Joshua M. Epstein

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Joshua M. Epstein
Born
computer modeling
InstitutionsBrookings Institution
Johns Hopkins University
New York University

Joshua Morris Epstein

Institute of Medicine's Committee on Identifying and Prioritizing New Preventive Vaccines.[3][4]

Early life and education

Epstein was born in

MIT in 1981. His doctoral thesis was entitled Political impediments to military effectiveness: the case of Soviet frontal aviation and his advisor was William W. Kaufmann.[1]

Career

Early in his career, Epstein was Senior Fellow in Economic Studies and Director of the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics at the Brookings Institution. He has worked on agent-based computational modeling of biomedical and social dynamics. He has written or co-authored several books, including Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up, with Robert Axtell (MIT Press/Brookings Institution); Nonlinear Dynamics, Mathematical Biology, and Social Science (Addison-Wesley), and Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling (Princeton University Press). In 2008, he received an NIH Director's Pioneer Award, and in 2010 an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Amherst College.[3]

In Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up, Epstein and Axtell developed the first large-scale agent-based computational model, the Sugarscape, to explore the role of social phenomenon such as seasonal migrations, pollution, sexual reproduction, combat, and transmission of disease and even culture.

He has published in the modeling area, including recent articles on the dynamics of civil violence,

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) and the epidemiology of smallpox (in the American Journal of Epidemiology).[citation needed
]

In his book Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling he explores the role of agent-based models in the

generative sciences
.

From 1987 to 2010 Epstein was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and served as the director of the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics[9]

He taught computational and mathematical modeling at Princeton University and the Santa Fe Institute Summer School.[3]

He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.[3] He is also a member of the editorial boards of the journal Complexity,[10] and of the Princeton University Press Studies in Complexity book series.[citation needed]

Awards and honors

Epstein has received awards including the NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2008).[3]

Publications

  • Epstein, Joshua M. (December 1987). Strategy and Force Planning: The Case of the Persian Gulf. .
  • Epstein, Joshua M. (May 1990). Conventional Force Reductions: A Dynamic Assessment. .
  • Epstein, Joshua M.; .
  • Epstein, Joshua M. (May 5, 1997). Nonlinear Dynamics, Mathematical Biology, and Social Science. Westview. p. 176. .
  • Epstein, Joshua M. (January 8, 2007). Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling. .
  • Epstein, Joshua M. (2008). Why Model?. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.
  • Epstein, Joshua M.; Hammond, Ross; Parker, Jon I.; Cummings, Derek (2008). Coupled Contagion Dynamics of Fear and Disease: Mathematical and Computational Explorations. Public Library of Science One Journal.
  • Epstein, Joshua M. (2009). "Modelling to contain pandemics".
    PMID 19661897
    .
  • Lempel, Howard; Hammond, Ross; Epstein, Joshua M. (2009). Economic Cost and Health Care Workforce Effects of School Closures in the U.S. Public Library of Science Currents: Influenza.
  • Parker, Jon I.; Epstein, Joshua M. (2011). A global-scale distributed agent-based model of disease transmission. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.
  • Epstein, Joshua M.; Pankajakshan, Ramesh; Hammond, Ross (2011). "Combining Computational Fluid Dynamics and Agent-Based Modeling: A New Approach to Evacuation Planning". PLOS ONE. 6 (5). Public Library of Science One Journal: e20139.
    PMID 21687788
    .

References

  1. ^ a b Epstein, Joshua Morris (1980). Political impediments to military effectiveness: the case of Soviet frontal aviation (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Joshua M. Epstein | NYU College of Global Public Health". publichealth.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Epstein, Joshua, Ph.D." Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  4. ^ "Joshua M. Epstein | Santa Fe Institute". Archived from the original on 20 December 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  5. ^ Rauch, Jonathan (April 2002). "Seeing Around Corners" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  6. ^ "Joshua M. Epstein '76".
  7. ^ Epstein, Joshua M. Modeling civil violence: An agent-based computational approach PNAS vol. 99, May 14, 2002, pp. 7243–7250.
  8. ^ Axtell, R. L., Epstein, J. M., Dean, J. S., Gumerman, G. J., Swedlund, A. C., Harburger, J., ... & Parker, M. (2002). Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(suppl 3), 7275-7279.
  9. ^ "Joshua M. Epstein – Brookings Institution". Brookings Institution. Archived from the original on 27 April 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
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