Will Thompson
Ph.D. student (Complex Systems & Data Science)
Affiliated with the LSD
Affiliated with the CDL
Biography
Will is a Ph.D. student and research assistant advised by Jean Gabriel Young and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne. His research centers on modeling and inferring the diffusion of information on social networks, studying binary state dynamics on higher order networks and data-driven inference of opinion dynamics models.
From 2021 to 2022 he worked as a post-bac researcher at Los Alamos National Labs working on the Coherent Captain Mills searching for dark matter. In 2019 he worked for the MITRE corporation applying complex systems science to solve real world problems.
Education
2022-2026 (est)
Ph.D in Complex Systems and Data Science
at
University of Vermont
Jean Gabriel Young and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
2022-2026 (est)
2016-2020
BA in Liberal Arts
at
St. John's College, Santa Fe
2016-2020
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Latest publications
2026 |
preprint
Emergent contagion complexity: Disentangling mechanistic complexity from correlated heterogeneity
K. Tang, D. Kaiser, W. H. W. Thompson, J.-G. Young, L. Hébert-Dufresne, and N. W. Landry
2026 |
preprint
Simpson's paradox explains the ubiquity of nonlinear, threshold, and complex contagions
L. Hébert-Dufresne, A. Allard, J.-G. Young, W. H. W. Thompson, and G. St-Onge
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