Curriculum Vitae Assistant Professor, Sloan School of Management, M.I.T.

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1 September 15 Curriculum Vitae Damon M. Centola Annenberg School of Communication University of Pennsylvania 3620 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA Ph/Office: Fax/Office: Education Ph.D. Sociology, Cornell University, 2006 Thesis: Simple Models of Collective Behavior MA Sociology, Cornell University, 2004 BA Philosophy/Logic (summa cum laude), Marlboro College, 1997 Employment Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor by courtesy, School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania Director, Network Dynamics Group Assistant Professor, Sloan School of Management, M.I.T Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy, Harvard University Visiting Scholar, The Brookings Institution Development Team, Net Logo Agent Based Modeling Environment, Center for Complex Systems and Connected Learning, Tufts University Research Areas Social Epidemiology, Social Networks, Web-Based Experiments, Online Health Policy, Computational and Agent Based Modeling Awards and Honors Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Fellow, Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Endowment for Communication 2014 US Patent # , A method of creating social networks to facilitate behavior change. 1

2 2012 Runner-up, RWJF National Young Leader in American Healthcare Award 2012 Kavli Frontiers of Science Participant, National Academy of Sciences 2011 Goodman Award for Outstanding Contribution to Sociological Methodology, American Sociological Association 2011 Fellow, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Stanford University 2011 Award for Best Publication in Mathematical Sociology, American Sociological Association 2010 Fellow, Center for the Study of Society and Organizations, Princeton University 2010 MIT / NEC Corporation Prize for Research in Computers and Communications ($50,000) 2009 Award for Best Publication in Mathematical Sociology, American Sociological Association 2006 Award for Best Publication in Mathematical Sociology, American Sociological Association 2004 Visiting Scholar Fellowship, ISERP, Columbia University 2004 Russell Sage Fellowship, Cornell University 2002 NSF IGERT Fellowship in Non-linear Dynamics and Chaos, Cornell University Grants PI (with Urmimala Sarkar, UCSF), NIH R01 Grant for Influencing Cervical Cancer Prevention and Detection through Social Media, ($1,885,685) PI (with Christine Dehlendorf, UCSF), Hewlett Foundation Grant for Effects of Peer Influence on Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Use ($423,500, direct) PI, Annenberg National Health Communication Study Seed Grant for How Online Networks Impact Health Outcomes ($35,000, direct), with Jingwen Zhang, Devon Brackbill, and Sijia Yang PI, James S. McDonnell Foundation Complex Systems Grant for Experimental Investigations into the Effects of Network Structure on Social Contagions ($259,000, direct) Co-Investigator, NSF Human and Social Dynamics Grant for Network Topology and the Dynamics of Collective Action ($90,946), with Michael Macy Publications 2015 American Journal of Sociology Centola, Damon. 2

3 The Social Origins of Networks and Diffusion. 120 (5): Preventive Medicine Reports Zhang, Jingwen, et al. Efficacy and causal mechanism of an online social media intervention to increase physical activity: Results of a randomized controlled trial. (2): Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Centola, Damon and Andrea Baronchelli. The Spontaneous Emergence of Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution. 112 (7): Social Science and Medicine Centola, Damon and Arnout van de Rijt. Choosing Your Network: Social Preferences in an Online Health Community. 125: Mil. Med Teyhen, D., et al. Incentives to Create and Sustain Healthy Behaviors: Technology Solutions and Research Needs. (179) 12:1419. JOSPT Teyhen, D., et al. Key Enablers to Facilitate Healthy Behavior Change. (44) Circulation Centola, Damon. Social Media and the Science of Health Behavior. (127) Rationality and Society Centola, Damon. Homophily, Networks, and Critical Mass: Solving the Start-up Problem in Large Group Collective Action. (25) Journal of Statistical Physics Centola, Damon. A Simple Model of Stability in Critical Mass Dynamics. 151 (1) Science Centola, Damon. An Experimental Study of Homophily in the Adoption of Health Behavior. 334: Science Centola, Damon. The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment. 329: Award for Best Publication in Mathematical Sociology, American Sociological Association 2011 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Sociological Methodology, American Sociological Association 2008 Journal of Mathematical Sociology Centola, Damon. Failure in Complex Networks. 33(1):

