From Neuron to Intelligence (N → I)

Arsham Ghavasieh

Research Associate (Senior Postdoc) · Northwestern University

How is intelligence physically possible? I use statistical physics and dynamical systems to trace how interacting parts give rise to collective behavior, learning, and thought.

Arsham Ghavasieh standing beside the Chicago River

Highlights

Publications

  1. 2026Reducibility of higher-order networks from dynamicsNature Communications
  2. 2026Influence of the reinsertion algorithm on the performance of the Vertex Entanglement methodCommunications Physics
  3. 2025Tuning Universality in Deep Neural NetworksarXiv preprint
  4. 2025Toward a physics of deep learning and brainsarXiv preprint
  5. 2025Functional mesoscale organization of complex networksarXiv preprint
  6. 2025Coarse-graining network flow through statistical physics and machine learningNature Communications
  7. 2024Maximum entropy network states for coalescence processesPhysica A
  8. 2024Diversity of information pathways drives sparsity in real-world networksNature Physics
  9. 2023Statistical Physics of Information Flow in Complex Interdependent SystemsUniversity of Trento
  10. 2023Generalized network density matrices for analysis of multiscale functional diversityPhysical Review E
  11. 2023Dismantling the information flow in complex interconnected systemsPhysical Review Research
  12. 2022Multilayer Network Science: From Cells to SocietiesCambridge University Press
  13. 2022Statistical physics of network structure and information dynamicsJournal of Physics: Complexity
  14. 2021Multiscale information propagation in emergent functional networksEntropy
  15. 2021Persistence of information flow: A multiscale characterization of human brainNetwork Neuroscience
  16. 2021Unraveling the effects of multiscale network entanglement on empirical systemsCommunications Physics
  17. 2021Multiscale statistical physics of the pan-viral interactome unravels the systemic nature of SARS-CoV-2 infectionsCommunications Physics
  18. 2020CovMulNet19, integrating proteins, diseases, drugs, and symptoms: a network medicine approach to COVID-19Network and Systems Medicine
  19. 2020Statistical physics of complex information dynamicsPhysical Review E
  20. 2020Enhancing transport properties in interconnected systems without altering their structurePhysical Review Research

Essays

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