Maryam Gooyabadi applies advanced machine learning, computational modeling, and complex systems analysis to interdisciplinary problems, from digital humanities to agent-based simulations. Her work customizes, develops, and utilizes computational and mathematical methodologies to study social conventions, including shared linguistic meaning, religious and belief systems, norms, culture, and ideologies.

With a diverse academic background spanning computer science, psychology, philosophy, political science, and mathematical behavioral sciences, she brings a uniquely integrative approach to understanding social and behavioral dynamics. Her current projects explore innovations in firearms and their broader social influence, as well as the evolution of Muslim Brotherhood rhetoric and messaging. Through computational methods, she seeks to uncover patterns in historical and contemporary socio-political transformations.

Biography: 

I'm an Assistant professor of practice at Wesleyan Univeristy. I have a broad educational background with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Science Engineering (CU Boulder) and a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Psychology (CUNY), a Master's of Arts degree in Philosophy, Political science, and Economics (PPE) from the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science (UC Irvine), and a Doctoral degree in Mathematical Behavioral Sciences from the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (IMBS) in the School of Social Sciences (UC Irvine).  I have experience outside of academia as a program director in China for undergraduate research, founder and co-founder in three tech startups, work in international development in India, and as a lab manager in New York before continuing my graduate education in California. Some of her hobbies include construction, archery, hiking, traveling, cooking, arts and crafts, stone carving, and lion dancing.