CV | Amir Ghasemian

Name	Amir Ghasemian
Position	Cofounder & Lead Project Scientist at UCLA's OASIS Lab \| Research Scientist at UPenn's Computational Social Science Lab
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I am a cofounder of the OASIS Lab and its Lead Project Scientist at UCLA, and a Research Scientist at the University of Pennsylvania's Computational Social Science Lab, working with Duncan Watts.
My research interests lie in network science, statistical inference, causal inference, information theory, machine learning, data mining, and signal processing.
My research develops and applies computational methods to understand, predict, and improve complex networked systems—while mapping the fundamental limits of inference: when data contains enough signal and when algorithms can efficiently recover it. I organize my work around three aims: empirically analyzing when methods generalize or fail, deriving theoretical limits on inference and detection, and applying these insights to real-world domains including social networks, digital platforms, public health, and human-AI interaction. I draw on tools from network science, machine learning, causal inference, statistical physics, and information theory.

2024-present

Cofounder & Lead Project Scientist

OASIS Lab, University of California, Los Angeles
2024-present

Research Scientist

Computational Social Science Lab, University of Pennsylvania
2021-2023

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Human Nature Lab, Yale Institute for Network Science, Yale University
2020-2023

Affiliated researcher at Computational Social Science Lab

University of Pennsylvania