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August 10, 2024: Gave a talk on "Engineering Your Business with AI" at the American Council of Engineering Companies of North Carolina at their annual meeting in Asheville, NC.
July 18, 2024: Contributed “Agent-Based Modeling in Marketing: Interactions are King” to The Oxford Handbook of Agent-Based Computational Management Science.
June 28, 2024: Presented "Why Firms Should Want Algorithmic Accountability" (joint work with Kalinda Ukanwa and Peter Zubcsek) at Marketing Science 2024 in Sydney, Australia.
May 9, 2024: Serving on the NCSU Global One Health Master's Curriculum Committee.
April 22, 2024: Excited to serve on the editorial board of the new journal from Now Publishers: MarkTech: Journal of Marketing and Technology.
April 19, 2024: Presented "The Champion of Images: Understanding the role of images in the decision-making process of online consumers" at the NCSU Poole College of Management Marketing Seminar.
April 3, 2024: Honored to Serve on the NCSU AI Advisory Group.
April 1, 2024: Honored to serve on the Advaita Integrated Medicine Advisory Board.
March 29, 2024: The proposal with Alice Cheng and Florence Martin, "Addressing Disparities in Data‐Driven Decision Making Education (ADD ME): Enhancing Representativeness of Minorities and Women in Business Analytics" was awarded for funding by the GRIP-EAO Program.
February 23, 2024: "Improving the Efficacy of Online Learning using Artificial Intelligence" with Chul Kim, Ritu Agarwal, and PK Kannan won best in track for the Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning track at Winter AMA.
February 7, 2024: A new concentration in "Business Analytics" within the Bachelor's of Science in Business Management, which I helped develop, has been approved by the University governing committee.
January 30, 2024: Moderated a panel, "Harnessing Data Across the Enterprise: Perspectives from Supply Chain and Marketing Analytics" featuring Polly Mitchell-Guthrie and Stefanie Gordish from Kinaxis for the our Analytics programs.
January 29, 2024: Presented a talk, "A Gentle Introduction to AI" for the NCSU Advancement Education Day at SAS.
January 13, 2024: Received internal RISF funding for our proposal, "Embodied Social AI: Personal Robots for Aging at Home"
November 30, 2023: Participated in a panel on "AI Ethics for Career Centers and the Employment Process" as part of the NASPAA Career Professionals Meeting at NCCU.
November 28, 2023: Helping to organize the 2024 Symposium on Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research (SCECR) in Lisbon, Portugal.
November 17, 2023: Gave a talk at the Poole College of Management at NC State on "Generative AI: Integrating Tools into Teaching and Research"
November 15, 2023: Happy to become an affiliate member of the Global One Health Academy.
November 14, 2023: Presented "How AI will transform visual marketing" at the Digital Summit in Raleigh.
November 9-10, 2023: Delivered a Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling and a keynote address on AI and Marketing at the 2023 SemeAd Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
November 2-4, 2023: Delivered a keynote on "The Past, Present, and Future of Data-Driven Agent-Based Modeling" at the Computational Social Science Society of America annual meeting and led a tutorial on agent-based modeling using NetLogo.
October 17, 2023: Participated in a panel on "Navigating Data Science Opportunities" sponsored by the Data Science Academy at NC State.
October 16, 2023: Presented "Brand Reputation Tracker" as part of the Rochester Institute of Technology's Marketing PhD Seminar.
October 16, 2023: A paper with Abhishek Shah, Shweta Shah, and Xiaoxia Champon, "Celebrity Voices in Crisis: Unveiling the Dynamics of COVID-19 Vaccine Sentiment Through Bayesian Analysis of Time Series" has been accepted at Journal of Southern Association of Information Systems.
October 5, 2023: Our proposal, "Using Categorical Functional Data Analysis to personalize user workflow and improve technological engagement", has been awarded funding by the Laboratory for Analytical Sciences.
September 22, 2023: Presented "A Gentle Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" to NC State's Poole College of Management's Master of Accounting Lifelong Learning Summit.
September 20, 2023: Presented "A Gentle Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" to the NC State Alumni Advisory's Employer Advisory Council.
September 12, 2023: A paper with Manuel Chica and Francisco Santos “The evolution and social cost of herding mentality promote cooperation” was accepted at iScience.
