William Michael Rand - rhsmith.umd.edu · Curriculum Vitae April 2015 CONTACT INFORMATION Robert H. Smith School of Business 3457 Van Munching Hall University of Maryland College

William Michael Rand

Curriculum Vitae April 2015

CONTACT INFORMATION Robert H. Smith School of Business 3457 Van Munching Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA 20742-1815 Telephone: 1-301-405-7229 Cell: 1-734-717-7965 E-mail: [email protected] CURRENT AFFILIATIONS University of Maryland Director, Center for Complexity in Business Assistant Professor of Marketing Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computational Studies Affiliate Assistant Professor of Decision, Operations, and Information Technology Affiliate Assistant Professor of Computer Science Affiliate Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Statistics, and Scientific Computation Northwestern University Affiliate Faculty of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) EDUCATION Ph.D.: Ph.D., University of Michigan, Computer Science, Co-Chairs John Holland and Rick Riolo,

“Controlled Observations of the Genetic Algorithm in a Changing Environment: Case Studies using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions” 2005

M.S.: Computer Science, University of Michigan, 2001 Certificate of Study in Complex Systems, University of Michigan 2001 B.S.: Computer Science (with Honors), Michigan State University, 1999 B.A.: Philosophy (with Honors), Michigan State University, 1999 PAST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Northwestern University, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Center for Connected

Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Fall of 2005 to Summer of 2008

University of Michigan, Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) and the School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE), Research Assistant for Agent-Based Modeling of Urban Sprawl, Ann Arbor, MI, Fall of 2001 to Summer of 2005

University of Michigan, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Instructor for Complex Systems Models in Social Science, Ann Arbor, MI, Summer of 2004

University of Michigan, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Graduate Student Instructor for EECS 183 (Elementary Programming Concepts), Ann Arbor, MI, Fall of 2001

University of Michigan, Academic Success Program, Tutor, Ann Arbor, MI, Fall of 2001 and Winter of 2002

Mitsubishi Chemical, Knowledge Management, Research Assistant, Yokohama, Japan, Summer of 2001 University of Michigan, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Research Fellow in Music

Information Retrieval, Ann Arbor, MI, Fall of 1999 through Winter of 2001 University of Michigan, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Graduate Student Instructor for

EECS 492 (Intro to AI), Ann Arbor, MI, Fall of 2000 Michigan State University, Computer Science, Research Assistant in Genetic Programming, East

Lansing, MI, Fall of 1994 through Summer of 1999 Michigan State University, Computer Science, Teaching Assistant for CSE 131 (Intro to Technical

Computing), East Lansing, MI, Winter of 1999 Michigan State University, Computer Science, Teaching Assistant for CSE 440 (Intro to AI), East

Lansing, MI, Fall of 1998 IBM, AS/400 Internet and Database Areas, Assistant Developer, Rochester, MN, Summers of 1996,

1997 and 1998 JOURNAL ARTICLES (17) “An Agent-Based Model of Urgent Diffusion in a Crisis” Jeffrey Herrmann, William Rand, Brandon

Schein and Neža Vodopivec, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2015, 18 (2) 1 http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/18/2/1.html.

“Product Diffusion and Synthetic Networks: Improving Pre-Launch Forecasts with Simulated Priors”, Michael Trusov, William Rand, and Yogesh Joshi, Journal of Marketing Research, 2013.

“Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy: Strategic Hyperlink Formation in Content Networks”, Chris Dellarocas, Zsolt Katona, and William Rand, Management Science, 2013.

“Understanding the Predictive Power of Computational Mechanics and Echo State Networks in Social Media” David Darmon, Jared Sylvester, Michelle Girvan and William Rand, ASE Human Journal, 2013.

“How do Twitter Conversations Differ based on Geography, Time, and Subject? A Framework and Analysis of Topical Conversations in Microblogging.” Victoria Lai and William Rand, ASE Human Journal, 2013.

“Agent-Based Modeling in Marketing: Guidelines for Rigor”, William Rand and Roland Rust, International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2011.

“The Problem with Zoning: Nonlinear Effects of Interactions between Location Preferences and Externalities on Land Use and Utility” Moira L. Zellner, Rick L. Riolo, William Rand, Daniel G. Brown, and Scott E. Page, Environment and Planning B, 2010, 37, pp. 408-428.

“The Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions and Classic Dynamic Problems” Abir Alharbi and William Rand, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (IJCIA), 2010, 9(1): 33-48.

“Design Guidelines for Agent Based Model Visualization” Daniel Kornhauser, Uri Wilensky, and William Rand, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2009, 12(2), http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/1.html.

“The Emergence of Zoning Policy Games in Exurban Jurisdictions: Informing Collective Action Theory" Moira L. Zellner, Scott E. Page, William Rand, Daniel G. Brown, Derek T. Robinson, Joan Nassauer, and Bobbi Low, Land Use Policy, April 2009, 26(2): 356-67.

“Reciprocity Between the Cerebellum and the Cerebral Cortex: Nonlinear Dynamics in Microscopic Modules” Jun Wang, Gregory Dam, Sule Yildirim, William Rand, Uri Wilensky and James C. Houk, Complexity, 2008, 14(2): 29-45 (cover article).

“Exurbia from the Bottom-Up: Confronting Empirical Challenges to Characterizing a Complex System" Daniel G. Brown, Derek T. Robinson, Li An, Joan I. Nassauer, Moira Zellner, William Rand, Rick Riolo, Scott E. Page, Bobbi Low, and Zhifang Wang Geoforum, 2008, 39(2):805-818.

“Making Models Match: Replicating an Agent-Based Model” Uri Wilensky and William Rand, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2007, 10(4) http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/4/2.html

"Spatial Process and Data Models: Toward Integration of Agent-Based Models and GIS", Brown, D.G., North, M., Robinson, D., Riolo, R., Rand, W., Journal of Geographical Systems Special Issue on Space-Time Information Systems (Springer-Verlag), 2005, 7(1): 25-47.

“Path Dependence and the Validation of Agent-Based Spatial Models of Land Use”, D. G. Brown, S. E. Page, R. Riolo, M. Zellner, W. Rand, International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS) Special Issue on Land Use Dynamics (Taylor & Francis), 2005, 19(2): 153-174.

“Agent Based and Analytical Modelling to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Greenbelts”, Daniel G. Brown, Scott E. Page, Rick Riolo, and William Rand, Journal of Ecosystem Modelling and Software (Elsevier), December 2004, v19n12, p1065-1164.

“Markov Models of Literary Style for Authorship Identification”, William Rand, Fluctuations and Noise Letters (World Scientific), December 2002, v2n4, p299-305.

JOURNAL PAPERS UNDER REVIEW (4) “Effect of Government Policies on Alternative Fuel Vehicle Choice: An Integrated Approach”, Rosanna

Garcia, William Rand, Bruce Clark and Sonja Gensler, under 3rd round revise and resubmit at Journal of Marketing Research

“Building the B[r]and: Using Social Media to Drive Customer Engagement and Sales”, Yogesh Joshi, Liye Ma, William Rand, and Louiqa Raschid, revise and resubmit at Journal of Marketing Research.

“A Complexity Model for Project Team Selection”, Shu-Chien Hsu, Kai-Wei Weng, William Rand, and Qingbin Cui, conditional accept at Journal of Management in Engineering.

“Brand Buzz in the Echoverse", Kelly Hewett, William Rand, Roland Rust, and Harald van Heerde, under first round at Journal of Marketing.

JOURNAL PAPERS IN PROGRESS (7) "Influence in Microblogs: Impact of User Behavior on Diffusion and Engagement", Prem Swaroop,

Yogesh Joshi, William Rand and Louiqa Raschid, being revised for resubmission. “Catch a Tiger by His Toe: A Linear Programming Method for Solving Large Scale Discrete Choice

Problems”, David Anderson, Anna Devlin, and William Rand, being revised for submission. “Pure Versus Hybrid Strategies: Exploring the Limits of Adaptability Using an Agent-Based Model”,

Anand Gopal, Balaji Koka, and William Rand, being revised for submission. “Predicting the Charts: Using Big Data from Social Media to Forecast Market Potential” Derek

Monner, William Rand, and Yogesh Joshi, being revised for INFORMS Journal of Computing. “Mapping Products to Networked Communication: Impact of User Activities in Content Communities

on Product Sales” Hyoryung Nam, PK Kannan and William Rand, manuscript in preparation for Marketing Science

“The Firm on Twitter: The Financial Market and Social Media User Reactions to Firm Social Media Participation” John Healey and William Rand, manuscript in preparation for Journal of Marketing Research.

