SciTS 2013 Conference: Sessions

Luis Amaral

Luis Amaral, Ph.D. received his BS (1990) and MS (1992) in Physics from the University of Lisbon. He went on to obtain a Ph.D. from the Department of Physics at Boston University under the guidance of Gene Stanley. From 1995-1996, Amaral was a postdoctoral fellow at Forschungszentrum Juelich in Germany. He successively spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1999, Amaral became a Visiting Scholar at both the Center for Polymer Studies and at the Margret and H.A. Rey Laboratory for Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine, and from 2000 to 2002 he held joint Research Associate appointments at these institutions. Since August of 2002, Amaral has served as faculty member at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University.

Dr. Amaral conducts and directs research that provides insight into the emergence, evolution, and stability of complex social and biological systems. His research aims to address some of the most pressing challenges facing human societies and the world's ecosystems, including the mitigation of errors in healthcare settings, the characterization of the conditions fostering innovation and creativity, or the growth limits imposed by sustainability. Professor Amaral has published over a hundred scientific peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals. Those papers have been cited in excess of 7 thousand times; ten having accumulated more than 200 citations each. His research has been featured in numerous media sources, both in the US and abroad. Professor Amaral has received a K25 CAREER award from the National Institutes of Health in 2003, was named to the 2006 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research by the W. M. Keck Foundation, and has been selected as an Earlier Career Scientist by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

James Evans

James Evans is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and in the College, member of the Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and Fellow at the Computation Institute. His work explores how social and technical institutions shape knowledge—science, scholarship, law, news, religion—and how these understandings reshape the social and technical world. Evans is particularly interested in the relation of markets to science and knowledge more broadly. He has studied how industry collaboration shapes the ethos, secrecy and organization of academic science; the web of individuals and institutions that produce innovations; and markets for ideas and their creators. Evans has also examined the impact of the Internet on knowledge in society. His work uses natural language processing, the analysis of social and semantic networks, statistical modeling, and field-based observation and interviews. Evans’ research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and has been published in Science,American Journal of Sociology, Social Studies of Science, Administrative Science Quarterly and other journals. His work has been featured in Nature,the Economist, Atlantic Monthly, Wired, NPR, BBC, El Pais, CNN and many other outlets.

Lee Giles

Dr. C. Lee Giles is the David Reese Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. He is also graduate college Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, courtesy Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, and Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory. He directs the Next Generation CiteSeer, CiteSeer^x project and codirects the Chem_xSeer project at Penn State. He has been associated with Columbia University, the University of Maryland, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and the University of Trento.