September 6, 2023: Provided commentary on the use of Delta-affiliated credit cards to WalletHub.
September 1, 2023: Received a seed grant from the Data Science Academy to study social media information pathways.
August 31, 2023: The paper, "A Generalization of Threshold-based and Probability-based Models of Information Diffusion" with Chathura Jayalath, Chathika Gunaratne, Chathurani Seneviratne, and Ivan Garibay has been accepted at Advances in Complex Systems.
August 6, 2023: Had fun discussing the intersection of Marketing and AI with Gib Bassett on the Data Table Podcast.
July 28, 2023: Our paper "Two decades of agent-based modeling in marketing: a bibliometric analysis" with Elena Romero, Manuel Chica, and Sergio Damas has been published at Progress in Artificial Intelligence.
July 25, 2023: Presented a talk on "How to Use Agent-Based Modeling" in Purdue's Computer Science department.
June 27, 2023: Accepted an invitaiton to be on the Foundation and Trends in Marketing Editorial Review Board.
May 5, 2023: Presented a seminar on "Data-Driven Methods for Agent-Based Modeling" at George Mason University's Computational and Data Sciences Seminar
April 6, 2023: Presented a guest lecture on "Theory-Interpretable, Data-Driven Agent-Based Modeling" as part of Emily Berglund's Agent-Based Modeling class.
March 31, 2023: Our special section on Inverse Generative Social Science has been published at the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.
March 27, 2023: Presented a plenary talk on "Adversarial Social Media" as part of the University Research Symposium.
March 25, 2023: Abhishek Shah and Shweta Shah won best student paper award at the SAIS Conference for their paper, "The Celebrity Factor: Modeling the Impact of Influencer Statements on the Public Perception toward COVID-19 Vaccines"
Mar 1, 2023: "Classification of social media users with generalized functional data analysis" with Anthony Weishampel and Ana-Maria Staicu has been published at Computational Statistics & Data Analysis.
Jan 18, 2023: Presented a talk on Social Media Marketing and Image Analytics for the ACC/SEC Annual Giving Conference.
Nov 18, 2022: Presented a talk on "The Business of Space" for the Center for Geospatial Analytics.
Nov 10, 2022: Presented a talk on "Adversarial Social Media" to the Illinois Tech Great Minds Seminar.
Sep 14, 2022: Presented an invited talk on how images affect consumer consideration / liking behavior on Instagram at the PRIMA conference.
Sep 13, 2022: Presented an invited talk with Gijs Overgoor on our "Champion of Images" paper as part of the Business Data Science Marketing Science seminar series.
Aug 5, 2022: Happy to be part of the program committee for Computational Social Science 2022.
Aug 1, 2022: "Evolution of Intent and Social Influence Networks and their Significance in Detecting COVID-19 Disinformation Actors on Social Media" was accepted for publication SBP-BRIMS.
July 22, 2022: Awarded a grant from DARPA to study "Influence Cascades Ecosystem: Entropy-Based Characterization and Modeling of Influence Patters and Pathways across Traditional and Social Media"
June 2, 2022: Presented an invited talk, "Social Media and Data Science" as part of St. Jude's Data Bootcamp.
May 25, 2022: Presented a talk with Kelly Hewett on "How Firms can steer Social Media Conversations" at EMAC 2022.
May 25, 2022: Participated in a panel on "Digital Marketing in a Cookieless World" as part of EMAC 2022.
May 24, 2022: Presented an invited talk at Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest on "Using Image Analytics and Deep Learning to Understand Consumer Decision-Making"
May 6, 2022: Awarded the Departmental and College-level Research Leadership Award.
December 29, 2021: "Simplicity is not Key: Understanding Firm-Generated Social Media Images and Consumer Liking" with Gijs Overgoor, Willemijn Van Dolen, and Masoud Mazloom was accepted at the International Journal of Research in Marketing.
November 5, 2021: Participated in a panel on Inverse Generative Social Science at the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas.
October 28, 2021: Presented an invited talk, “Introductory to Complexity Theory” at the Campbell College of Law.
October 25, 2021: Presented an invited talk to the University of Central Florida's Data Science Association on "Adversarial Social Media"
May 31, 2021: “Apart We Ride Together: The Motivations behind Users of Mixed-Reality Sports” with Daniel Westmattelmann, Jan-Gerritt Grotenhermen, Marius Springer, and Gerhard Schewe, was published in the Journal of Business Research.
