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Dr. Jacob Foster is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a founding co-Director of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His research focuses on computational sociology, cultural evolution, and the intersection of cognition, culture, and computation. He holds a BS in Physics from Duke University and a PhD in Physics from the University of Calgary, with postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago.
His work integrates computational methods with qualitative insights to study collective intelligence, the dynamics of ideas, and the co-construction of culture and cognition. Notable contributions include applying machine learning to analyze cultural meanings in text and modeling the evolution of scientific ideas. He has published in top journals like Science, American Sociological Review, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Key awards include the NeurIPS 2021 Best Paper Award and the 2016 Star-Nelkin Paper Award. His research has been supported by the Institute for Advanced Study and the Santa Fe Institute. He is currently writing a book on knowledge as an emergent property of complex adaptive systems and leads initiatives to foster interdisciplinary collaboration in the study of intelligence.
