Executive Directors

Phil Bonacich
Affiliation: Sociology
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Interests: Professor Bonacich is particularly interested in simulating complex social networks.

Susanne Lohmann
Affiliation: Political Science
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Interests: collective action, central banking, ethics and governance, higher education, and mathematical modeling.

Dario Nardi
Affiliation: Program in Computing, Honors Collegium
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Interests: artificial intelligence, social and meta-cognition, group dynamics, personality theory, curriculum design, role-playing games, and robotics.

Francis Steen
Affiliation: Communications
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Interests: evolutionary adaptation, role of play, game- and simulation-based learning, imagination, cultural/cognitive development.

Nicholas Gessler
Affiliation: Geography, Design | Media Arts, Honors Collegium
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Interests: artificial culture - experiments in synthetic anthropology, evolving cultural things-that-think, distributed cultural cognition, multiagent spatial simulation and dynamical hierarchical synthesis.

Bill McKelvey
Affiliation: Management
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Interests: coevolution, human & social capital, knowledge management, distributed intelligence, organizational dynamics and design.

Dwight Read, Chair
Affiliation: Anthropology, Statistics
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Interests: biological and mathematical anthropology, kinship terminology, social organization, hominid evolution, archaeological classification.

Associated Faculty

Our faculty share an interest in modeling and simulation, with an emphasis on agent-based, bottom-up and adaptive-learning approaches.