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Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity - Attendees 2019

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Aviva Blonder

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Aviva Blonder
University of California, Davis – USA

Bio: I'm a first year Ph.D. student in Animal Behavior at UC Davis. I'm interested in the evolution of social behavior and in particular how resources and predation affect interactions among non-relatives. I'm also interested in the evolution of personality, or behavioral syndromes. Currently, I'm working on a model of the evolution of social learning to recognize alarm calls.

Jordan Ackerman

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Jordan Ackerman
University of California, Merced – USA

Bio: I am a third year PhD student In Cognitive and Information Sciences. I am fascinated by blockchain consensus mechanisms and the economic and social power dynamics therein. Blockchains traditionally provide formal economic consensus, but as modern blockchains have incorporated support for formal social consensus (delegation/voting), modeling these socio-technical systems becomes increasingly tractable. I hope to extend this research at SFI using a combination of data science and ABM techniques.

Ketika Garg

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Ketika Garg
University of California, Merced – USA

Bio: Ketika is a second-year Ph.D. student in Cognitive and Information Sciences at UC Merced. Prior to joining this program, she obtained her bachelor's and master's in science, with a specialization in biology from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. Her current research interests focus on search dynamics, foraging cognition, information foraging, and cognitive evolution.

Madeleine Daepp

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Madeleine Daepp
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – USA

Bio: I’m a third-year Ph.D. student in Urban Planning. I'm interested in all sorts of problems relating to urban social systems, from agglomeration economies in retail to the role of social capital in gentrification; my current work examines relationships between domestic migration and housing prices. I have an M.Sc. from the University of British Columbia, where I studied the spatial distribution of food retailers, and a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Washington University in St. Louis.

Niclas Lovsjö

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Niclas Lovsjö
Linköping University – Sweden

Bio: I'm a third year PhD-student in Analytical Sociology. My thesis is divided in two separate parts, in the first I focus on processes of cumulative advantage in science and sports and in the other on the social networks of urban scaling. My interests are diverse, but academically they tend to converge on social processes that I try to understand and analyze empirically.

Olivia Newton

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Olivia Newton
University of Central Florida – USA

Bio: I'm a doctoral student in the Modeling and Simulation program at the University of Central Florida. My research focuses on collaborative decision making in sociotechnical systems and agent-based modeling of relevant group dynamics. I'm also interested in ethical and epistemological issues associated with computational research and development. Currently, I'm investigating the effects of team composition and coordination processes on performance in open source software development.

Pamela Thomas

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Pamela Thomasr
University of Notre Dame – USA

Bio: Pamela Bilo Thomas is a PhD student at University of Notre Dame working with Dr. Tim Weninger. She received a master's degree in computer science from Indiana University in 2013, and a BA in mathematics in 2011. Her interests include machine learning and data science, and her current research focuses on how people change behavior and learn new information over time.

Sabina Sloman

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Sabina Sloman
Carnegie Mellon University – USA

Bio: Sabina is a PhD student in Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. She is interested in psychological models of decision-making, in particular in applications and extensions of these models to our understanding of how information propagates between different levels of analysis. Her work has used text analysis, behavioral experiments and simulations to study individual decision-making, group dynamics and public discourse.

Trang Escobar

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Trang Escobar
George Mason University – USA

Bio: I’m a Ph.D. student in Computational Social Science at George Mason University. I’m interested in modeling evolutionary behavior and social dynamics. My research is focused on evolutionary game theory. I’m currently working on evolutionary models, including learning models and emergent social norms.

Vincent Wong

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Vincent Wong
Indiana University – USA

Bio: I'm a 2nd-year PhD student in Informatics (Complex Systems) and Cognitive Science. My research looks at how community dynamics arise from individual behaviors informed by social cognition. I currently work on a project looking at patterns in the ways people join and leave communities on dynamic interaction networks on Twitter.

Personal URL = vincentmwong.github.io

Advanced Grad Workshop Students



Jiin Jung

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Jiin Jung - Claremont Graduate University - USA
Bio: Jiin Jung is a doctoral candidate in Social Psychology at the Claremont Graduate University. Her research areas include group processes, intergroup relations, majority-minority subgroup dynamics, social influence, collective problem-solving, polarization and diversity. She uses both empirical methods and computational modeling.

url: http://jiinjung.com

Kirbi Joe

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Kirbi Joe - University of California, Irvine - USA
Bio: I am currently a third year Ph.D. student studying Mathematical Behavioral Science at the University of California, Irvine. My research is focused on modeling the cultural evolution of linguistic color naming systems, and finding methods to quantitatively analyze and compare these systems cross-culturally. Other projects I am working on include psychophysical and behavioral experiments designed to test for variations in color perception among individuals with differing color vision genotypes.

Lawrence De Geest

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Lawrence De Geest - Suffolk University - USA
Bio: Ask me about my love of bicycles

url: lrdegeest.github.io/

Marie Schellens

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Marie Schellens - Stockholm University - Sweden
Bio: Marie Schellens received a M.Sc. in Geography jointly from KU Leuven and Free University Brussels (Belgium, 2015). She is a Marie Curie PhD fellow at Stockholm University and the University of Iceland, researching the effects of natural resource availability and allocation on conflict risk through computational modelling.

Mario Molina

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Mario Molina - Cornell University - USA
Bio: I am sociologist with broad interests in social networks, social stratification, and computational social science. I am specially interested in how social structures shape and reinforce the internal organization of social groups and their cohesion; and how social expectations and individual interactions feed back into these social structures. My research uses data from multiple sources: online experiments, the web and surveys, in combination with different statistical and computational methods.

Nikolos Gurney

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Nikolos Gurney - Carnegie Mellon University - USA
Bio: My academic interests lie at the intersection of human behavior, economics, and complex systems. Specifically, I study how preferences emerge, adapt, and are observed as behaviors.

url: http://nmgurney.com

Therese Bennich

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Therese Bennich - Stockholm University - Sweden & University of Clermont Auvergne - France
Bio: Therese is currently doing a Ph.D. at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her work is focused on modeling transition pathways to a sustainable bio-based economy, using a systems approach. The aim is to identify trade-offs and synergies between parallel visions and objectives of the bio-based economy, and to support design and testing of policies. The work is carried out in collaboration with key stakeholders and actors relevant to a transition process in a Nordic context.

Qi Hao

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Qi Hao - Michigan State University - USA
Bio: I am currently interested in group dynamics. I take mathematical approaches toward the modeling of group behaviors. A basic assumption is that group behaviors have deterministic patterns and these patterns can highly match the patterns shown in mathematical relations. Finding the perfect coincidence that group behaviors act like some mathematical entities is the high art I chase.

Zackary Dunvin

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Zackary Dunvin - Indiana University - USA
Bio: I am a second year PhD student in the Complex Systems and Sociology programs at Indiana University. My current projects address complexity in legal code and identity formation in online white nationalist communities. My interests more generally lie in patterns of communication within formal organizations and how they affect information diffusion, decision making and access to power and resources.

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