“Simulating macro-level effects from micro-level observations”, Ned Smith and William Rand, manuscript in preparation for Organizational Science.

GRANTS (19) University of Maryland, Advance Seed Grant, “Making the Costs of Data Sharing More Salient”, PI:

Michelle Mazurek, co-PIs: Jennifer Golbeck and William Rand, $20,000 Army Research Lab, STTR, “Decision Analytic Visualization of and Interaction with Extreme Data”,

2013-2014, Direct Funding: $33,000 (Total: $100,000; subcontract to Perceptronics) PI: William Rand

DARPA, STTR, “Heterogeneous Analysis of Group Interactions and Dynamics: Phase II”, 2013-2015, Direct Funding: $330,000 (Total: $1,000,000; subcontract to Perceptronics), PI: William Rand, co-PI: Michelle Girvan

Robert H. Smith School, Summer Research Award, “Diffusion and Ranking in Social Media”, Summer 2013, $4,000, PI: William Rand, co-PIs: Yogesh Joshi and Louiqa Raschid

DARPA, STTR, “Heterogeneous Analysis of Group Interactions and Dynamics: Phase I”, 2013, Direct Funding: $33,000 (Total: $100,000; subcontract to Perceptronics), PI: William Rand, co-PI: Michelle Girvan

National Science Foundation, “Research Experience for Undergraduates: Diffusion and Ranking in Social Media”, 2013, $16,000, PI: William Rand, co-PIs: Yogesh Joshi and Louiqa Raschid

Northrop Grumman, Memorandum of Understanding, “Competitive Social Media Diffusion”, 2012, $20,000, PI: Michelle Girvan, co-PI: William Rand

DARPA, Young Faculty Award, “Intelligent Interfaces for Social Media: Monitoring, Modeling, and Engaging”, 2012-2014, $299,506, PI: William Rand

Robert H. Smith School, Summer Research Award, “Diffusion and Ranking in Social Media and ABM of Traveler / Driver Behavior”, Summer 2012, $5,000, PI: William Rand, co-PIs: Yogesh Joshi and Louiqa Raschid

National Science Foundation, “Research Experience for Undergraduates: Diffusion and Ranking in Social Media”, 2012, $24,000, PI: William Rand, co-PIs: Yogesh Joshi and Louiqa Raschid

Marketing Science Institute, “Building the B[r]and: Using Social Media to Drive Customer Engagement and Sales”, 2011-2012, $11,000

Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Exploratory Advanced Research Program, “Agent-Based Approach for Integrated Traveler and Driver Behavior Modeling”, 2011-2013, Direct Funding: $25,000 (Total: $654,869)

Robert H. Smith School, Summer Research Award, “Diffusion and Ranking in Social Media”, Summer 2011, $4,000

National Science Foundation, “Research Experience for Undergraduates: Diffusion and Ranking in Social Media”, 2011, $24,000, PI: William Rand, co-PIs: Yogesh Joshi and Louiqa Raschid

National Science Foundation, “Diffusion and Ranking in Social Media: A Computational Examination of the Role of Influence and Authority”, 2010-2014, $488,840

NET Institute, Summer Research Award, “Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy”, Summer 2010, $3,000

Robert H. Smith School, Summer Research Award, “Merging Agent-Based and Functional Models for Complex Markets: The Case of Online Auctions”, Summer 2010, $6,750

Google and WPP, Marketing Research Award, “Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy: An Analytical and Empirical Examination of the Future of Content”, Google and WPP, 2010, $80,000

Rackham Graduate School, Interdisciplinary Workshop Grant, “Complex Systems Advanced Academic Workshop (CSAAW)”, University of Michigan, 2003, 2004 and 2005, $5,000 / year

PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS (36) “Pure Versus Hybrid Strategies: On Exploring the Limits of Adaptability”, Anand Gopal, Balaji Koka,

and William Rand, World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS), 2014, November 4-7, 2014, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

“Switching Behavior in Online Auctions: Empirical Observations and Predictive Implications” Wei Guo, William Rand and Wolfgang Jank. Winter Simulation Conference. December, 2013, Washington, DC.

“Predictability of User Behavior in Social Media: Bottom-Up v. Top-Down Modeling” David Darmon, Jared Sylvester, Michelle Girvan and William Rand. 2013 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing. Washington, DC.

“Does Love Change on Twitter? The Dynamics of Topical Conversations in Microblogging.” Victoria Lai and William Rand. 2013 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing. Washington, DC.

“An Agent-Based Model of Urgent Diffusion in a Crisis” Jeffrey Herrmann, William Rand, Brandon Schein and Neza Vodopivec, Computational Social Science Society of Americas Annual Meeting, August 22nd-25th, 2013, Santa Fe, NM.

“When Does Simulated Data Match Real Data? Comparing Model Calibration Functions using Genetic Algorithms” Forrest Stonedahl and William Rand, World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS), September 4-7, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan.

“Making Recommendations in a Microblog to Improve the Impact of a Focal User. “ Shanchan Wu, Leanna Gong, William Rand, Louiqa Raschid. 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), 2012.

“Comparing Social Tags to Microblogs.” Victoria Lai, Christopher Rajashekar and William Rand. 2nd International Modeling Social Media Workshop 2011, part of IEEE International Conference on Social Computing 2011.

“Recommendations in Social Media for Brand Monitoring.” Shanchan Wu, William Rand and Louiqa Raschid. ACM Recommender Systems 2011.

“Predicting author blog channels with high value future posts for monitoring.“ Shanchan Wu, Tamer Elsayed, William Rand and Louiqa Raschid. Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2011.

“Differential Adaptive Diffusion: Understanding Diversity and Learning whom to Trust in Viral Marketing”, Hossam Sharara, William Rand and Lise Getoor, International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), July 17-21, 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

“Estimating Functional Agent-Based Models: An Application to Bid Sharing in Online Markets”, Wei Guo, Wolfgang Jank and William Rand, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 12-16, 2011, Dublin, Ireland.

“Evolving Viral Marketing Strategies” Forrest Stonedahl, William Rand and Uri Wilensky, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 7-11, 2010, Portland, OR, USA.

“Participatory Simulation as a Tool for Agent-Based Simulation” Matthew Berland and William Rand, (2009) International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), January 19-21, Porto, Portugal.

"CrossNet: A Framework for Crossover with Network-based Chromosomal Representations " Forrest Stonedahl, William Rand, and Uri Wilensky (2008) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 12-16, Atlanta, GA, USA.

“Multi-Agent Learning with a Distributed Genetic Algorithm” Forrest Stonedahl, William Rand and Uri Wilensky (2008) Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems (AAMAS) ALAMAS+ALAg Workshop, May 12-16, 2008, Estoril, Portugal.

“The El Farol Bar Problem and Computational Effort: Why People Fail to Use Bars Efficiently”, William Rand and Forrest Sondahl (2007) Agent 2007, November 15-17, Evanston, IL, USA.

“Examining Group Behavior and Collaboration using ABM and Robots”, Paulo Blikstein, William Rand, and Uri Wilensky (2007) Agent 2007, November 15-17, Evanston, IL, USA.

“Visualization Tools for Agent-Based Modeling in NetLogo”, Daniel Kornhauser, William Rand, and Uri Wilensky (2007) Agent 2007, November 15-17, Evanston, IL, USA.

"The Defined Cliffs Variant in Dynamic Environments: A Case Study Using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions" Abir Alharbi, William Rand, and Rick Riolo (2007) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 7-11, London, UK.

