Duncan J. Watts

Duncan Watts
Watts presenting at iCitizen 2008
Born (1971-02-20) February 20, 1971
NationalityAustralian - Canadian
Alma materUniversity of New South Wales
Cornell University (PhD)
Known forWatts and Strogatz model
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
AwardsFellow of the Network Science Society (NetSci), 2018.
Scientific career
FieldsSociology, network science
InstitutionsColumbia University
Microsoft Research
Santa Fe Institute
Yahoo! Research
Nuffield College, Oxford
ThesisThe structure and dynamics of small-world systems (1997)
Doctoral advisorSteven Strogatz
Websitewww.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/duncan-j-watts-phd

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.