David Masad is a consultant specializing in computational social science. He uses agent-based modeling, data science, network analysis and other computational techniques to study complex social systems. He has a PhD from George Mason University, and a BA from the University of Chicago.
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Dr. David Masad
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May 2013
Education
- BA Economics, minor in Near Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
- Ph.D. Computational Social Science. George Mason University
Areas of Expertise
- Python
- Java
- C/C++/C#
- Web scraping
- Natural Language Processing libraries.
Publications
- Herd Privacy: Modeling the Spillover Effects of Privacy Settings on Social Networking Sites. Presented at the 2011 CSSSA Annual Conference, 10-12 October 2011, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
Awards
- Presidential Scholar, George Mason University (three-year Presidential scholarship)