Yaneer Bar-Yam
Yaneer Bar-Yam | |
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Bar-Yam (on the left) at Wikimania 2014 | |
| Born | 1959 (age 65–66) |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Complex systems (Application to social, biological and physical systems) |
| Institutions | New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) (1997-today) Boston University (1991-1997) |
| Thesis | Microscopic Theory of the Dynamics of Defects in Semiconductors. (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Dimitris Joannopoulos |
| Doctoral students | Erik Rauch |
| Website | necsi |
Yaneer Bar-Yam (born 1959) is an American scientist and activist specializing in complex systems. An expert in the quantitative analysis of pandemics, he advised policy makers on the Western African Ebola virus epidemic and founded EndCoronavirus.org, a global network of several volunteers formed in February 2020 to provide information, guidelines, and policy advocacy to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), an independent research institution that studies complex systems science and its real-world applications.