“Full Spectrum Modeling: From Simplicity to Elaboration and Realism in Urban Pattern Formation” William Rand and Uri Wilensky (2007) North American Association of Computational Social and Organization Sciences (NAACSOS), June 6-9, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

"Schemata Analysis, Genetic Algorithms and Dynamic Environments: A Case Study Using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions", Abir Alharbi, William Rand, and Rick Riolo (2007) Evolution in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoStoc), Valencia, Spain. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: EvoWorkshops 2007. v4448, p657-667.

"Machine Learning Meets Agent-Based Modeling: When Not to Go to a Bar", William Rand (2006) Agent 2006, September 21-23, Chicago, IL, USA.

“Verification and Validation through Replication: A Case Study Using Axelrod and Hammond's Ethnocentrism Model" William Rand and Uri Wilensky (2006) North American Association Computational Social and Organization Sciences (NAACSOS), June 21-23, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, USA.

"The Effect of Crossover on the Behavior of the GA in Dynamic Environments: A Case Study using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions" William Rand, Rick Riolo, and John Holland (2006) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Seattle, WA, USA. Proceedings of GECCO 2006: 1289-1296.

"The Effect of Building Block Construction on the Behavior of the GA in Dynamic Environments: A Case Study Using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions" William Rand and Rick Riolo (2006) Evolution in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoStoc), Budapest, Hungary. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: EvoWorkshops 2006. v3907, p776-87.

“Toward a Graphical ABM Toolkit with GIS Integration”, William Rand, Daniel G. Brown, Rick Riolo and Derek Robinson, Agent 2005, October 13-15, Chicago, IL, USA.

“The Problem with a Self-Adaptive Mutation Rate in Some Environments: A Case Study using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions”, William Rand and Rick Riolo, Published in Proceedings of GECCO 2005.

“Measurements for Understanding the Behavior of the Genetic Algorithm in Dynamic Environments: A Case Study using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions”, William Rand and Rick Riolo, Published in Workshop Proceedings of GECCO 2005.

"Can Statistical Methods on Land-Use Change Patterns Calibrate Agent-Based Models?" Li An, Daniel G. Brown, William Rand, and Scott E. Page (2005) Geocomputation, August 1-3, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

“Shaky Ladders, Hyperplane-Defined Functions and Genetic Algorithms: Systematic Controlled Observation in Dynamic Environments”, William Rand and Rick Riolo, Published in Proceedings of EvoStoc 2005.

“The Interaction between Zoning Regulations and Residential Preferences as a Driver of Urban Form”, M. L. Zellner, W. Rand, R. Riolo, S. E. Page, D. G. Brown, and L. E. Fernandez, Published in Proceedings of 2003 UTEP Symposium (University of Michigan Taubman College).

“Statistical Validation of Spatial Patterns in Agent-Based Models”, William Rand, Daniel G. Brown, Scott E. Page, Rick Riolo, Luis E. Fernandez, and Moira Zellner (2003) Published in Proceedings of Agent-Based Simulation (ABS) (SCS European Publishing House).

“The Complex Interaction of Agents and Environments: An Example In Urban Sprawl”, William Rand, Moira Zellner, Scott E. Page, Rick Riolo, Daniel G. Brown, Luis Fernandez, Agent 2002, Chicago, IL, USA.

“Modeling the Effects of Greenbelts at the Urban-Rural Fringe”, Daniel G. Brown, Scott E. Page, Rick Riolo, William Rand, Published in Proceedings of International Environmental Modelling and Software Society 2002 (iEMSs).

“MusArt: Music Retrieval via Aural Queries”, William P. Birmingham, Roger B. Dannenberg, Gregory H. Wakefield, Mark Bartsch, David Bykowski, Dominic Mazzoni, Colin Meek, Maureen Mellody, William Rand, Published in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), October 2001.

“GP+Echo+Subsumption=Improved Problem Solving”, W.F. Punch and W.M. Rand, Published in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) (Morgan Kaufmann), July 2000.

PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE POSTERS (9) “Space, Time, and Hurricanes: Investigating the Spatiotemporal Relationship Among Social Media Use,

Donations, and Disasters”, Jared Sylvester, John Healey, Chen Wang and William Rand, 2014, ASE SocialCom International Conference on Social Computing, Stanford, CA.

“Automatic Crowdsourcing-Based Classification of Marketing Messaging on Twitter.” Radu Machedon, William Rand and Yogesh Joshi 2013 ASE/IEEE SocialCom International Conference on Social Computing. Washington, DC.

“When Does Simulated Data Match Real Data?: An Exploration of Calibration Functions for an Agent-Based Model using Evolutionary Computation”, Forrest Stonedahl, David Anderson and William Rand ,Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 12-16, 2011, Dublin, Ireland.

“Future Link Prediction in the Blogosphere for Reccomendation”, Shanchan Wu, William Rand and Louiqa Raschid, International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), July 17-21, 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

“The Future of Content: A Strategic Network Formation Perspective on New Business Model for News” Chris Dellarocas and William Rand (2009) Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN), September 25-26, 2009.

“Identifying Network Properties from Aggregate Data” William Rand and Michael Trusov (2009) Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN), September 25-26, 2009.

"Coevolution of Predators and Prey in a Spatial Model: An Exploration of the Red Queen Effect" Jules Ottino-Loffler, William Rand, and Uri Wilensky (2007) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 7-11, London, UK.

"Evolution of Rules for Non-Uniform Cellular Automata using a Simple Genetic Algorithm: An Investigation into Diversity and Computation", Forrest Sondahl and William Rand (2007) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 7-11, London, UK.

“Statistical Analysis for Music Information Retrieval”, William Rand and William Birmingham, Published in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), October 2001

PEER-REVIEWED TECHNICAL DEMOS (3)

“GoGoBot: Group Collaboration, Multi-Agent Modeling, and Robots”, William Rand, Paulo Blikstein, and Uri Wilensky (2008) Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Estoril, Portugal. Proceedings of AAMAS 2008.

"Just a Cog in the Machine: Participatory Robotics as a Powerful Tool for Understanding Collaborative Learning", Paulo Blikstein, William Rand, and Uri Wilensky (2007) Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ, USA.

"Participatory, Embodied, Multi-Agent Simulation", Paulo Blikstein, Bill Rand and Uri Wilensky (2006) Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. Proceedings of AAMAS 2006: 1457-1458.

BOOKS (1) “Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling: Modeling natural, engineered, and social complex systems

with NetLogo”, Uri Wilensky and William Rand, 2015, M.I.T. Press. BOOK CHAPTERS (3) “Complex Systems: Concepts, Literature, Possibilities, and Limitations”, William Rand, 2015 in

Modeling Complex Systems for Public Policies, Bernardo Alves Furtado, ed. “The Future of ABM in Marketing”, William Rand, 2013 in The Routledge Companion to the Future of

Marketing, Luiz Moutinho, Enrique Bigne, Ajay K. Manrai, eds. “Business Applications and Research Questions Using Spatial Agent-Based Models”, William Rand,

2011 in Agent-Based Models for Geographical Systems, A. J. Heppenstall, A. T. Crooks, L. M. See, M. Batty, eds.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, POSTERS, ABSTRACTS AND DEMOS “Investigating the Relationship among Twitter and Donations.” William Rand, Shawn Mankad, and

Chen Wang, 2014 Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Auckland, New Zealand.

“Predicting the Charts: Using Big Data from Social Media to Forecast Market Potential.” Derek Monner, Yogesh Joshi and William Rand. 2014 Summer AMA Educators Conference, San Francisco, CA.

“The Firm on Twitter: The Financial Market and Social Media User Reactions to Firm Social Media Participation”, John Healey and William Rand, 2014 Marketing Science Conference, Atlanta, GA.

“Big Network Analysis for Influence Identification through Sampling of Network Graphs”, Shankar Prawesh, Matthew Henricks, and William Rand, 2014 Marketing Science Conference, Atlanta, GA.

