Talks
Agent-based Simulations for Assessing Vulnerability
Invited presentation to the CDC Geospatial Working Group (Virtual), Mar 30, 2023.
AgTwin: A Digital Twin of Agricultural Populations and Processes
Invited vignette presentation at SocSimFest '23 (Virtual), Mar 15, 2023.
On the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Agent-based Modeling
Invited talk to the Technology for Trade project group, Washington State University (Virtual), Aug 26, 2022.
Invited Panelist
The Mekong Environment Forum Scientific Symposium on Building a Methodology for Identifying Infectious Disease Hotspots and Measuring Women's Vulnerability to Health Crisis, Can Tho City, Vietnam, and Virtual, May 23, 2022.
A Framework for Modeling Complex Human Behaviors in Epidemic Simulations
Invited talk in the Global Pervasive Computational Epidemiology seminar series, hosted by the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute (Virtual), Apr 14, 2022.
Agent-based Simulations for Disaster Preparedness
Invited talk at the Center for Complex Systems Studies, Utrecht University, Mar 24, 2022.
Data Assimilation for Pandemic Modeling
Invited presentation at the Workshop on Towards real-time numerical simulations of human-environment systems: data assimilation & agent-based modelling, Alan Turing Institute (Virtual), May 26, 2021.
Mobility and Behavior Modeling for COVID-19
Keynote talk at the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Simulation (Virtual), Nov 2020.
So You've Built a Big Simulation, Now What?
Invited talk at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, Old Dominion University, July 2019.
Simulation Analytics for Social and Behavioral Modeling
Keynote talk at the Workshop on Agent-based Modeling of Urban Systems (ABMUS), Montreal, Canada, May 2019.
Best Practices for Generating Artificial Societies
Invited round-table participant at SpringSim 2019, Tucson, AZ.
Sense-making for Large-scale Social Simulations
Invited talk at the Big Scientific Data Management (BigSDM) Conference, Beijing, China, Nov 2018.
Optimal Sentinel Placement on a Network to Infer the Transmission Probability of a Contagion
At the INFORMS 2018 Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, Nov 2018.
Evolving Virtual Social Habitats to Study Human Mobility
At the Conference on International Refugee Research: Evidence for Smart Policy, Tutzing, Germany, March 2018.
People, Places, and Words
Invited talk at Viral Networks: An Advanced Workshop in Medical History and Digital Humanities, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, Jan 2018.
Panel on Methodology and Data Integrity
Invited panelist for the SPIA International Refugee Research Workshop, Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA, Oct 2017.
Academic Collaborations Panel
Invited panelist for the South Big Data Hub Workshop on The Internet of Things for Smart and Connected Cities and Campuses, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Apr 2017.
The Synthetic Information Approach to Urban Analytics
Invited talk at the School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, Feb (in Blacksburg) and Apr (in Alexandria), 2017.
The Synthetic Information Approach to Social Simulation
Keynote talk at the DARPA ISAT Workshop on Symbiotic Architectures for Social Simulation, Los Angeles, CA, Oct 2016.
Behavior Modeling for Social Simulation
Invited talk at the Center for Modeling Complex Interactions, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, Sep 2016.
Generating Synthetic Populations for Computational Epidemiology
At the Workshop on the Generation of Synthetic Populations, held in conjunction with The Eleventh Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Groningen, NL, Sep 2015.
The Quantitative Turn in Regional Analysis: The possibilities and limitations of Big Data
Invited talk at the Riva meeting on Critical Perspectives on Post-Crisis Resilience, Riva San Vitale, Switzerland, July 2015 (with Chris Barrett).
Prescriptive Analytics for Urban Resilience
At the AAAI Fall Symposium on Social Networks and Social Contagion, Arlington, VA, Nov 2013.
Simulating Human Behavior in the Aftermath of a Catastrophe
At the AAAI Fall Symposium on Social Networks and Social Contagion, Arlington, VA, Nov 2012.
Computational Social Science @ NDSSL
Invited talk at the VBI Annual Research Symposium, Blacksburg, VA, Mar 2012.
Language Change over Generations and over Social Networks
Invited talk at The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, Mar 2010.
Centers, Peripheries, and Popularity: The Emergence of Norms in Networks of Linguistic Influence
Invited talk at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK, Mar 2010.
Recent Results in Constructive Language Evolution and its Generalizations
Invited talk at Argonne National Lab, Argonne, IL, USA, Apr 2008 (with Les Gasser),
Invited talk at the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Paris, France, Mar 2008 (with Les Gasser),
Invited talk at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Mar 2008 (with Les Gasser and Kiran Lakkaraju).
Simple, but Not Too Simple: Collective Learning and Language Evolution
At the Workshop on Statistical Physics of Social Dynamics: Opinions, Semiotic Dynamics, and Language, Erice, Sicily, Jul 2007.