Joshua Epstein
Joshua Epstein
Professor of Epidemiology
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Professional overview
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Joshua Epstein is Professor of Epidemiology in the NYU School of Global Public Health, and founding Director of the NYU Agent-Based Modeling Laboratory, with affiliated appointments at The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the College of Arts & Sciences. Prior to joining NYU, he was Professor of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins, and Director of the Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavior, and Health Sciences, with Joint appointments in Economics, Applied Mathematics, International Health, and Biostatistics. Before that, he was Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and Director of the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics. His research interest has been modeling complex social dynamics using mathematical and computational methods, notably the method of Agent-Based Modeling in which he is a recognized pioneer. For this transformative innovation, he was awarded the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award in 2008, an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Amherst College in 2010, and was elected to the Society of Sigma XI in 2018. He has applied this method to the study of infectious diseases (e.g., Ebola, pandemic influenza, and smallpox), vector-borne diseases (e.g., zika), urban disaster preparedness, contagious violence, the evolution of norms, economic dynamics, computational archaeology, and the emergence of social classes, among many other topics. His books include Nonlinear Dynamics, Mathematical Biology, and Social Science (Wiley 1997), Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling (Princeton, 2006), Agent_Zero: Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science (Princeton, 2013), and with Robert Axtell, Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up (MIT, 1996). Dr. Epstein earned his BA from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Education
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BA, Independent Scholar with Thesis in Political Economy, Amherst College, Amherst, MAPhD, Political Science (Specialization: Security Studies, Communist Studies, and Economics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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Honors and awards
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Honorary Doctorate of Science, Amherst College (2010)Director’s Pioneer Award, National Institutes of Health (2008)Rockefeller Foundation International Relations Fellowship (1984)Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship (1983)Ford Foundation Dual Expertise Fellowship in Soviet/East European Area Studies and International Security/Arms Control (1981)Institute for the Study of World Politics Fellowship (1981)
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Areas of research and study
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Agent-Based ModelingApplied EconomicsCost AnalysisDisaster HealthEpidemiologyHealth EconomicsInfectious DiseasesMathematical and Computational ModelingModeling Social and Behavioral DynamicsNew York Department of Health and Mental HygienePublic Health SystemsUrban HealthUrban InformaticsUrban Science
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Presentations
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Publications
Publications
Simulating the Simultaneous Impact of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and Naloxone on Opioid Overdose Death in Eight New York Counties
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Can Social Norms Explain Long-Term Trends in Alcohol Use? Insights from Inverse Generative Social Science
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Generating Mixed Patterns of Residential Segregation: An Evolutionary Approach
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Inverse Generative Social Science: Backward to the Future
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Special Section on "Inverse Generative Social Science": Guest Editors’ Statement
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Privacy and contact tracing efficacy
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.A review and agenda for integrated disease models including social and behavioural factors
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Triple contagion: A two-fears epidemic model
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Data analysis and modeling pipelines for controlled networked social science experiments
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Networked experiments and modeling for producing collective identity in a group of human subjects using an iterative abduction framework
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.The Normative Underpinnings of Population-Level Alcohol Use: An Individual-Level Simulation Model
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Panel discussion
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Nonlinear dynamics, mathematical biology, and social science
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Advancing Agent_Zero
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Social conformity despite individual preferences for distinctiveness
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Agent_Zero: Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Modeling the regional spread and control of vancomycin-resistant enterococci
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Agent-based computational models and generative social science
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Coordination in transient social networks
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Generative social science: Studies in agent-based computational modeling
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Growing adaptive organizations
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Learning to be thoughtless
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Modeling civil violence
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Non-explanatory equilibria
Failed retrieving data from NYU Scholars.Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the kayenta anasazi in long house valley
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