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









