John Meluso

Alumni

John Meluso

Ezra Systems Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell Systems Engineering

Previously Sloan VERSO Postdoctoral Fellow for Systems, Organizations, and Inclusion

Affiliated with the LSD

Hello and welcome! I'm John Meluso (he/him, they/them). I study how communication and social psychology shape networked collaborations.

I'm the Sloan VERSO Postdoctoral Fellow for Systems, Organizations, and Inclusion where I work with Laurent Hébert-Dufresne & Juniper Lovato. I completed my Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Michigan in Design Science. At U-M, I studied Complex System Design with Jesse Austin-Breneman and Management & Organizations with Jose Uribe. Also on my committee were Scott Page and Lynette Shaw.

For overviews of my publications, research, teaching, and inclusion work, take a look at my website. To see my full organization science job market documents, check out my job market page!

Disciplines: management & organizations, complex systems, communication, social psychology, information science, systems engineering, design Methods: network science, agent-based modeling, optimization, data science, interviews, surveys, diaries, ethnography Topics: collective performance, innovation processes, data science, inclusion, organizational culture, open source, feminism, virtual collaboration, information & communication technology, miscommunication Industry Experience: aerospace, automotive, consumer goods, software, management Personal interests: podcasts, bunnies, coffee, science fiction, community, authenticity, mindfulness, privacy, balance

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Latest publications

2026 |
preprint

Artificial collectives of specialists and generalists excel at different tasks

J. Meluso, L. Hébert-Dufresne, C. Riedl, and H. O. Gao
2024 |
preprint

Invisible Labor in Open Source Software Ecosystems

J. Meluso, A. Casari, K. McLaughlin, and M. Z. Trujillo
2023 |
article

Multidisciplinary learning through collective performance favors decentralization

J. Meluso and L. Hébert-Dufresne
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 120, 34
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