4 American Journal of Sociology Centola, Damon and Michael Macy. Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties. 113: Award for Best Publication in Mathematical Sociology, American Sociological Association Reprinted 2012 in Small Worlds Research, by Sebastian Schnettler. New York: Russell Sage Press. Journal of Conflict Resolution Centola, Damon, Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Avella, Victor Eguiluz, and Maxi San Miguel. Homophily, Cultural Drift, and the Co-Evolution of Cultural Groups. 51: Physica A Centola, Damon, Victor Eguiluz, and Michael Macy. Cascade Dynamics of Complex Propagation. 374: American Journal of Sociology Centola, Damon, Robb Willer, and Michael Macy. The Emperor s Dilemma: A Computational Model of Self-Enforcing Norms. 110(4): Award for Best Publication in Mathematical Sociology, American Sociological Association Reprinted 2012 in Small Worlds Research, by Sebastian Schnettler. New York: Russell Sage Press. The Handbook of Group Processes Centola, Damon and Michael Macy. edited by Susan Whelan.. Social Life in Silico: The Science of Artificial Societies. New York: Russell Sage Press. Op-Ed and Commentary Centola, Damon "Controlling public opinion: what the debate over 'The Dress' reveals". The Conversation. April 07, Patents and Technologies Establishing A Social Network (Inventor, US Patent# , Awarded April 2014) Net Logo Agent Based Modeling Environment (Developer, Release 1.0, September 2002) Courses System Dynamics (MBA) Artificial Societies (Ph.D.) Networks: Theory, Data, and Policy (Ph.D.) Social Networks and Complex Systems (Ph.D.) Collective Action and Collective Behavior (Ph.D.) Social Media and Social Dynamics (Ph.D.) New Methods for Studying Population Health (Ph.D.) Web-Based Social Research (Ph.D.) 4

5 Invited Talks Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, October 2015 Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, October 2015 Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, September 2015 ICA Panel on Computational Social Science, Puerto Rico, May 2015 Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, May 2015 Gould School of Law, University of Southern California, April 2015 Psychology Department, Stanford University, April 2015 Media X, Stanford University, March 2015 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, February 2015 Network Science Seminar, Northeastern University, February 2015 Keynote Speaker, Center for Mathematical Sciences Annual Symposium, Auckland, NZ, December 2014 Department of Sociology, Columbia University, November 2014 National Cancer Institute, Shady Grove, MD, November 2014 Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, October 2014 Keynote Speaker, Bloomberg School of Public Health Symposium, Johns Hopkins University, October 2014 Computational Social Science Seminar, Cornell University, September 2014 Symposium on Computational Social Science, Stanford University, August 2014 NSF Symposium on Knowledge Transfer, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, August 2014 Microsoft Research, New York City, June 2014 Complex Systems Scholars Symposium, James S. McDonnell Foundation, May 2014 Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, April 2014 Institute for Advanced Computational Science, SUNY Stony Brook, April 2014 Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA, January 2014 Simons Center for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley, November 2013 U.S.-China Health Summit, Harvard School of Public Health, October 2013 Behavioral Ethics Seminar, Philosophy Department, University of Pennsylvania, October 2013 Decision Process Seminar, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, October 2013 Keynote Speaker, Rochester Institute of Technology Big Data Conference, October 2013 NIH RAPIDD Workshop, Epidemiology and Networks, Princeton University, October 2013 Web-Based Social Science Forum, American Sociological Association, August 2013 Apple, Cupertino, CA, June 2013 Center for Vulnerable Populations, UCSF, May 2013 Scott & White Healthcare, Austin, TX, May 2013 Atlantic Causal Inference Conference, Harvard University, May 2013 U.S. Surgeon General s Office, Program for Health Innovation, April 2013 Future ICT Conference, Media Lab, MIT February 2013 Plenary speaker, MIT Conference on Future of Health and Wellness, February 2013 School of Public Health, Yale University, January 2013 National Academy of Sciences, Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, December 2012 Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania, December 2012 Complexity Seminar Series, Northeastern University, October 2012 Medical School, Duke/NUS, October 2012 Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, October 2012 Sociology Department, Yale University, September 2012 Health Policy Institute, Boston University, September 2012 School of Management, Boston University, May 2012 Learning Information Decision Sciences (LIDS) Seminar, M.I.T., May 2012 Science Board Symposium, Santa Fe Institute, May 2012 Demography and Population Biology, Stanford University, August 2011 Research on Algorithms and Incentives in Networks Seminar, Stanford University, June 2011 Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University, May