“Will My Followers Tweet? Predicting Twitter Engagement using Machine Learning”, David Darmon, Jared Sylvester, Michelle Girvan, and William Rand, European Marketing Academy Conference (EMAC), 2014, Valencia, Spain.

“An Analysis of Conversations on Twitter”, Shankar Prawesh, Peratham Wiriyathammabhum, William Rand, and Louiqa Rschid, Winter Conference on Business Intelligence (WCBI), 2014, Snowbird, UT.

“Keeping Up with the (Pre-Teen) Joneses: The Effect of Friendship on Freemium Conversion”, Jared Sylvester and William Rand, Winter Conference on Business Intelligence (WCBI), 2014, Snowbird, UT.

“Big Network Analysis for Influence Identification through Sampling of Network Graphs”, Shankar Prawesh, Matthew Henricks, and William Rand, Winter Conference on Business Intelligence (WCBI), 2014, Snowbird, UT.

“An Exploration into Spectrum Policy Debates on Social Media” Michael Janson and William Rand, 2013 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Washington, DC.

“Modeling Endogeneity in the Formation of Trust Relationships Online.” Hossam Sharara, William Rand and Lise Getoor. Joint Statistics Meeting, 2013, Montreal, QC.

“Predicting the Charts: Using Big Data from Social Media to Forecast Market Potential.” Derek Monner, Yogesh Joshi and William Rand. 2013 Marketing Science Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.

“Retweets, Mentions and Follows: A User Behavior Model”, Prem Swaroop, Yogesh Joshi, William Rand and Louiqa Raschid, Winter Conference on Business Intelligence, Snowbird, Utah, February 28-March 2, 2013.

"Information Diffusion in a Crisis" Ardechir Auzolle, Anshul Snood, Jeffrey Herrmann and William Rand, Complexity in Business Conference, November 8-9, 2012, Washingon, DC.

“Predicting User Behavior in Social Media” Prem Swaroop, Shanchan Wu, Leanna Gong, Yogesh Joshi, William Rand, and Louiqa Raschid, Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research, June 28-29, 2012, Montreal, Canada.

“Catch a Tiger by his Toe: A Linear Programming Approach to Large Scale Discrete Choice Problems” David Anderson, Anna Develin and William Rand, Marketing Science, Bsoton, MA, June 7-9, 2012.

“Differential Adaptive Diffusion: Understanding Diversity and Learning Whom to Trust in Viral Marketing” Hossam Sharara, William Rand and Lise Getoor, Marketing Science, Bsoton, MA, June 7-9, 2012.

“Differential Adaptive Diffusion: Understanding Diversity and Learning Whom to Trust in Viral Marketing” Hossam Sharara, William Rand and Lise Getoor, Winter Conference on Business Intelligence, Snowbird, Utah, March 1-3, 2012.

“News, Networks and Users: How Network Properties affect Online News Consumption” David Anderson, Chris Dellarocas, Zsolt Katona, William Rand and Forrest Stonedahl, INFORMS, 2011, Charlotte, NC, November 13-16, 2011.

“On Dynamic Resource Allocation in IT Outsourcing Projects”, Anand Gopal, Balaji Koka, and William Rand, INFORMS, 2011, Charlotte, NC, November 13-16, 2011.

“News, Networks and Users: How Network Properties affect Online News Consumption” David Anderson, Chris Dellarocas, Zsolt Katona, William Rand and Forrest Stonedahl, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) at INFORMS, 2011, Charlotte, NC, November 12-13, 2011.

“On Dynamic Resource Allocation in IT Outsourcing Project: Integrating Managerial Attention, Categorization and Interruptions in an Agent-Based Model”, Anand Gopal, Balaji Koka and William Rand, Frontiers in Service, June 30-July 3, 2011, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

“Evolving Viral Marketing Strategies”, William Rand, Forrest Stonedahl and Uri Wilensky, Marketing Science, June 9-12, 2011, Rice University, Houston, TX.

“Evolving Viral Marketing Strategies”, William Rand, Forrest Stonedahl and Uri Wilensky, Advanced Research Techniques Forum, June 5-8, 2011, Desert Springs, CA.

“Creation, Curation, Analysis and Visualization of a Dataset of Social Media Tags”, Vicky Lai and William Rand, Undergraduate Research Day, April 27, 2011, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

“Consumer Behavior in Content Networks: An Examination of Online News”, David Anderson, Chris Dellarocas, Zsolt Katona and William Rand, Winter Conference on Business Intelligence, March 10-12, 2011, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

“Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy: Strategic Hyperlink Formation in Content Networks”, Chris Dellarocas, Zsolt Katona, and William Rand, Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), December 11-12, 2010, St. Louis, MO.

“On Dynamic Resource Allocation in IT Outsourcing Project: Integrating Managerial Attention, Categorization and Interruptions in an Agent-Based Model”, Anand Gopal, Balaji Koka, and William Rand, Complexity in Business Conference, November 12, 2010, University of Maryland, Washington, DC.

“Understanding Diffusion in Digital Social Media”, William Rand, Yogesh Joshi, Louiqa Raschid and Shanchan Wu, Complexity in Business Conference, November 12, 2010, University of Maryland, Washington, DC.

“Searching for Networks in Aggregate Data”, Michael Trusov and William Rand, Computational Social Science Society (CSSS) 2010, November 5-6, 2010, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

“Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy: Strategic Hyperlink Formation in Content Networks”, Chris Dellarocas, Zsolt Katona, and William Rand, Workshop on Media Economics and Public Policy, October 15-16, 2010, Hunter College, New York City, NY.

“Functional Data Analysis and Agent-Based Modeling” Wolfgang Jank, William Rand, and Michael Trusov (2010) Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), July 31-August 5, Vancouver, Canada.

“Using Agent-Based Models and Functional Data Analysis to Understand Auction Behavior” Wolfgang Jank, William Rand, and Wei Guo (2010) Marketing Science, June 17-19, Cologne, Germany.

“Analyzing Servicescapes using Agent-Based Modeling” John Healey and William Rand (2010) Frontiers in Service, June 10-13, Karlstad, Sweden.

“Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy: A Strategic Network Formation Perspective on the Future of Content” Chris Dellarocas, Zsolt Katona, and William Rand (2010) Winter Conference on Business Intelligence, March 11-13, Salt Lake City, UT.

“Towards a Strategic Theory of Content and Link Formation in Web-based Content Networks” Chris Dellarocas and William Rand (2009) Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), October 11-14, San Diego, CA.

“Simulating the Formation of Parliamentary Decision Teams, or How the Bundestag is like a Musical” William Rand and Klaus Liepelt (2009) Sunbelt, International Network For Social Network Analysis, March 10-March 15, San Diego, CA.

“Content Networks” Chris Dellarocas and William Rand (2009) Marketing Science, June 4-6, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

“Identifying Network Properties from Aggregate Data” Michael Trusov and William Rand (2009) Marketing Science, June 4-6, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

“Rigorous Agent-Based Modeling in Marketing” William Rand and Roland Rust (2009) Marketing Science, June 4-6, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

“Social Network Structure and the Diffusion of Innovation”, William Rand (2009) Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference, February 27-March 1, New York City, NY, USA.

“Adaptive Agents and the Diffusion of Innovation across Diverse Systems”, William Rand (2008) Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Complexity and Business Analytics Conference, October 10, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, USA.

“A Framework for Combining Agent-Based Simulation and Evolutionary Computation”, William Rand (2007) Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (ECoMASS) at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2007, July 7, London, UK.

"Multi-agent Communication Disorders: Dynamic Breeding Networks in Genetic Algorithms", Forrest Sondahl and William Rand (2007) Swarmfest 2007, July 12-14, Chicago, IL, USA.

"Widgets, Planets, and Demons: the Case for the Integration of Human, Embedded, and Virtual Agents via Mediation", William Rand, Paulo Blikstein, and Uri Wilensky (2006) Swarmfest 2006, South Bend, IN, USA.

"NetLogo 3.1: Low Threshold, No Ceiling", William Rand and Uri Wilensky (2006) North American Association Computational Social and Organizational Systems (NAACSOS) 2006, South Bend, IN, USA.

