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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