6 Economic Networks Workshop, Stanford University, May 2011 IRISS Board of Trustees, Stanford University, May MIT Europe Conference, Vienna, Austria, March 2011 Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, March 2011 Department of Sociology, Princeton University, November 2010 Industrial Liaison Program, M.I.T., October 2010 ISI Foundation, Complex Systems Lab, Torino, Italy, June 2010 ESCP Europe Business School, May 2010 Center for Scientific Computation & Mathematical Modeling, University of Maryland, April 2010 (Keynote Speaker) Warwick Medical School, Health Sciences Research Institute, March 2010 Warwick Center for Complex Systems, March 2010 Harvard Business School, February 2010 Department of Physics, Northeastern University, February 2010 John Snow, Inc., December 2009 NYU Stern, September 2009 Microsoft Research, July 2009 Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, July 2009 The Media Lab, M.I.T., June 2009 Engineering Systems Design Group, M.I.T., May 2009 Department of Sociology, Stanford University, April 2009 Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, April 2009 Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, April 2009 Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 2009 Organization Studies Group, M.I.T., April 2009 Berkman Center / Harvard Law School, Harvard University, April 2009 Marketing Department, M.I.T., February 2009 Industrial Liaison Program, M.I.T., December 2008 Economic Sociology Workshop, Princeton University, November 2008 Networks Workshop, Stanford University, October 2008 Laboratory for Information and Decision Sciences, M.I.T., October 2008 Project Zero, Harvard University, May 2008 School of Education, Harvard University, February 2008 Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, January 2008 Sloan School of Management, M.I.T., January 2008 Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, December 2007 Department of Sociology, New York University, December 2007 Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, December 2007 Workshop on Applied Statistics, Harvard University, October 2007 Culture and Social Analysis Workshop, Harvard University, October 2007 Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, August 2007 Economic Sociology Workshop, M.I.T., September 2006 Santa Fe Institute, July 2006 Complex Systems Workshop, Princeton University, May 2006 Collective Dynamics Group, Columbia University, September 2005 European Science Foundation International Meeting on Physics of Risk, November 2004 Selected Conference and Working Group Presentations Spontaneous Social Conventions, Analytical Sociology Conference, Cambridge, MA, June Emergent Social Networks, ASA Mathematical Sociology Regular Session, Denver, August

7 Dynamics of Emergent Social Structure, INAS, Columbia University, June New Experiments on Social Behavior, Economic Sociology Working Group, M.I.T. November Free Riding and The Stability of Collective Action ASA Invited Session on Future Directions in Mathematical Sociology, San Francisco August Dynamics of Diffusion on Social Networks, ASA Invited Session on Networks, San Francisco August Diffusion and Network Dynamics, BCNet Workshop: Trends and Perspective in Complex Networks, Barcelona, Spain December New Theory and Experiments on the Diffusion of Behavior, DIMACS Working Group on Social and Biological Contagion, Rutgers, NJ November Diffusion of Health Behavior: A Social Network Experiment, Robert Wood Johnson Annual Meeting, Aspen, May New Theory and Experiments in Diffusion Studies, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York City, August An Experimental Study of Social Diffusion, Robert Wood Johnson Annual Meeting, Aspen, May 2007 New Approaches to Diffusion on Social Networks, Robert Wood Johnson Seminar Series, Harvard School of Public Health, March 2007 Empirical Implications of Mathematical Models in Sociology, Research Group on Social Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, November Free Riding and the Strength of Weak Incentives, Inter-Ivy Sociology Conference, Cornell University, March Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties, First International Workshop on Games, Networks, and Cascades, New York City, October Social Networks and Collective Action, Cornell University Sociology Conference, Ithaca, NY, October Purposive, Solidary, and Instrumental Incentives in the Mobilization of American Social Groups (w/matt Grossman), Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM), NSF Workshop, Duke University, July The Stability of Cultural Diversity on Dynamic Networks, First International Winter School on Physics of Socio-Economic Systems, University of Konstanz, February Professional Service and Activities Department and University Service 7

8 University of Pennsylvania 2014 Co-Organizer (with Shawndra Hill), Warren Center Symposium Co-Organizer, Warren Center Distinguished Lecture Series University Committee on Research (Alternate) M.I.T Member, M.I.T. Committee on Curriculum Design Co-Organizer, System Dynamics Society Colloquium, M.I.T. (with Ozge Karanfil) Member, M.I.T. Faculty Reappointment Subcommittee Scientific Advisory Committee, Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks, M.I.T Organizer, Social Dynamics Seminar, M.I.T./Harvard University System Dynamics and Economic Sociology Ph.D. Recruitment Committees Service to the Discipline and Broader Intellectual Community 2014 Program Committee, International Conference on Computational Social Science 2014 Program Committee, International Conference on Social Informatics (DYAD) Elected Council Member, Mathematical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association Editorial Board, Journal of Mathematical Sociology 2012 Scientific Advisory Committee, ECCS 12 Data-Driven Modeling of Contagion Processes Editorial Board, Social Networking 2012 ASA Mathematical Sociology Section Award Committee Member Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology 2011 Organizer, Regular Sessions on Social Networks: Session on Homophily and Tie Dynamics Session on New Theoretical and Empirical Approaches Session on Norms and Networks Session on Organizational and Economic Networks American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV 2007 Organizer, Robert Wood Johnson Brown Bag Seminar Series, Harvard University 8

9 2005 Co-Organizer, International Workshop on Games, Networks, and Cascades, New York City (with Michael Macy and Vincent Buskens) 2003 Organizer, Interdisciplinary Seminar on Network Dynamics, Cornell University Occasional Reviewer: Science, Nature, PNAS, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Epidemiology, Computational Management and Organization Theory, Organization Science, Social Forces, Rationality & Society, Journal of the European Physical Society, JASSS, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, PLoS One; National Science Foundation, The Lancet Media Coverage 9