May 10, 2021: Participated in a panel discussion on "Beyond Graduate School: Conversation with Industry Partners and Alumni" at Michigan State and gave a short talk called "From Computer Science to Marketing: How Did I End Up Here?:
April 15, 2021: Participated in a Podcast with Home Depot's CFO Richard McPhail and VP Erik Holbrook moderated by Jenny Hammond at the Poole College.
April 2, 2021: Presented a Keynote Address at the New England Regional Conference on Complex Systems on "Theory-Interpretable, Data-Driven Agent-Based Modeling"
June 17, 2021: Co-presented a talk "In the Eye of the Reviewer: An Application of Unsupervised Clustering to User Generated Imagery in Online Review " at SCECR 2021.
June 8, 2021: Presented a talk on "Creating ABMs from Big and Small Data" at the second annual Inverse Generative Social Science Workshop. Also organized and coordinated the event.
June 3, 2021: Presented joint work with Gijs Overgoor and Rohan Mestri, "In the Eye of the Reviewer: An Application of Unsupervised Clustering to User Generated Imagery in Online Reviews" at Marketing Science
May 28, 2021: Gijs Overgoor presented our work, "In the Eye of the Reviewer: An Application of Unsupervised Clustering to User Generated Imagery in Online Reviews" at EMAC
May 10, 2021: Participated in a panel discussion on "Beyond Graduate School: Conversation with Industry Partners and Alumni" at Michigan State and gave a short talk called "From Computer Science to Marketing: How Did I End Up Here?:
April 15, 2021: Participated in a Podcast with Home Depot's CFO Richard McPhail and VP Erik Holbrook moderated by Jenny Hammond at the Poole College.
April 2, 2021: Presented a Keynote Address at the New England Regional Conference on Complex Systems on "Theory-Interpretable, Data-Driven Agent-Based Modeling"
March 17, 2021: "Brand Buzz in the Echoverse", Kelly Hewett, William Rand, Roland Rust, and Harald van Heerde was named a finalist for the Sheth Foundation / Journal of Marketing Award.
February 10, 2021: "Agent-Based Modeling of New Product Market Diffusion" with Christian Stummer was accepted for publications at the Annals of Operations Research.
February 8, 2021: Participated in a Thought Leadership event on the future of Business Analytics with IBM and the Royal Bank of Canada at Poole College of Management.
February 1, 2021: Launched the new Master's of Management in Marketing Analytics as part of the Business Analytics Initiative
January 28, 2021: "Influence Cascades: Entropy-Based Characterization of Behavioral Influence Patterns in Social Media" with Chathurani Senevirathna, Chathika Gunaratne, Chathura Jayalath, and Ivan Garibay was accepted for publication at Entropy.
January 25, 2021: "Real-Time Brand Reputation Tracking Using Social Media" with Roland Rust, Ming-Hui Huang, Andrew T. Stephen, Gillian Brooks, and Timur Chabuk was accepted at the Journal of Marketing.
January 14, 2021: "Inferring mechanisms of response prioritization on social media under information overload" with Chathika Gunaratne and Ivan Garibay was accepted for publication at Nature Scientific Reports.
November 18, 2020: Presented an invited talk at the 81st Annual Symposium of the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants (NCACPA), "The Power of Big Data Analytics"
October 1, 2020: Launched the new Business Analytics Initiative, where I serve as Executive Director. Also launched the Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics
September 1, 2020: Received a grant from the the Laboratory of Analytical Sciences to study "Tracking and Modeling Influence Campaigns Across Social Media Platforms"
June 18, 2020: Was part of three talks at SCECR 2020. "Why Do People Click Next?”, "Bot Detection through Social Media Behavior Analyses”, and "Using a two-stage choice model to design a context-aware recommender system”.
June 11, 2020: Co-presented "Consider This: The Role Of Images During The Consideration Set Formation While Searching For Hotels Online" with Gijs Overgoor and "Predicting The Success Of Social Media Marketing Campaigns" with Anthony Weishampel online at Marketing Science.
May 19, 2020: Happy to serve as a member of the program committee of the 2020 Parallel Problem Solving from Nature Conference.
April 15, 2020: Serving as an Associate Editor for a Special Issue on Polarization in Social Media at the Information Systems Journal.
