Research

Research Interests

My research interests are broad and interdisciplinary, but they center around using mathematical ideas from network science, game theory, probability, and game theory to build and analyze models of complex systems. To me, mathematics is a set of powerful tools to better understand the increasingly complex world around us. New modes of group behavior continue to emerge in our society, and my research involves using a powerful combination of mathematical analysis, computation, and data to not only understand how these complex social systems function, but how they can be changed to bring about a better world.

Published Papers

Simple Autonomous Agents can Enhance Creative Semantic Discovery by Human Groups (with A. Ueshima and N. Christakis), Nature Communications 15(5212), 2024 (pdf)

Containing Misinformation: Spatial Games of Fake News (with S. Pauls and F. Fu), PNAS Nexus 3(3), 2024 (pdf)

Estimating Recycling of Fish in Catch-and-Release Fisheries (with T. Jones, M. Treml, and T. Heinrich), Fisheries 47(12), 2022 (pdf)

Polarization, abstention, and the median voter theorem (with A. Sirianni and F. Fu), Humanities and Social Science Communications 9(43), 2022 (pdf)

The dual problems of coordination and anti-coordination on random bipartite graphs (with S. Pauls and F. Fu), New Journal of Physics 23(113018), 2021 (pdf)

Random choices facilitate solutions to collective network coloring problems by artificial agents (with S. Pauls and F. Fu), iScience 24(4), 2021 (pdf)

Preprints

Bringing Leaders of Network Sub-Groups Closer Together Does Not Facilitate Consensus (with N. Christakis), arXiv: 2408.09309, 2024 (pdf)

New fairness criteria for truncated ballots in multi-winner ranked-choice elections (with A. Graham-Squire and D. McCune), arXiv: 2408.03926, 2024 (pdf)

Equilibria and Group Welfare in Vote Trading Systems, arXiv: 2406.09536, 2024 (pdf)

It Is Easy For Multi-Issue Bundles To Advance Anti-Democratic Agendas (with M. Chervenak and N. Christakis), arXiv: 2307.11873, 2023 (pdf)

Ph.D. Thesis

Here is a link to my Ph.D. thesis, titled Evolutionary Dynamics of Collective Action Problems (pdf)