DUNCAN J.
WATTS
I’m a computational social scientist at the University of Pennsylvania.
I’m interested in social and organizational networks, collective dynamics of human systems, web-based experiments, and analysis of large-scale digital data, including production, consumption, and absorption of news.
I’m the Stevens University Professor and twenty-third Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where I hold primary faculty appointments in the Annenberg School of Communication, the Department of Computer and Information Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Department of Operations, Information and Decisions in the Wharton School. I also hold a secondary appointment in the Sociology Department in the School of Arts and Sciences, and am the founder and director of the Computational Social Science Lab at Penn.
I am also the inaugural President of the International Society for Computational Social Science (ISCSS), an organization committed to advancing path-breaking research at the intersection of the computational, experimental, social, and behavioral sciences. Comprised of multidisciplinary researchers from around the globe, the Society’s main purpose is to organize and manage the annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC²S²), which has emerged as the dominant conference in the field.
I’m a computational social scientist at the University of Pennsylvania.
I’m interested in social and organizational networks, collective dynamics of human systems, web-based experiments, and analysis of large-scale digital data, including the production, consumption, and absorption of news.
I’m the Stevens University Professor and twenty-third Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to my appointment at the Annenberg School, I hold faculty appointments in the Department of Computer and Information Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Department of Operations, Information and Decisions in the Wharton School, where I am the inaugural Rowan Fellow.
RESEARCH
My research on social networks and collective dynamics has appeared in a wide range of journals, from Nature, Science, and Physical Review Letters to the American Journal of Sociology and Harvard Business Review, and has been recognized by the 2009 German Physical Society Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics, the 2013 Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize for Complexity Science, and the 2014 Everett M. Rogers Award. I was named an inaugural fellow of the Network Science Society in 2018, a Carnegie Fellow in 2020, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2021.
RESEARCH
My research on social networks and collective dynamics has appeared in a wide range of journals, from Nature, Science, and Physical Review Letters to the American Journal of Sociology and Harvard Business Review, and has been recognized by the 2009 German Physical Society Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics, the 2013 Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize for Complexity Science, and the 2014 Everett M. Rogers Award. I was named an inaugural fellow of the Network Science Society in 2018 and a Carnegie Fellow in 2020.
Recent Work
Recent Work
Recent Work
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
