Rate My Professor Mahendra Piraveenan

Piraveenan's research focuses on complex networks, networked game theory, computational epidemiology, infectious disease dynamics, biological networks, bioinformatics, systems biology, graph theory, multi-agent systems, and adaptive systems. His work has accumulated over 2,772 citations on Google Scholar. Key publications include "Percolation centrality: Quantifying graph-theoretic impact of nodes during percolation in networks" (2013, 258 citations), "Game theoretic modelling of infectious disease dynamics and intervention methods: a review" (2020, 225 citations), "Game theory in defence applications: A review" (2022, 151 citations), "Assortative mixing in directed biological networks" (2012, 129 citations), and "Local assortativity in scale-free networks" (2008, 124 citations). He has held research and teaching positions at the Max Planck Institute in Germany and the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka, and maintains an affiliation with CSIRO. Piraveenan received the 2023 Supervisor of the Year Award in the Faculty of Engineering from SUPRA and was granted the University Postgraduate Scholarship for his PhD.