Current Members
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Rick Gardner
Email: regardn1@uci.edu
Department: Sociology
Program: Sociology, PhD
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Sabrina Mai
Email: sabrim2@uci.edu
Personal Website: sabrinamairesearch.com
Program: Sociology, PhD
Department: Sociology
Research Interests: Social Networks, Natural Language Processing, Disasters, Mathematical Sociology
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Zixiao Zong
Email: zzong2@uci.edu
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Alexander Murray-Watters
Email: amurrayw@uci.edu
Personal Website: www.amurrayw.com
CV: http://amurrayw.com/cv/cv_current.pdf
Program: Sociology, PhD
Department: Sociology
Research Interests: Causal Discovery and Modeling, Empirical Validation of Computational Simulation Models, Non-Probability Sampling, Social Network Analysis, Dynamic network models, Machine Learning, Model Selection, Quantitative Models of History, Nationalism
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Frances Beresford
Email: fberesfo@uci.edu
Program: Statistics, PhD
Department: Statistics
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