Duncan Watts

Stevens University Professor

Annenberg School for Communication

Computer and Information Science

Operations, Information and Decisions

Office: Amy Gutmann Hall, 500G

Research Areas

  • Social and Organizational Networks
  • Collective Dynamics of Human Systems
  • Web-based Experiments
  • Analysis of large-scale digital data

Awards

2023: National Academy of Sciences

2021: Fellow of the AAAS

2020: Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

Projects/Papers

30 Five Feet at a Time
The exciting potential and daunting challenge of using GPS human-mobility data for epidemic modeling
Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook

Students

PhDs:

Samar Haider (co-advised with Chris Callison-Burch)

Upasana Dutta

Sikata Sengupta (co-advised with Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth)

Josh Nguyen