April 15, 2020: Appointed to the Graduate School of UNC-Charlotte.
February 14, 2020: Presented "Finding the Bots: Classification and Combat of Social Media Bots and Malignant Users" at Winter AMA.
February 3, 2020: Serving as an Associate Editor for a Special Issue on Market Design and Analytics at the Information Systems Research.
January 23-25, 2020: Organized and presented at the first ever Inverse Generative Social Science Workshop.
January 22, 2020: Sage Publishers created a video on agent-based modeling as a Marketing Research method that features conversations with me.
November 13, 2019: Participated in a panel discussion called "A Breakfast Conversation on How to Use Data for Decision Making" for the Poole College of Management's PNC Thought Leadership Series.
November 8, 2019: Presented an "Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling", a hands-on workshop, at the Santa Fe Institute's Annual Applied Complexity Network and Board of Trustees Symposium.
October 21, 2019: “The Effects of Information Overload on Online Conversation Dynamics” with Chathika Gunaratne, Nisha Baral, Ivan Garibay, Chathura Jayalath, and Chathurani Senevirathna, was published at Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.
October 21, 2019: Presented "Revolutionary Applications of Visual Analytics" and "A Framework for Cutting Edge Marketing Applications" at Teradata Universe with Gijs Overgoor.
October 15, 2019: Honored to accept an invitation to become a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Geospatial Analytics at NC State.
August 30, 2019: Took on the role of Social Media Editor at IJRM.
August 13, 2019: Appointed to the University Research Committee as a representative from the Poole College of Management.
July 17, 2019: "A Multi-Action Cascade Model of Conversation" with Chathika Gunaratne, Chathurani Senevirathna, Chathura Jayalath, Nisha Baral, and Ivan Garibay at the 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science.
July 2, 2019: “Is the Grass Greener? On the Strategic Implications of Moving Along the Value Chain for IT Service Providers”, with Anand Gopal, Sabari Karmegan, and Balaji Koka, was accepted for publication at Information Systems Research.
July 1, 2019: Our paper, "Inferring models of opinion dynamics from aggregated jury data", led by Keith Burghardt and co-authored with Michelle Given has been published by PLoS One.
June 24-28, 2019: Presented two talks at the University of Granada to the board of Zio Analytics on "Big Data, Machine Learning, and Agent-Based Modeling" and "Identifying Latent Characteristics of Social media Users"
June 21-22, 2019: Co-presented "The Champion Of Images: Understanding The Role Of Images In The Decision-Making Process Of Online Hotel Bookings " with Gijs Overgoor and "Detecting and Combating Social Media Bots " with Anthony Weishampel at Marketing Science in Rome.
June 18-19, 2019: Presented three talks at the 6th Mūnster Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling: (1) What is ABM and why should you use it?, (2) Guidelines for the Rigorous Development of Agent-Based Modeling, and (3) Can One Bad Apple Spoil the Bushel? How "Market Value" Can Increase Discrimination Even When Most Firms Are Fair?
June 15, 2019: Our paper, "Evidence of Herding and Stubbornness in Jury Deliberations", led by Keith Burghardt and co-authored with Michelle Girvan has recently been accepted for publication at PLoS One.
June 11-12, 2019: With Gijs Overgoor and Anthony Weishampel, presented three talks at SCECR 2019 in Hong Kong: (1) The Champion Of Images: Understanding The Role Of Images In The Decision-Making Process Of Online Hotel Bookings (w/ Gijs), (2) Classification of Social Media Users using a Generalized Multilevel Functional Analysis (w/ Anthony), and (3) Location Planning for Maximizing Customer Visits of Brick-and-Mortar Stores
May 24-27, 2019: Taught a workshop on Agent-Based Modeling as part of the Dynamics of Complex Systems Summer School at the International Center for Theoretical Sciences, part of the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Bangalore, India.
May 10, 2019: "Letting the Computers Take Over: Using AI to Solve Marketing Problems" was accepted for publication in California Management Review.
April 5, 2019: Received the Poole College of Management Research Leadership Award and the Poole College of Management Summer Research Award.
April 1-3, 2019: Presented "Diffusion of Information on Social Media" at the University Global Partnership Network at NC State University.
March 18, 2019: Presented a poster, "Diffusion of Information on Social Media" at the NC State University Research Symposium.
