Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
LHD obtained his PhD in physics in from Université Laval in Québec. He then branched out in different avenues of complex systems modeling; first in microbial and forest ecology as a James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, and later as a researcher at the Institute for Disease Modeling. Now at the Vermont Complex Systems Center, he co-leads the modeling arm of the Joint Lab whose research focuses on the interaction and coevolution of structure and dynamics. Recent examples include social networks interacting with the spread of diseases and ideas, the interplay of plant-pollinator dynamics with commercial honeybee colonies and sustainable agriculture, emergence and growth of institutions against societal issues, online interactions between hate and counter speech, or the modeling of learning mechanisms in multidisciplinary team work.
Selected Publications
Temporal and probabilistic comparisons of epidemic interventions
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Oct. 19, 2023
Multidisciplinary learning through collective performance favors decentralization
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 17, 2023
Limits of individual consent and models of distributed consent in online social networks
ACM FAccT Conference 2022, June 21, 2022
A review and framework for modeling complex engineered system development processes
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, April 11, 2022
Impact and dynamics of hate and counter speech online
EPJ Data Science, Jan. 24, 2022
Which contributions count? Analysis of attribution in open source
2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), May 18, 2021
Social confinement and mesoscopic localization of epidemics on networks
Physical Review Letters, March 1, 2021
Macroscopic patterns of interacting contagions are indistinguishable from social reinforcement
Nature Physics, Feb. 24, 2020
Selected Press
Study probes how to change societal behavior for the better
Discover Magazine, May 20, 2022
Open source ecosystems need equitable credit across contributions
Nature Computational Science, Jan. 14, 2021
How you talk about coronavirus actually impacts its spread
CNET, April 27, 2020
Network epidemiology tutorial by Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Net-COVID, April 9, 2020
Misinformation about an outbreak like Covid-19 is important public health data
STAT, April 7, 2020
Get the message: Scientists are modeling the way social interactions impact virus outbreaks such as COVID-19
Santa Fe Reporter, April 1, 2020
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne on halting the spread of COVID-19
COMPLEXITY by the Santa Fe Institute, March 25, 2020
UVM gets $1M from Google for open source research
WCAX, Jan. 13, 2020
UVM Complex Systems Center to advance open source research with support from Google
UVM Today, Jan. 10, 2020