Robert Ward

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, a visiting student researcher at Stanford University and in the Interaction Data Lab (Learning Planet Institute, Université Paris Cité).

I study how people, organizations and ideas form relationships, and how the structures that result shape science and innovation.

One stream of my research is focused on designing interventions on social network formation, with applications to scientific collaboration and work organizations. Another stream of research focuses on how the social structure of science creates categories that affect how atypical contributors and contributions are received by the scientific community.

Across both streams I build big data and develop novel computational methods to reveal the structure and mechanisms of collective behavior.

I am on the job market this year for faculty and postdoctoral positions.

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