March 7-9, 2019: Presented two papers ("Combating Social Media Bots" with Anthony Weishampel and "The Champion of Images: Understanding the Role of Images in the Decision-making Process of Online Hotel Bookings" with Gijs Overgoor) and a poster presentation ("Shock Prediction Using Vital Sign Time Series" with Iris Bennett) at the Winter Conference on Business Analytics.
February 22-24, 2019: Presented two papers ("Combatting Social Media Bots" with Anthony Weishampel and "The Champion of Images: Understanding the Role of Images in the Decision-making Process of Online Hotel Bookings" with Gijs Overgoor) and participated in a panel discussion ("Complexity Theories and Applications -An Interdisciplinary Roundtable") at the American Marketing Association's Winter Academic Conference.
December 13, 2018: My SocialSim Team took second place at the DARPA December challenge competition for simulating Twitter, Reddit, and Github.
December 10, 2018: Our paper on the "Computational Landscape of User Behavior on Social Media" was accepted for publication in Physical Review E.
December 7, 2018: Presented a talk on the "Future of Social Listening" as part of a workshop on Social Listening and Policymaking at Centra in Arlington, VA.
December 7, 2018: "Characterising Climate Change Discourse on Social Media during Extreme Weather Events" was accepted for publication at Global Environmental Change.
November 29-30, 2018: Presented a Workshop on "Computational Modeling: Design, Construction, and Evaluation" for the Army Research Institute in Fort Belvoir, VA.
November 9, 2018: "The Complex Network of Things: When Technology is Making the Deal" was accepted for publication at Marketing Intelligence Review.
October 16, 2018: Presented a talk with Gijs Overgoor on "Image Analytics at Scale", which discusses our collaboration with Expedia at Teradata Analytics Universe in Las Vegas, NV.
August 5, 2018: Honored to be on the Scientific Advisory Board of Zio. An innovative marketing analytics firm with Manuel Chica, a former postdoc, as Chief AI Officer.
July 18-19, 2018: Presented two talks at the 5th Münster Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling at the University of Münster: "Simulating macro-level effects from micro-level observations" and "Guidelines for the Rigorous Development of Agent-Based Modeling."
July , 2018: Participated in a panel on "The Future of Complex Systems Education" at the Santa Fe Institute as part of the SFI Alumni Reunion.
July 5, 2018: Presented an invited talk virtually: “Simulating Macro-Level Effects from Micro-Level Observations” as part of the workshop From Cases to General Principles: Theory Development through Agent-Based Modeling Symposium in Hanover, Germany.
June 30, 2018: "Complex Systems: Marketing's New Frontier" with Roland Rust and Min Kim was accepted for publication at the Academy of Marketing Science Review.
June 26, 2018: Presented "You Are When You Tweet" at the Forum Numerica seminar series at the Université Côte d'Azur.
June 19, 2018: Presented two talks at the Statistical Challenges in Ecommerce Research (SCECR) 2018: (1) "Simplicity is not Key: Automatically Identifying Concepts in Firm-Generated Social Media Images that Engage Consumers" (with Gijs Overgoor), and (2) "You Are When You Tweet" (with Anthony Weishampel)
June 13, 2018: Named an Army Research Institute Senior Consortium Research Fellow.
May 12, 2018: Presented “Simplicity is not Key: Automatically Identifying Concepts in Firm-Generated Social Media Images and Consumer Engagement” at the Department of Marketing Seminar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
April 23, 2018: Kicked off the 2018 Complexity Challenge for the Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Explorer
February 23-25, 2018: Presented two talks at the AMA Winter Educators Conference: (1) "Simplicity is not Key: Automatically Identifying Concepts in Firm-Generated Social Media Images that Engage Consumers" (with Gijs Overgoor), and (2) "You Are When You Tweet" (with Anthony Weishampel)
February 2, 2018: Presented as part of the Carlson School of Management MIS Friday Research Workshop, "Extracting Actionable Marketing Intelligence from Social Media Data using Machine Learning" at the University of Minnesota.
December 14, 2017: Presented at the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) which is part of the International Conference on Information Systems in Seoul, Korea, "Simplicity is not Key: Automatically Identifying Concepts in Firm-Generated Social Media Images that Engage Consumers" (with Gijs Overgoor). Anthony Weishampel presented our work on "You Are When You Tweet" at the same meeting.
