025: New preprint on the arXiv! “A Blue Start: A large-scale pairwise and higher-order social network dataset” in collaboration with Alyssa Smith, Ilya Amburg, Sagar Kumar, and Brooke Foucault Welles!
- May 2025: The Landry Lab received a Small Data Analytics Resource Award from the Data Analytics Center at UVA for the project titled “Analyzing large-scale social networks through the Bluesky social media platform”.
- May 2025: “Governance as a complex, networked, democratic, satisfiability problem” is now published in npj Complexity!
- April 2025: Andy Grieve was awarded an EXPAND fellowship to be co-advised by Prof. Landry (with primary advisor Prof. Katja Kasimatis) to incorporate modeling into his research on sexual conflict and co-evolution. Congratulations, Andy!
- April 2025: Charlotte Greene was awarded an EXPAND fellowship to be co-advised by Prof. Landry (with primary advisor Prof. Butch Brodie) to integrate network methods to phenotype aggression and quantify behavior. Congratulations, Charlotte!
- April 2025: Prof. Landry was an invited panelist at the Social Contagions, Artificial Intelligence, and Democracy Workshop at UVA.
- March 2025: Abhay Gupta joining the Landry Lab in August 2025! Welcome, Abhay!
- January 2025: Prof. Landry is now a courtesy faculty member in the School of Data Science! This will foster many exciting cross-school collaborations.
- December 2024: We have a new member joining the Landry Lab! Daniel Kaiser will be joining us as a postdoc starting August 2025! Welcome, Daniel!
- December 2024: New preprint on the structure of effective governance is now posted!
- October 2024: The first publication for the Landry Lab is published in Physical Review E!