Episode 10

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31st Jul 2021

Math, Networks, and Human Behavior with PJ Lamberson

So, turns out human behavior is...complex. PJ Lamberson fills talks about computational social science, networks, how things go viral, why Pi is such a weird number, and using math to understand human behavior.

PJ Lamberson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at UCLA. He has a PhD in Mathematics from Columbia and previously taught on the faculty at Northwestern and MIT. His research develops and uses tools from the emerging field of computational social science to study how social connections shape human behavior. He has published research in mathematics, communication, ecology, epidemiology, transportation, genetics, political science, network science, economics, and management. PJ is also an award-winning teacher and a frequent consultant and corporate speaker on networks, crowdsourcing, and innovation.

Websites PJ Mentioned:

http://social-dynamics.org/

Volunteerscience.com

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo/

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Idea Land
Smart People Talking about Smart Things. I Learn Something. You Learn Something. It's a win-win.
Join me, Ravi Komatireddy, as I tirelessly seek out the best ideas and the smartest people. Art, Science, Technology, Health, Society, Culture...no idea is off-limits. I learn something, you learn something. It's a win-win really.

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ravi komatireddy

Dr. Ravi Komatireddy MD is a physician and digital health entrepreneur who is currently the Founder and CEO of Motiv Health Inc, a startup passionately focused on using human and AI coaching for health behavior change.

He is an Internal Medicine physician who trained at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and the University of California San Diego. He was one of the first wireless digital health scholars at the Scripps Translational Science Institute where he earned a masters in clinical translational investigation.

Previously, he co-founded and served as Chief Medical Officer of 2 funded digital health startups: Lumiata Inc., a big data, AI healthcare company focused on creating the world’s largest medical knowledge graph; and Reflexion Health Inc., a digital medicine, virtual physical therapy platform using motion tracking cameras in the home. He also received the first grant from NASA flight opportunities program to advance research in digital health and human spaceflight and continues to work with NASA on a COVID-19 Taskforce. He advises several Digital health startups and holds a volunteer faculty position at the University of California San Diego.

In general, he's intensely curious about the world and won't stop bothering people until they answer his questions.