Hiroki Sayama

Hiroki Sayama is a Professor (non-tenure-track) at Binghamton University, State University of New York and holds a concurrent position as SUNY Distinguished Professor since 2024. He previously served as Professor at Waseda University (2018-2024) and has held academic roles at institutions including University of Electro-Communications and Nagoya University. His work spans systems science, adaptive networks, and computational social science.

His research focuses on complex systems, network analysis, and modeling of social dynamics. Key areas include opinion dynamics, collective behavior, and artificial life, with recent work on swarm systems and multilayer networks. Awards include the 2025 Academic Impact Award and multiple best paper/poster recognitions from conferences like NetSci and AOM.

His contributions to public health include modeling COVID-19 hospitalization forecasts and transportation impacts on healthcare outcomes. In artificial life, he has explored cellular automata and self-reproduction mechanisms. His methodological innovations include network-based phase space analysis and matrix-weighted network models.