Network Systems: Connecting the Dots On a recent episode of the radio show Choose the Be Curious, Dani Bassett discussed her work at the intersection of basic science, engineering, and clinical medicine — and how she’s taking on curiosity itself. Bioengineering Electrical and Systems Engineering caret-arrow Ubiquity of Data
Machine learning identifies personalized brain networks in children In a new study published in the journal Neuron, a multidisciplinary team led by Ted Satterthwaite used machine learning techniques to show how brain networks unique to each child can predict cognition. Psychiatry caret-arrow Evolution, Emergence and the Brain
What’s behind some of the market volatility? Algorithms. Behind all the fluctuations we are seeing daily — sometimes even every minute — in the stock market is a hard, cold algorithm that’s driving trading. Michael Kearns discusses this and more on NPR's Marketplace. Computer and Information Science caret-arrow Social Norms for Algorithms
Helpful interactions can keep societies stable New work by Erol Akçay challenges 50-year-old predictions that mutualistic interactions make a community unstable. His work shows that mutualism is compatible with stable communities and that the balance of mutualism with other types of interactions plays determinative roles in the makeup, size, and stability of those communities. Biology caret-arrow Consensus and Contagion in Society
How to Build an Ethical Algorithm Algorithms determine a huge amount about the way we live and work online. They determine what we see online and can tell us what type of healthcare we're going to get. On a recent episode of Fast Forward, Michael Kearns explains how AI systems will change the world for the better—if we design them the right way. Computer and Information Science caret-arrow Social Norms for Algorithms
Illuminating interactions between decision-making and the environment In a new publication in Nature Communications, Erol Akçay presents a unifying game theory model describing the feedbacks that occur between strategic decision making and environmental change captured dynamics that occur in fisheries, in human social interactions, in soil-microbe interactions, and much more. Biology caret-arrow Consensus and Contagion in Society
Lyle Ungar Named AAAS Leshner Public Engagement Fellow The American Association for the Advancement of Science has selected twelve researchers in the area of AI as the 2020–2021 Alan I. Leshner Leadership Institute Public Engagement Fellows. Lyle Ungar is being recognized for his work using machine learning and text mining on social media messages to study physical and mental health. Computer and Information Science caret-arrow
New Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, & Mixed Methodologies Ezekiel Dixon-Román and others recently announced the launch of the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, & Mixed Methodologies. The training institute is designed for scholars from underrepresented backgrounds as well as for scholars doing critical research on communities of color. Social Policy caret-arrow
Weijie Su named 2020 Sloan Research Fellow Weijie Su, Assistant Professor of Statistics, is among the 126 recipients of the 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship. The award recognizes early-career researchers and scholars in the United States and Canada, and each recipient will receive a two-year, $70,000 Fellowship for their research. Statistics caret-arrow
Co-Edited by Professor González-Bailón, New Book Features Work By Penn Faculty and Alumni Oxford University Press has published The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication, which is co-edited by Sandra González-Bailón. This handbook brings together scholars across the social and technological sciences to lay the foundations of communication research in the networked age. Communication caret-arrow Consensus and Contagion in Society
