
Buddhika Nettasinghe
@buddhikanett
Assistant professor @TippieIowa | Research: networks, complex systems, statistical inference
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27-12-2017 00:55:56
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Can’t wait for this year’s #FutureBAProf starting Sunday! We will discuss what academic careers in business analytics are *really* like, with Tallys Yunes Mike Fry Barrett Thomas Tippie Analytics Sam Burer Beste Basciftci Kang Zhao Pritha Dutta Tippie College of Business


First week of fall classes at Stanford. I'm teaching a new MS-level class, Social Algorithms, w/ detailed syllabus here: msande231.github.io/syllabus Draws on syllabi by @5harad Matthew Salganik | @msalganik.bsky.social Ashton Anderson & others. Input appreciated! Also, I'm now on the other place as jugander.



Latest work: Modeling dynamics of opinion formation in emotionally polarized societies: arxiv.org/abs/2403.16940 Our work (with Buddhika Nettasinghe) highlights the power of out-group hate to destroy consensus and why echo chambers help protect against polarization.

Congratulations to Prof. Ann Melissa Campbell for winning the University's May Brodbeck Distinguished Achievement Award for Faculty. We are so proud to have you in the department! …lebrationofexcellence.sites.uiowa.edu




Tippie Analytics kicks off this year's #FutureBAProf event Sunday! We will have 28 PhD students and postdocs from across the country in Iowa City to learn about academic careers in business analytics from great speakers such as Kang Zhao Beste Basciftci Anna Nagurney Tallys Yunes

The 3rd Future BA Prof workshop at Tippie Analytics was a blast! Here is a thread of my Linkedin posts summarizing the main talks. And keep an eye for a possible 4th edition next summer! #futureBAprof


Paper with Buddhika Nettasinghe, Allon Percus, 🇺🇦 Kristina Lerman 🇺🇦 accepted at The Web Conference 2025. We quantify affective polarization - in-group favoritism & out-group animosity and how it drives divisions on masking & lockdowns. arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14414

