Yaneer Bar-Yam

Yaneer Bar-Yam
Bar-Yam (on the left) at Wikimania 2014
Born1959 (age 64–65)
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsComplex systems (Application to social, biological and physical systems)
InstitutionsNew England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) (1997-today)
Boston University (1991-1997)
ThesisMicroscopic Theory of the Dynamics of Defects in Semiconductors. (1984)
Doctoral advisorJohn Dimitris Joannopoulos
Doctoral studentsErik Rauch
Websitenecsi.edu/faculty/bar-yam.html

Yaneer Bar-Yam (born 1959) is an American scientist and activist specializing in complex systems. An expert in the quantitative analysis of pandemics, he advised policy makers on the Western African Ebola virus epidemic[1] and founded EndCoronavirus.org, a global network of several volunteers formed in February 2020 to provide information, guidelines, and policy advocacy to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] He is the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), an independent research institution that studies complex systems science and its real-world applications.

  1. ^ "How Community Response Stopped Ebola". New England Complex Systems Institute. Archived from the original on 2023-05-27. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
  2. ^ Bar-Yam, Opinion by Yaneer (12 May 2020). "Don't let governors fool you about reopening". CNN. Archived from the original on 2023-06-06. Retrieved 2020-05-29.