November 30, 2017: Presented "The Importance of Social Media" to a group of Sweet Potato and Tobacco Farmers of North Carolina at NC State.
November 15, 2017: Presented "Social Media Monitoring for Materials of Concern" to the American Coatings Association joint project with the Center for Innovation Management Studies at NC State.
November 7, 2017: Presented "Using Big Data, Social Networks, and Agent-Based Modeling to Understand Information Diffusion" at the Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems Seminar at Binghamton University.
October 24-25, 2017: Participated in a roundtable on "Customer Decisioning in the Digital and Mobile Age" with Andrew Stephen and John Deighton at Teradata Partners, and interviewed as part of the Teradata Partners Virtual Conference Newsdesk about "AI, Marketing, and the Customer Journey".
September 22, 2017: Presented "Data-Driven, Theory-Interpretable Computational Social Modeling" at UNCC's Data Science Initiative Seminar and "Can One Bad Apple Spoil the Bunch? How 'Market Value' Can Increase Discrimination and Inequality Even When Most Firms Are Fair" at UNCC's Complex Systems Institute Seminar.
August 31, 2017: Presented "Brand Reputation Tracker: Update and Illustrative Research" as part of the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School's Center for Corporate Reputation Annual Symposium.
August 7-10, 2017: Taught a Tech Bootcamp / Workshop on using R, Python, and Amazon Web Services for Business Analytics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
July 26, 2017: Presented an invitational talk, "Building Agent-Based Decision Support Systems for Network-based Communication", at the Santa Fe Institute's Short Course on Big Data and Networks in New York City.
July 5, 2017: "Brand Buzz in the Echoverse", Kelly Hewett, William Rand, Roland Rust, and Harald van Heerde is named Best Published Paper of 2016 by the Oxford Centre for Corporate Reputation.
June 28, 2017: "You Are When You Tweet" with Anthony Weishampel was presented at Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR) 2017 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
June 10, 2017: Two talks at Marketing Science in Los Angeles: (1) "Who Will Become The Next Hub?: An Early Prediction Framework For Influential Users During Urgent Events", and (2) "Don't Do It Right, Do It Fast: Speed and Quality of Innovation as an Emergent Process"
June 9, 2017: “Simulating macro-level effects from micro-level observations”, Ned Smith and William Rand is accepted at Management Science.
June 2, 2017: "Consumer Connectivity in a Complex, Technology-Enabled, and Mobile-Oriented World with Smart Products." with Peter C. Verhoef, Andrew T. Stephen, PK Kannan, Xueming Luo, Vibhanshu Abhishek, Michelle Andrews, Yakov Bart, Hannes Datta, Nathan M. Fong, Donna L. Hoffman, Mandy Hu, Thomas P. Novak, William Rand, and Yuchi Zhang is accepted at Journal of Interactive Marketing.
May 25, 2017: Two talks at the European Marketing Academy Conference in Groningen: (1) "Who Will Become The Next Hub?: An Early Prediction Framework For Influential Users During Urgent Events", and (2) "A Brand Reputation Tracker And Database: Methodology and Initial Results"
May 24, 2017: Outstanding Editorial Review Board Member Award from the International Journal of Research in Marketi
May 17, 2017: Talk on Using Big Data, Social Networks, and Agent-Based Modeling to Understand Information Diffusion at the Laboratory for Analytical Science's Wednesday Research Meeting.
May 10, 2017: Brand Buzz in the Echoverse with Kelly Hewett, William Rand, Roland Rust, and Harald van Heerde is a finalist for the MSI H. Paul Root Award.
May 5, 2017: An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling, the award-winning MOOC hosted by the Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Explorer will be launching for the second time on June 5th.
April 24, 2017: Invited talk on Using Big Data, Social Networks, and Agent-Based Modeling to Understand Information Diffusion as part of the computer science seminar series at Vanderbilt University.
March 15, 2017: The Myopia of Crowds: Cognitive Load and Collective Evaluation of Answers on Stack Exchange, a paper with Keith Burghardt, Emanuel Alsina, Michelle Girvan, William Rand, and Kristina Lerman, was published in the journal, PLoS ONE.January 23-25: Organized and presented at the first ever Inverse Generative Social Science Workshop.