Current Members

Selena Livas
Email: livass@uci.edu
Department: Sociology
Program: Sociology, PhD
Research Interests: Environmental Sociology, Social Networks, Environmental Policy, Demography, Methodology

Loring Thomas
Email: thomaslj@uci.edu
CV: Thomas_CV.pdf
Google Scholar: Loring Thomas
Department: Sociology
Program: Sociology, PhD
Research Interests: Spatial Statistics, Spatial Social Networks, Spatial Epidemiology, ERGM Development, and Migration

Rick Gardner
Email: regardn1@uci.edu
Department: Sociology
Program: Sociology, PhD

Peng Huang
Email: peng.huang@uci.edu
Personal website: https://penghuang.me
CV: https://penghuang.me/cv/Peng_Huang_CV.pdf
Program: Sociology, PhD
Research Interests: Social Networks, Migration, Demography, Inequality, Mathematical Sociology, Methodology
Elizabeth M. Diessner (Liz)
Email: ediessne@uci.edu
Websites: lizdiessner.com, Google Scholar
Program: PhD in Chemical, Applied, and Materials Physics (ChAMP)
Department: Chemistry
Research Interests: Molecular Modeling and Dynamics Simulations, Protein Structure and Dynamics, Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Network Models of Physical Systems, Machine Learning

Zixiao Zong
Email: zzong2@uci.edu

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

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: 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