Izabel P Aguiar

I’m delighted to be an Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.

Within my research, I am motivated by careful, patient, and theoretically informed data science. I hope that this approach to method development will lead to important insights about both our society and the ways in which we study it. I hope that engaging in this challenge reveals a cycle wherein data scientists learn from the social sciences so that we may develop more precise technical methodology which we can use to learn more about the social sciences.

I see this motivating perspective as broadly applicable throughout data science, but I specifically apply it to my work on developing methodology for studying social networks. Most recently I’ve been excited about how people perceive their social worlds. See my research page for details on my work and new questions I’ve been thinking about.

Click on one of the links on the left to learn more about me and what I’m up to.