Just this guy, you know...
As you might guess from the title of this page, my name is Alexander. I am currently a Doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and a member of the Networks, Computation, and Social Dynamics lab (NCASD) . I was previously employed at GESIS – The Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences as a Research Associate. Prior to that, I was a Masters student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, majoring in Logic, Computation, and Methodology. As an undergraduate, I majored in Economics and Statistics, as well as Philosophy. I am interested in algorithmic causal search and machine learning. I am also interested in internet privacy.
My current research is focused on studying degeneracy in stochastic actor oriented models (SAOMS), simulated public health interventions using SAOMs, the properties of node-level fixed effects in exponential random graph models (ERGMs), and detecting interviewer fraud in large social science datasets. Other research projects include effectively analyzing high dimensional data, and the use of non-probability samples. Past research also included using causal search algorithms and agent based models to inform and test one another.