“Relationship between Agent-Based Models and Geographic Information Systems: An Illustrated Catalog”, William Rand, Daniel G. Brown, Michael North, Rick Riolo, Derek T. Robinson (2004) Swarmfest, May 10, Ann Arbor, USA.

“The Effects of Heterogeneous Development Density Regulations on Exurban Development: An Agent-Based Model of Developer and Homebuyer Decision-Making”, Moira Zellner, William Rand, Daniel G. Brown, Joan Nassauer, Bobbi Low, Li An, Rick Riolo, Scott E. Page, Derek Robinson (2004), Swarmfest, May 10, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

“What Makes A City Look Like A City: Validation of Agent-Based Models Through Emergent Spatial Patterns”, William Rand (2003) Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference on Mathematics for Industry, October 14, Toronto, ON, Canada.

“SOME: An Agent-Based Model of Suburban Sprawl”, William Rand, Daniel G. Brown, Scott E. Page, Rick Riolo, Moira Zellner, Luis Fernandez (2003) Swarmfest, April 14, Notre Dame, IN, USA.

TECHNICAL REPORTS “Statistical Analysis in Music Information Retrieval”, William Rand and William Birmingham,

Technical Report from University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001, CSE-TR-444-01.

SELECTED INVITED TALKS “Using Big Data and Agent-Based Modeling to Understand Social Media Diffusion”, Mitre, 3/25/2015,

McLean, VA. “Investigating the Relationship between Twitter and Donations”, Erasmus School of Management,

Technology and Operations Management Department, 3/17/2015, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. “Using Big Data and Agent-Based Modeling to Understand Social Media Diffusion”, Erasmus School

of Management, Marketing Department, 3/16/2015, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. “Data Science and Marketing”, Lowes, 2/16/2015, Charlotte, NC. “Complex Systems and Data Science”, Northrup-Grumman Technical Presentation, University of

Maryland, 12/11/2014, College Park, MD. “Complex Systems and the Diffusion of Information”, Faculty Research Overview Series, University of

Maryland’s Marketing Department, 12/12/2014, College Park, MD. “Urgent Diffusion in Social Media”, Applied Dynamics Seminar, Physics Department, University of

Maryland, College Park, MD, 11/20/2014. “Analyzing and Capitalizing on Big Data”, co-presentation with Teradata and Cerulium, Teradata

Partners Meeting, October, 2014, Nashville, TN. “Corporate Reputation in the Twitterverse” and “Surviving a Brand Harm Crisis in a Social Media

World”, Center for Corporate Reputation Annual Symposium, 9/4/2014, Oxford, UK. “Complex Systems: concepts, literature, possibilities and limitations”, IPEA Research Program on

Modeling Complex Systems for Public Policies, 9/1/2014, Brasilia, Brazil. “Short Course on Complexity and Public Policy”, American Political Science Association, 8/27/2014,

Washington, DC. “Bias in Social Media”, SESYNC Workshop on Social Media and the Environment, July 28, 2014,

Annapolis, MD. “The Complex Network of Social Media”, Data Science and Service Research, Tohoku University, July

18th, 2014, Sendai, Japan.

“Will My Followers Tweet? Predicting Twitter Engagement using Machine Learning”, Fox Global Center for Big Data in Mobile Analytics, Temple University, 6/2014.

“Trust, Influence and Urgent Diffusion on Social Media”, AAAI Fall Symposium on Social Networks and Social Contagion, November 15th, 2013, Arlington, VA.

“Complexity in Business: Big Data, Social Media, and Predictive Analytics”, Computer Science Corporate Connection, November 1st, 2013, College Park, MD.

“Digital Marketing”, Professional Services Leadership Institute, 2013, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

“From Data Science Exploration to the Operationalization of Predictive Analytics”, co-presentation with Chris Taylor (American Red Cross), Teradata Partners Meeting, October, 2013, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.

“Agent-Based Modeling in Different Disciplines”, October 2nd, 2013, Agent-Based Modeling and Transportation Conference, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.

“Personal Branding with Social Media”, September 25th, 2013, Smith Student Association, Universities at Shady Grove, Shady Grove, MD.

“Agent-Based Modeling: An Introduction”, September 20th, 2013, Project Management Center for Excellence, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

“Trust and Influence in Social Media”, September 9th, 2013, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Silver Spring, MD.

“Trust, Influence, and Urgent Diffusion in Social Media", September 9th, 2013, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.

“Predictive Analytics from Social Media”, Teradata Aster, August 20th, 2013, Mountain View, CA. “Predictive Analytics from Social Media”, LinkedIn, August 19th, 2013, Mountain View, CA. “Social Analytics and Online Donations”, Digital Marketing Analytics Roundtable, August 1st, 2013,

Washington, DC. “Trust and Influence in the Complex Network of Social Media”, Big Analytics Roadshow, August 16th,

2013, Atlanta, GA. “When Does Simulated Data match Real Data?”, European Social Simulation Association Summer

School, July 15th, 2013, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany. “Thoughts on Social Observatories from a Complex Systems Perspective”, NSF Social Observatories

Meeting, May 8th, 2013, College Park, MD. “Trust in Social Media”, DARPA Technical Exchange Meeting on Trust. May 6th, 2013, Arlington, VA. “Understanding Individual Behavior in Social Media using a Complex Systems Approach”, Socio-

Enviornmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), March 13th, 2013, Annapolis, MD. “Analyzing the Complex Network of Social Media”, 3rd Annual Robert H. Smith-IBM Business

Analytics Workshop, April 18th, 2013, College Park, MD. “Modeling Urgent Information Diffusion by Analyzing Tweets”, Rutgers University Discrete

Mathemetics and Advanced Computer Studies, March 25th, 2013, NJ. “The Complex Network of Social Media”, Laboratory for Telecommunication Sciences, March 14th,

2013, College Park, MD. “Teaching the What-For and How-To of ABM”, COMSES meeting on Teaching Agent-Based

Modeling, February 28th, 2013, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. “Modeling the Complex Network of Social Media”, Representing Complexity: Intersections of Art and

Science, February 27th, 2013, College Park, MD. “Trust and Influence in Social Media”, Applied and Computational Math Seminar, George Mason

University, February 22, 2013, Fairfax, VA. “The Complex Network of Social Media”, Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical

Modeling, University of Maryland, January 23, 2013, College Park, MD.

“Understanding Individual Behavior on Social Media Using a Complexity Perspective”, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, November 14, 2012, Evanston, IL.

“Big Data and the Marketing Scientist from Theory to Day-to-Day Reality”, Teradata Partners, October 21, 2012, Washington, DC.

“Predicting User Behavior in Social Media”, Computer Science Department, University of Delaware, October 10, 2012, Newark, DE.

“Trust and Influence in the Complex Network of Social Media”, Department of Psychology, Social, Decision and Organizational Science (SDOS) Colloquium, September 24, 2012, College Park, MD.

“Social Software & Analytics in Business”, August 9, 2012, Teradata Webcast with Teradata and Mzinga

“Understand Social Media & the Impact on Today’s Student”, July 19, 2012, Employer Forum, Smith School of Business, College Park, MD

“Social Networking Discussion”, June 1, 2012, University of Maryland Board of Trustees, College Park, MD

“Trust and Influence in the Complex Network of Social Media”, May 22, 2012, Big Analytics, Boston, MA

“Trust and Influence: Who Follows Whom?”, May 4, 2012, Thought Leadership @ Smith, Baltimore, MD

“Trust and Influence in the Complex Network of Social Media”, April 30, 2012, Krasnow Institute, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

“Authority, Trust and Influence: The Complex Network of Social Media”, February 15, 2012, Marketing Department, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.

“The Latest Research on How to Use Social Media to Increase Sales”, February 2, 2012, Baltimore CEO Club, Baltimore, MD.

“ABM in Marketing and Differential Adaptive Diffusion: Understanding Diversity and Learning whom to Trust in Viral Marketing”, January 31, 2012, Marketing Department, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

“Agent-Based Modeling in Marketing: Guidelines for Rigor”, January 26, 2012, Complex Systems Advanced Academic Workshop, University of Michigan.

