Hiroki Sayama

Distinguished Professor, Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering at SUNY

Hiroki Sayama is a Professor in the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, and the Director of the Center for Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems (CoCo), at Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA. He also holds a non-tenured Professorship in the School of Commerce at Waseda University, Japan. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and D.Sc. in Information Science, all from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He did his postdoctoral work at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His research interests include complex dynamical networks, human and social dynamics, collective behaviors, artificial life/chemistry, interactive systems, and complex systems education, among others. He is an expert of mathematical/computational modeling and analysis of various complex systems. He has published more than 180 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings papers and has written or edited 14 books and conference proceedings about complex systems related topics. His open-access textbook on complex systems modeling and analysis (http://tinyurl.com/imacsbook) has been downloaded more than 60,000 times globally and has become one of the standard textbooks on this subject. He currently serves as an elected Council and Executive Committee member of the Complex Systems Society (CSS), the Chief Editor of Complexity (Wiley/Hindawi), an Associate Editor of Artificial Life (MIT Press), and as an editorial board member for several other journals.