Faculty & Administrators – Center for Social Complexity

Co-Directors

Hamdi Kavak

Assistant Professor, Center for Social Complexity, Department of Computational and Data Sciences

William G. Kennedy

Associate Professor (term), Center for Social Complexity, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, and Department of Psychology

Sean Luke

Associate Director, Center for Social Complexity; Department of Computer Science, Volgenau School of Engineering

Members

Andrew Crooks

Professor

Department of Geography and RENEW Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo

Arie Croitoru

Professor

Department of Computational & Data Sciences

Carlotta Domeniconi

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science

Celso Ferreira

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, Volgenau School of Engineering

Christopher Dyer

Professor of Anthropology

University of New Mexico

Dale Rothman

Associate Professor

Computational Social Science Program, Department of Computational & Data Sciences

Douglas Irvine-Erickson

Assistant Professor and Director of the Genocide Prevention Program

Conflict Analysis and Resolution

Eduardo López

Associate Professor

Department of Computational & Data Sciences

Hoda Bidkhori

Assistant Professor

Department of Computational & Data Sciences

James Finkel

Conflict Analysis and Resolution

James Thompson

Professor

Department of Psychology, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Jennifer Victor

Associate Professor

Schar School of Policy and Government

JoAnn Lee

Associate Professor

School of Social Work, University at Buffalo

Juliette Shedd

Associate Dean

School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution

J. Daniel Rogers

Curator of North American and Central Asian Archaeology

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Matthew Brashears

Professor and Chair

Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina

Maxim Malikov

Postgraduate Researcher

George Mason University

Michael Jarret Baume

Assistant Professor, Associate Director of Quantum Science and Engineering Center

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Department of Computer Science

Michael Wolf-Branigian

Chair and Professor

Department of Social Work, College of Health and Human Services

Naoru Koizumi

Director of Research, Associate Professor, and Associate Director of the Center for Study of International Medical Policies and Practices

Schar School of Policy and Government

Olga Gkountouna

Assistant Professor

Computational and Data Sciences

Philippe J. Giabbanelli

Professor

Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center, Old Dominion University

Richard Klimoski

Director of faculty research and professor and area chair of Management

School of Business

Robert Axtell

Professor; Co-director, Computational Public Policy Lab

Computational and Data Sciences

Robert Simon

Professor

Department of Computer Science, Volgenau School of Engineering

Ron Mahabir

Assistant Professor

Department of Computational and Data Sciences, College of Science

Ross Gore

Research Associate Professor

Center for Secure and Intelligent Critical Systems, Old Dominion University

Founder

Claudio Cioffi

University Professor Emeritus; Founder and former Director, Center for Social Complexity

External Research Associates

Meysam Alizadeh, PhD. Postdoctoral research associate, Princeton University.
Thomas Dover, PhD. Research analyst with the USG.
Tim Gulden, PhD. Policy researcher with Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, CA.
Ates Hailegiorgis, PhD. Computational social science research analyst at USAA headquarters, San Antonio, TX.
Jose Manuel Magallanes, PhD. Senior Data Science Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle, and Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru.
Hugh McFarland, PhD. Research analyst, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Peter Revay, PhD. Research scientist with Group W, Inc.
Karl Selke, PhD. Research scientist with Group W, Inc.

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