Resident, External, and Fractal Faculty members enjoy conversation with visiting researchers and Miller Scholars in the atrium at SFI's Cowan Campus. (image: Kate Joyce)

External Faculty are central to SFI’s identity as a world-class research institute. They enrich our networks of interactions, help us push the boundaries of complex-systems science, and connect us to more than 70 institutions around the globe.

This year, ten new researchers joined SFI’s External Faculty

Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Google
VP and Fellow at Google, CTO of Technology & Society and founder of Paradigms of Intelligence
Carl Bergstrom
University of Washington
Professor of Biology
Erica Cartmill
Indiana University Bloomington
Professor of Cognitive Science, Anthropology, and Animal Behavior
Nicholas de Monchaux
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Weber-Shaughness Professor and Head of Architecture
Karine Gibbs
University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
University of Vermont
Professor of Computer Science
L. Mahadevan
Harvard University
Professor of Physics; de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics; Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Michael Ralph
Howard University
Professor and Chair, Department of Afro-American Studies
Dana Randall
Georgia Institute of Technology
Regents’ Professor of Computer Science, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Associate Dean for Access and Advancement in the College of Computing
Fernanda Valdovinos
University of California, Davis
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science & Policy