“Authority, Trust and Influence: The Complex Network of Social Media”, January 24, 2012, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan.

“Authority, Trust and Influence: The Complex Network of Social Media”, December 7, 2011, Computational Linguistics and Information Processing, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, College Park, MD.

“Authority, Trust and Influence: The Complex Network of Social Media”, December 2, 2011, Marketing Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

“Differential Adaptive Diffusion: Understanding Diversity and Learning whom to Trust in Viral Marketing”, November 18, 2011, Marketing Department, Smeal School of Business, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.

“Authority, Trust and Influence: The Complex Network of Social Media”, October 5, 2011, TTI / Vanguard conference on Complex Systems, Tysons Corner, VA.

“Differential Adaptive Diffusion: Understanding Diversity and Learning whom to Trust in Viral Marketing”, September 9, 2011, Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

“Understanding the Diffusion of Information on Social Media”, Optimal Solutions Group, June 1, 2011, College Park, MD.

“Understanding the Diffusion of Information on Social Media”, ThinkVine, May 4, 2011, Cincinatti, OH.

“Understanding the Diffusion of Information using Agents and Networks”, Robert H. Johnson Health and Society Fellows Program, University of Pennsylvania, February 24, 2011, Philadelphia, PA.

“Building Your Personal Brand using Social Media”, University of Maryland Campus Recreation Services, February 22, 2011, College Park, MD.

“Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy”, November 19, 2010, Networks, Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications Institute Fall Conference, New York City, NY.

“Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy”, November 9, 2010, Google Marketing Research Awards, New York City, NY.

“Diffusion of Information in Social Media” September 9, 2010, University of Maryland, Applied Dynamics Seminar, College Park, MD.

“An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling Using NetLogo” May 26, 2010, Ohio State University, Innovation Group on Complexity in Human, Natural, and Engineered Systems, Columbus, OH.

“Understanding the Diffusion of Information Using Agent-Based Modeling and Network Science” May 4, 2010, US Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, McLean, VA.

“Inferring Network Properties from Aggregate Diffusion Data” February 25, 2010, Statistics Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

“A Complex Systems Approach to the Diffusion of Information” November 9, 2009, Villanova School of Business, Philadelphia, PA.

“Agent-Based Modeling and the Diffusion of Information” August 25th, 2009, Department of Homeland Security’s Invitational Workshop on Biologically-Inspired Social Modeling, Arlington, VA.

Series of Talk on Agent-Based Modeling and Social Network Applications, July 13-July 31, 2009, Mittweida University (Mittweida, Germany) and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Cologne, Germany).

“Diffusion of Innovation Across Diverse Systems” May 1, 2009, Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University.

“Agent-Based Modeling in Marketing” William Rand and Roland Rust, April 24, 2009, Inaugural Complexity in Business Conference, Center for Complexity in Business, University of Maryland.

“Diffusion of Innovation Across Diverse Systems” February 13, 2009, Biology-Inspired Computing Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland.

“Simulating the Formation of Decision Teams, or How the Legislative Process is like a Musical” August 1, 2008, Deutsche Welle-TV, Berlin, Germany.

“Adaptive Agents, Networks, and the Diffusion of Innovation” December 10, 2007, Marketing Research Seminar, Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

“From Turtles to Cities: Agent-Based Modeling and Urban Pattern Formation” August 13, 2007, Decision and Information Sciences Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA.

“Agents, Complex Systems, and the Diffusion of Innovation” August 8, 2007, ExxonMobil Exploration, Orrington Hotel, Evanston, IL, USA.

“Agents, Networks, and the Diffusion of Innovation” May 22, 2007, Gridwise Architecture Council, Rosemont Convention Center, Rosemont, IL, USA.

"Networks and Diffusion of Innovation" January 26, 2007, Complexity Action Network Virtual Network Meeting, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

"Advancing the State of the Art in Agent-Based Modeling" October 25, 2006, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) Seminar, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

"Applications of ABM to Businesses and Organizations" October 16, 2006, Complexity Action Network Virtual Network Meeting, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

"Emergence and Feedbacks: Genetic Algorithms and Agent-Based Modeling" January 31, 2005, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) Seminar, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

“Statistical Validation of Spatial Patterns in Agent-Based Models” August 29, 2003, Seminar at National Center for Computer Science and Mathematics in the Netherlands (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

“SOME: An Agent-Based Model of Suburban Sprawl” February 4, 2003, AI Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS Joint Statistics Meeting, Section on Statistics in Marketing, Program Chair, 2016, Chicago, IL. Joint Statistics Meeting, Section on Statistics in Marketing, Program Chair-Elect, 2015, Seattle, WA. “Building Capacity for 21st Century Social Sciences”, Workshop Participant, March 19-20, 2015,

Washington, DC. “6th Annual Complexity in Business Conference”, Co-chair with Roland Rust, October 30-31, 2014,

University of Maryland’s Center for Complexity in Business, Washington, DC. “Big Data: From Theory to Insights”, Moderator and Panel Organizer, August 1st, 2014, San Francisco,

CA. “Digital Marketing and Social Media Track”, Co-chair with Zsolt Katona, August, 2014, San Francisco,

CA., Summer 2014 AMA Marketing Educators’ Conference. “8th Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (ECoMASS)”, Co-chair with

Forrest Stonedahl, presented at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2014, Vancouver, Canada.

“5th Annual Complexity in Business Conference”, Co-chair with Roland Rust, November 7-8, 2013, University of Maryland’s Center for Complexity in Business, Washington, DC.

“Special Session on Multi-Armed Bandit Problems”, Chair, Joint Statistics Meeting, August, 2013, Montreal, QC.

“2nd Annual Digital Marketing Analytics Roundtable”, Co-chair with Roland Rust, August 1st, 2013, University of Maryland’s Center for Complexity in Business and Teradata, Washington, DC.

“7th Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (ECoMASS)”, Co-chair with Forrest Stonedahl, presented at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

“DARPA Workshop on Fostering the Adoption of Programming Languages”, Information Science and Technology Stud Group (ISAT), February 11th, 2013, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

“4th Annual Complexity in Business Conference”, Co-chair with Roland Rust, November 8-9, 2012, University of Maryland’s Center for Complexity in Business, Washington, DC.

“1st Annual Digital Marketing Analytics Roundtable”, Co-chair with Roland Rust, June 21st, 2012, University of Maryland’s Center for Complexity in Business and Teradata, Washington, DC.

“3rd Annual Complexity in Business Conference”, Co-chair with Roland Rust, October 14, 2011, University of Maryland’s Center for Complexity in Business, Washington, DC.

“Workshop on Knowledge Discovery, Modeling and Simulation”, Organizing Committee, August 21, 2011, San Diego, CA.

“5th Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (ECoMASS)”, Co-chair with Forrest Stonedahl, presented at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2011, Dublin, Ireland.

“2nd Annual Complexity in Business Conference”, Co-chair with Wolfgang Jank and Roland Rust, November 12, 2010, University of Maryland’s Center for Complexity in Business, Washington, DC.

“Using Simulation Experiments to Build and Test Entrepreneurship Theories: Simulation in Entrepeneurship”, Presenter, Professional Development Workshop, presented at Academy of Management (AOM), 2010, Montreal, Canada.

“Complex Systems and Marketing” Session Organizer (2010) Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), July 31-August 5, Vancouver, Canada.

“Micro Behaviors and Macro Outcomes: New Questions, Methods, and Application for Studying Complex Systems in marketing”, Co-chair with Andrew Stephen, Part of Marketing Science 2010, Cologne, Germany.

“4th Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (ECoMASS)”, Co-chair with Rick L. Riolo, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2010, Portland, Oregon.

“Modeling and Analyzing Network Data – A hands-on workshop using NetLogo, R and NodeXL”, Co-presenter with Wolfgang Jank, University of Maryland’s Center for Complexity in Business Fall Workshop, December 4, 2009, College Park, MD, USA

“Applied Agent-based Modeling in Management Research”, Presenter, Professional Development Workshop as part of the Academy of Management (AOM), 2009, Chicago, IL, USA.

