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Activities

The Computational Social Science Cluster exists as a vehicle for fostering collaborations among social science faculty doing computationally-intensive work, as well as providing small grants to Faculty to kick-start projects in this arena.

Past Highlights

Data Science Frontiers: Society and Politics

This interdisciplinary workshop gathered social science scholars from October 15–17, 2025 at 19 Washington Square North, New York to explore cutting-edge methods in causal inference and robust analysis for studying society and politics. The program featured keynote talks, paper panels, a poster session for early-career researchers, and hands-on teaching workshops on the latest tools in social data science. Duncan J. Watts (University of Pennsylvania) delivered the keynote address. The event was co-convened by Aaron Kaufman (NYUAD), Delia Baldassarri (NYU), and Cyrus Samii (NYU), in collaboration with NYU Sociology, NYU Politics, the NYUAD Social Science Division, Computational Social Science Cluster, and the Social Science Research Hub.

Frontiers of Network Science Workshop

From May 12–13, 2025, the 2025 Frontiers of Network Science Workshop brought together scholars from sociology, economics, political science, management, and computer science to explore emerging research at the intersection of networks, technology, and society. Highlights included work leveraging machine learning, NLP, and big data to address timely social challenges. The workshop, convened by NYUAD faculty Mario D. Molina and Minsu Park, continued its tradition of fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and global collaboration since 2017.

MENA & Asian Polmeth Conference 2024

Co-organized by the NYUAD Institute and the Division of Social Science

On January 11-12, 2024, the NYUAD Institute and Division of Social Science brought together 65 leading scholars from across the globe to focus on the use of interdisciplinary computational tools and cutting-edge methods to study the most important issues in contemporary politics: polarization, misinformation, democratic backsliding, and conflict.

Guest speakers included NYUAD Provost Arlie Petters, and Jennifer Hill from NYU NY.

Provost Arlie Petters presenting at MENA and Asian Polmeth 2024 Conference

Other Past Activities

March 6, 2025

Ben Rosche (Princeton University) on "Socioeconomic segregation in friendship networks. Social closure in US high schools."
March 3, 2025

Francesco Rampazzo (University of Oxford) on "Understanding Migrant Fertility Patterns Through Consumer Data."
February 17, 2025

Filippo Pellegrino (Imperial College London) on  "A Tale of Commodities and Climate-Driven Disasters."
May 9, 2023

Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri (University of Trento) on "Computational Social Science and Cognitive Sociology."
February 1, 2023

Adam Osman (University of Illinois) on "Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment."
December 12, 2022

Ashrakat Elshehawy (University of Oxford) on "Religious Minorities and Public Service Provision: Evidence from 19th and early 20th Century Egypt."
November 22, 2022

Mohsen Mosleh (University of Exeter) on "Connection and correction on social media: Digital field experiments to study the dynamics of tie formation and debunking."
May 3, 2019

Hirofumi Takesue (Tokyo Metropolitan University) on "From defection to in-group favoritism to cooperation: Simulation analysis of the social dilemma in dynamic networks"