Lab Members


Lab Director

Prof. Babak Heydari (Link to more details)

Current Lab Members

Affiliated Research Scholars and Visiting Faculty

  • Yakov Bart (Visiting Faculty). Research Interests: Platforms and Multi-Sided Markets, Causal Inference in Business Ecosystems.

PhD Students

  • Qingtao Cao (PhD student). Research Interests: Network Science, Multi-Agent Systems, Sharing Economy, Computational Methods for Policy and Regulations, Project: Behavioral Modeling of Multi-Agent SocioTechnical Systems.

  • Soumyakant Padhee (PhD student). Research Interests: Innovation in Engineering Design Teams, Causal Identification in SocioTechnical Systems, Experimental methods.

  • Qiliang Chen (PhD Student). Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Meta Reinforcement Learning, Modularity, Multi-Agent Systems.

  • Negin Maddah (PhD Student). Research Interests: Computational Social Science, Intelligent SocioTechnical Systems, Process Mining.

  • Nunzio Lore (Network Science PhD Student): Research Interests: Network Science, Game Theory, Agent-Based Modeling, Fairness in AI Platforms.

Masters and Undergraduate Researchers

  • Gabriele Ansaldo (Masters Student)

  • Akarsh Singh (Masters Student)

Past Graduate Student and Postdoc Members

Postdocs, PhD and Masters Students (with Thesis Option):

  • Mohsen Mosleh (PhD Student): First job after graduation: Postdoc at Yale/MIT.

  • David Gianetto (PhD Student): First job after graduation: Engineering Fellow at Raytheon.

  • Kia Dalili (Postdoctoral Fellow): First job after graduation: Lead Data Scientist at Facebook.

  • Abhilash Janardhanan (Masters Student), First job after graduation: Data Science Manager at Abercrombie & Fitch

Student Researchers

  • Liang Ke (Graduate Student/ School of Public Policy)

  • Amar Chheda (Graduate Student)

  • Peter Ludlow (Graduate student, Stevens)

  • Abbas Ehsanfar (Graduate student, Stevens)