Specialization: Social Sciences

• June Yang

  

  June Yang is a research scientist at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology and the eScience Institute. As a Computational Demographer, June focuses on applying Natural Language Processing methods to the study of population family formation processes, gender disparity, and demographic inference. She is expanding her skillset by using Large Language Models in…

• Curtis Atkisson

  

  Curtis Atkisson joined the eScience Institute in Feb 2024. He received his PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology from UC Davis with a designated emphasis in Computational Social Science. His dissertation was on how changes in people’s complex social networks impact their cooperative behavior. This work involved ethnography, participant observation, and surveys done amongst the Makushi (and…

• Monica Keith

  

  As an anthropologist, I research biocultural variation in health disparities and child growth outcomes across diverse populations. I develop Bayesian models to make data-driven inferences and am currently working with longitudinal data from Argentina, Bangladesh, Dominica, and the US to address concerns and disparities in maternal health, pregnancy outcomes, infant and child growth, disease ecologies,…

• Rayleigh Lei

  

  I am a post-doc in the Department of Statistics. Motivated by data sets with interesting phenomena, but few variables to describe or explain the phenomena, I work to develop, fit, and understand the statistical properties of Bayesian models. Currently, I am working with Prof. Abel Rodriguez on creating and implementing circular models to better represent…

• Jose Manuel Magallanes, Ph.D.

  

  Professor Jose Manuel Magallanes is a Senior Data Scientist at the eScience Institute. He has ben a Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, and has been a Visiting Professor of Computational Public Policy at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance from Mid 2015 until 2025. Professor Magallanes appointment has been funded by the…

• Tyler McCormick

  

  Tyler McCormick is an Assistant Professor of Statistics and Sociology at the University of Washington, where he is also a core faculty member in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences and a Senior Data Science Fellow of the eScience Institute. His research develops statistical models that leverage social network structure to understand the…

• Ben Marwick

  

  Ben Marwick’s main research activities combine models from evolutionary ecology with analyses of archaeological evidence to investigate past human behaviour. Specific interests include the hominin colonisation of mainland Southeast Asia, forager technologies and ecology in Australia, mainland Southeast Asia and Africa. Ben directs the UW Geoarchaeology Laboratory and studies archaeology and popular culture, specifically blockbuster…

• Anissa Tanweer

  

  Anissa Tanweer is a Senior Social Scientist at the eScience Institute, an Affiliate Faculty member in the Department of Communication, and a sociotechnical expert for the Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC). She conducts ethnographic research on the practice and culture of computationally-mediated science, and applies a sociotechnical lens to the design and implementation of training…