“3rd Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (ECoMASS)”, Co-chair with Sevan Ficici and Rick L. Riolo, Part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2009, Montreal, Canada.

“Agent-Based Modeling in Marketing”, Co-chair with Roland Rust, Part of Marketing Science 2009, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

“Complexity in Business Conference”, Co-chair with Chris Dellarocas and Roland Rust, April 24, 2009, University of Maryland’s Center for Complexity in Business, College Park, MD.

“2nd Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (ECoMASS)”, Co-chair with Sevan Ficici and Rick L. Riolo, Part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2008, Atlanta, GA.

“1st Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (ECoMASS)”, Co-chair with Sevan Ficici, Part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2007, London, UK.

“Extending Computational Cognitive Modelling to Issues of Multi-Agent Interaction (ECM_MAI)”, Co-chair with Sule Yildirim, Part of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

TUTORIALS “An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling”, February 13-16, 2012, co-Instructor with Bernd Skiera,

PhD level Course, Marketing Department, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. “Agent-Based Modeling”, January 17-26, 2012, co-Instructor with Scott E. Page, sophomore-level

course, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

“An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling” Lead Instructor, November 18, 2011, Smeal School of Business, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.

“An Overview of ABM Applications and Techniques” Lead Instructor, February 24, 2011, Robert H. Johnson Health and Society Fellows Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

“Using NetLogo to Understand Computational Social Science” Lead Instructor, Computational Social Science Society (CSSS) 2010, November 5-6, 2010, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

“Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling” Lead Instructor, November 11-November 13, 2010, AAAI Fall Symposium on Complex Adaptive Systems 2010, Washington, DC.

“NetLogo Workshop” Lead Instructor, May 26, 2010, Complexity in Human, Natural and Engineered Systems Innovation Group, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

“Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling” Lead Instructor, November 5-November 7, 2009, AAAI Fall Symposium on Complex Adaptive Systems 2009, Washington, DC.

“Agent Based Simulation Methods: Applied” Lead Instructor, July 28-July 31, 2008, Mittweida Summer CommuniCy 2008, Hochschule Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, Mittweida, Germany.

“Model Building and Simulation: Introduction to Adaptive Structures” Lead Instructor, July 21-25, 2008, Mittweida Summer CommuniCy 2008, Hochschule Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, Mittweida, Germany.

“Hands-On Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling Using NetLogo” Lead Instructor, May 21, 2008, NICO Complexity Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

"Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling Using NetLogo" Lead Instructor, November 12-14, 2007, Agent 2007, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

“Agent Based Simulation Methods” Lead Instructor, July 16-27, 2007, Mittweida Summer CommuniCy 2007, Hochschule Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, Mittweida, Germany.

"Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling Using NetLogo" Lead Instructor, June 6, 2007, North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS) 2007, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

“Hands-On Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling” Lead Instructor, June 1, 2007, Complex Systems Approaches to Population Health Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

"Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling Using NetLogo" Lead Instructor, September 18-20, 2006, Agent 2006, Holiday Inn City Centre, Chicago, IL, USA.

"NetLogo Workshop for Texas Instruments' Educators" Assistant Instructor, July 21-28, 2006, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

"Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling Using NetLogo" Lead Instructor, June 25, 2006, Swarmfest 2006, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, USA.

"Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling Using NetLogo" Lead Instructor, June 21, 2006, North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS) 2006, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, USA.

"Modeling for Innovation: Exploring New Ideas for Innovation & Diffusion Through Agent-Based Modeling" Lead Instructor, June 29, 2006, Complexity Action Network Innovation Lab, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

"Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling Using NetLogo" Lead Instructor, October 10-12, 2005, Agent 2005, Holiday Inn City Centre, Chicago, IL, USA.

"Complex Systems Models in Social Science" Lab Instructor, Summer, 2004, University of Michigan, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

POPULAR PRESS REFERENCES Main St., March 18, 2014, “Self-Defense in an Age of Credit Card Breaches”, related coverage in

Leavenworth Times Prweb.com and Digital Journal, February 5, 2014, “Mitigating Mobile Banking Risk: Tips from UMD

Business Experts” Association of National Advertisers, Fall 2013, “Actionable Analytics: Reexaming Metrics for Better

Data-Driven Decisions” News at Smith, November 13, 2013, “Complexity in Business Conference Explores Social Media

Messaging” Smith Business, Fall, 2013, “Traditional News and the Link Economy”

Gazette.Net, October 3, 2013, “Prince George’s officials aim for fewer lines, more clicks” Forbes.com, July 25, 2013, Coverage of Digital Marketing Analytics Roundtable Innovation Insights @ Wired.com, June 20, 2013, “Big Analytics and Social Media: Insights on Data-

Driven Marketing” Merrill, May 6, 2013, “Newspapers Must Adopt Strategic Linking, Content Investment in the Digital

Age” Inside the Biz with Jill Dyche, April 25, 2013, “How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Data Scientist?” Your Money & Business, Smith Business Close-Up on Maryland Public Television, December 13, 2012,

“The Rise of E-Tail and Social Shopping” Afro.com, 11/24/2012, “Social Media Changing the Way Athletes Speak Out”, related coverage on

Southern Maryland Online The Diamondback, 9/25/2012, “Online Voting Could Emerge: University Center Has Studied Options” Smith School YouTube Channel, 9/13/2012, “Analyzing Facebook and Twitter Initiatives to Expand

Marketing Capabilities” Smith School YouTube Channel, 9/13/2012, “Social Media’s Role in the Presidential Campaign” The Diamondback, 9/10/2012, “In National Conventions, Candidates Hone In On Education” The Diamondback, 8/29/2012, “Presidential Candidates Battle It Out Over Social Media” Reuters.com, 8/22/2012, “UMD-Smith School Finance, Marketing Experts Comment on Election 2012” Information Week / BrainYard, 8/7/2012, “5 Social Skills IT Pros Must Have” Wall Street Journal / MarketWatch, 8/6/2012, “Companies need Education on the Value of Social Media

and Big Data Analytics”, related coverage in Direct Marketing News, Daily Deal Media, CMS Wire, Fourth Soruce, Help Net Security, MarketingCharts.com, Ad Operations Online, Bull Dog Reporter, The Real Time Report, Silicon Angle, CMO.com, Enterprise Innovation, Reuters.com

InformationWeek / BrainYard, 7/31/2012, “Olympic Lessons for Social Media Strategists” Teradata Magazine, Q3 2012, “Digital Destiny” Washington Post, 12/2/2011, “Facebook commerce startups get in on gift-buying season” Your Money & Business, Smith Business Close-Up on Maryland Public Television, August 18, 2011,

“Social Media in Business” Financial Times, 7/28/2011, “Professor of the Week”, “Geolocation”, “Microblog”, “Sentiment

Analysis”, “Social Media Monitoring”, “Social Tag” Baltimore Business Journal, 11/19/2010, “Bridging the App Gap” HONORS AND AWARDS Young Faculty Award, DARPA, 2012-2014 Top 15% Teaching Award, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 2011 Campus Nominee, Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2008 Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Evanston, IL, USA, 2005 to

2008 Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop in Economics Participant, Santa Fe Institute, Summer of 2003 Winter School for Complex Systems Participant, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, December 2002 Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School Program Participant, Santa Fe Institute, Summer of

2002 Japanese Technology Internship Program Participant, University of Michigan, Summer of 2001 Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellow, University of Michigan, 2000 to

2001 Computer Science Departmental Fellow, University of Michigan, 1999 to 2000 Alumni Distinguished Scholar, Michigan State University, 1994 to 1999

Summit Group Award of Excellence, Michigan State University, 1998 to 1999 Member of National Champion Debate Team, Michigan State University, 1994 to 1999 Distinguished Engineering Scholarship, Michigan State University, 1994 to 1996 REVIEWING SERVICE Journals Editorial Board, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation Editorial Board, International Journal of Business and Systems Research Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Data Information and Quality, European Marketing Academy,

