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Joshua M. Epstein

Joshua M. Epstein

Director, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

A pioneer in agent-based computational modeling, Josh Epstein has recently done groundbreaking work on epidemics and bioterrorism. He has used computational modeling to study civil violence and smoking behavior.  



Expertise

Modeling of complex social, economic, and biological systems.; Non-linear Dynamics; Economic policy; Public health policy; National Security Policy; Civil Violence.

Background

Current Positions
Member of External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute; External Research Professor, The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University; Member, Editorial Board, Complexity; Member, Editorial Board, Princeton University Press Studies in Complexity book series. Leads modeling and simulation efforts for the National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER) and the National Institutes of Health's Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS).

Past Positions
Visiting Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; International Relations Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation; International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Department of State and U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee; Consultant, RAND Corporation.

Education

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981;B.A., Amherst College, 1976

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Q&A with Josh Epstein

Computational Modeling

"A high school math teacher in Omaha, Nebraska should be interested in the work at the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics because it makes the study of social dynamics fascinating ... And it’ll make kids thrilled with questions like, how do epidemics spread, how do fads start and stop, what are the spatial dynamics of disease, of violence, of all sorts of things .. "

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