Faculty & Administrators

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

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
Term 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 Atencio
Assistant Professor

Computational and 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

Department of Social Work, College of Health and Human Services

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

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

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


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.