International Conference on Information Systems, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Omega, Ecological Modeling, Service Science, MIT Sloan Management Review, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Nature: Scientific Reports, Information Systems and E-Business Management, Organization Science, ACM Computing Surveys, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Decisions Sciences, International Journal of Research in Marketing (IJRM), Journal of Consumer Research (JCR), International Journal of Business and Systems Research, Marketing Letters, Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM), Journal of Artificial Systems and Social Simulation (JASSS), Simulation, Evolutionary Computation, Complexity, Eastern Economic Journal, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Decision Support Systems, Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ)

Conferences Program Committee Member, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, 2014, Auckland,

New Zealand. Program Committee Member, Energy Market Prediction Symposium, 2014, Arlington, VA Program Committee Member, 13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving form Nature,

2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Program Committee Member, World Congress on Social Simulation, 2014, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Program Committee Member and Associate Editor, International Conference on Information Systems,

2014, New Zealand. Program Committee Member, Winter Conference on Simulation, 2013, Washington, DC. Program Committee Member, Multi-Agent Based Simulation’13, 2013, St. Paul, MN. Reviewer, International Conference on Information Systems, 2012, Orlando, Florida. Program Committee Member, COMPLEX: 2nd International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications, 2012, Santa Fe, NM Program Committee Member, 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving form Nature,

2012, Taormina, Italy. Program Committee Member, Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation, 2012, San Antonio, TX Program Committee Member, World Congress on Social Simulation, 2012, Tapei, Taiwan. Program Committee Member, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2012,

Dublin, Ireland. Program Committee Member, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC) 2012, Valencia, Spain. Chair of Workshops, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2012, Philadelphia,

PA. Reviewer, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2011, Shanghai, China.

Program Committee Member, Computational Social Science Society of the Americas (CSSSA) 2011, Santa Fe, NM.

Reviewer, ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2011, San Diego, CA, USA.

Program Committee Member, Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2011, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Program Committee Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2010 Fall Symposium on Complex Adaptive Systems, Arlington, VA

Reviewer, Academy of Management (AOM) 2010, Montreal, Canada Program Committee Member, Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2010, Barcelona, Spain Program Committee Member, Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments

(EvoStoc) at Evo* 2010, Istanbul, Turkey Reviewer, International Conference on Information Systems 2009, Phoenix, AZ Program Committee Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2009

Fall Symposium on Complex Adaptive Systems, Arlington, VA Program Committee Member, Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2009, Trondheim,

Norway Program Committee Member, Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments

(EvoStoc) at Evo* 2009, Turbingen, Germany Program Committee Member, World Congress on Social Simulation, (WCSS) 2008, George Mason

University, Washington, DC Program Committee Member, Alife XI (2008), Winchester, UK Program Committee Member, Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments

(EvoStoc) at Evo* 2008, Napoli, Italy Program Committee Member, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2008,

Hong Kong Program Committee Member, Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems (EvoDOP)

at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2007, London, UK. Program Committee Member, Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments

(EvoStoc) at Evo* 2007, Valencia, Spain Program Committee Member, Genetic Algorithm Track for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

Conference (GECCO) 2006, Seattle, WA, USA Program Committee Member, Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments

(EvoStoc) at EvoWorkshops 2006, Budapest, Hungary Program, Committee Member, Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems (EvoDOP)

at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2005, Washington, DC, USA

Program Committee Member, EvoDOP-2005 Workshop at GECCO 2005 Granting Agencies Reviewer, National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (NSSEFF), Department of

Defense Reviewer, ADVANCE SEED Grant, UMD Reviewer, Air Force Office of Scientific Research Reviewer, Maryland Industrial Partnerships Reviewer, National Science Foundation External Reviewer, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

External Reviewer, National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FONDECYT) of the Chilean Government Commission for Scientific and Technological Development (CONICYT), Chile

External Reviewer, Summer Research Grants, Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary Books Series Advisor, Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science, Wiley Publishing Ad-Hoc Reviewer, SAGE Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Wiley Publishing Thesis External Reviewer, “AWOL – A Model for Solving Decision Problems in Multi-Agent Systems” (2009)

Dissertation of Ami Ricardo Berler at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel External Reviewer, “Fitness Adaptation in Memetic Algortihms” (2007) Dissertation of Ferrante Neri at

the University of Jyvaskyla, Norway UNIVERSITY SERVICE Director, Center for Complexity in Business, University of Maryland, 2011-present Smith Media Team, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 2011-present Faculty Council, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 2014-2016 Chair, External Research Incentives Task Force, University of Maryland, 2013-2014 UMD-JHU High Performance Research Computing Facility Director Search Committee, 2013-2014 UMD IT Strategic Planning Committee, University of Maryland, 2012 Smith IT Architecture Review Committee, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of

Maryland, 2011-2012 Faculty Council, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 2010-2012 Director of Research, Center for Complexity in Business, University of Maryland, 2008-2011 Banneker-Key Scholarship Committee, University of Maryland, 2011 Coordinator, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems Reading Group (NRG), Northwestern

University, 2006-2008 President, Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Student Society (CSEG), University of

Michigan 2004-2005 Coordinator, Complex Systems Advanced Academic Workshop (CSAAW), University of Michigan,

2003-2005 Executive Board and Events Coordinator, Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Student Society

(CSEG), 2001-2004 Computer Science Curriculum Committee, University of Michigan, 2001-2002 Computer Science Graduate Studies and Research Committee, Michigan State University, 1998-1999 Vice-President, MSU Chapter of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Michigan State

University, 1995-1999 Advisory Committee to the Chair of the Computer Science Department, Michigan State University,

1996-1998 Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honors), Michigan State University Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Computer Science Honors), Michigan State University Mu Pi Epsilon (Mathematics Honors), Michigan State University Phi Tau Sigma (Philosophy Honors), Michigan State University

PhD COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS Chen Wang, University of Maryland, Applied Statistics (Co-Chair) Hechao Sun, University of Maryland, Applied Statistics (Co-Chair) Keith Burghardt, University of Maryland, Physics (Co-Chair) David Darmon, University of Maryland, Applied Mathematics (Co-Chair) James Lampton, University of Maryland, Computer Science, grad. 2014 Jared Sylvester, University of Maryland, Computer Science, grad. 2014 Tim Chabuk, University of Maryland, Computer Science, grad. 2013 Chris Crawford, University of Louisville, Entrepreneurship, grad. 2013 David Anderson, University of Maryland, Operations Management, grad. 2013 Mark Hsu, University of Maryland, Civil Engineering, grad. 2013 Chris Crawford, University of Louisville, Entrepreneurship, grad. 2013 Wei Guo, University of Maryland, Scientific Computation, grad. 2013 (Co-Chair) Galileo Namata, University of Maryland, Computer Science, grad. 2012 Shanchan Wu, University of Maryland, Computer Science, grad. 2012 Dilek Gunnec, University of Maryland, Decision, Operations and Information Technology, grad. 2012 Hossam Sharara, University of Maryland, Computer Science, grad. 2012 Hyoryung Nam, University of Maryland, Marketing, grad. 2012 Randy Casstevens, George Mason University, Computer Science, grad. 2012 Derek Monner, University of Maryland, Computer Science, grad. 2011 Forrest Stonedahl, Northwestern University, Computer Science, grad. 2011 Don Miner, University of Maryland – Baltimore County, Computer Science, grad. 2010 Yao Wu, University of Maryland, Computer Science, grad. 2009 Yandan Lu, University of Illinois-Chicago, Urban Planning, grad. 2009 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP AND LEADERSHIP ROLES INFORMS, College of Artificial Intelligence, Publicity Chair, 2014-2015 American Marketing Association (AMA), member Computational Social Science Society of the Americas (CSSSA), member Open Agent Based Modeling (OpenABM) Consortium, founding member Network for Computational Modeling in Socio-Ecological Sciences (CoMSES), board of advisors Network for Computational Modeling in Socio-Ecological Sciences (CoMSES), founding member Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), member Special Interest Group for Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO), member American Statistical Association (ASA), member Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), member