Duncan J. Watts
Duncan Watts | |
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Watts presenting at iCitizen 2008 | |
| Born | February 20, 1971 |
| Nationality | Australian - Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of New South Wales Cornell University (PhD) |
| Known for | Watts and Strogatz model Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age |
| Awards | Fellow of the Network Science Society (NetSci), 2018. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology, network science |
| Institutions | Columbia University Microsoft Research Santa Fe Institute Yahoo! Research Nuffield College, Oxford |
| Thesis | The structure and dynamics of small-world systems (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Steven Strogatz |
| Website | www |
Duncan James Watts (born February 20, 1971) is a computational social scientist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City, and is known for his work on small-world networks.