Current Visitor
Jacob Gates Foster
Affiliation
Program in Interdisciplinary Studies
Field of Study
Computational Social Science, Collective Intelligence
Home Institution
University of California, Los Angeles
Website
Jacob Gates Foster aims to understand how complex wholes become smarter than their parts. He uses tools from machine learning and complexity science to study the social production of collective intelligence, the evolutionary dynamics of ideas and institutions, and the relationship between culture and cognition. He blends disciplinary insights to clarify key ideas and develop new conceptual frameworks.
Dates at IAS
Visitor
Program in Interdisciplinary Studies
– current
Member
School of Social Science
–
Degrees
University of Calgary
Ph.D.
2010
Duke University
B.S.
2003
Honors
2003
Rhodes Scholarship
Appointments
UCLA
2020
Associate Professor of Sociology
UCLA
2013–2020
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Chicago
2013
Research Associate (Assistant Professor)
University of Chicago
2010–2013
Postdoctoral Scholar