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Joshua Becker is an Associate Professor at the UCL School of Management, University College London. His research focuses on collective intelligence, exploring how group and organizational design impact performance in innovation, decision-making, and forecasting. He holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Kellogg School of Management. Prior to academia, he worked in mediation and communication training, facilitating hundreds of disputes and employer/employee conflicts. Currently, he volunteers as a neighbor mediator in London and provides pro bono workshops on negotiation, communication, and conflict resolution for charities.
Dr. Becker’s academic journey includes a postdoc in the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems and a background in customer service management. His work bridges theory and practice, emphasizing structured communication networks to enhance collective outcomes. Key themes in his research include the ‘crowd classification problem,’ which highlights how deliberation can improve individual numeric estimates while reducing group decision accuracy, and innovative applications like the Empirica virtual lab for macro-level experiments.
He has been honored as one of the ‘Best 40 Under 40’ business school professors (2023, Poets & Quants). His advising includes two doctoral students: Nelberto Nicholas 'Sam' Quinto and Jingze Wang. Joshua teaches courses on negotiation and decision-making, as well as technology’s role in collective intelligence, and actively engages in grant-driven research to scale social, behavioral, and economic science experiments.
His research lab, Empirica, enables high-throughput experimentation to study complex social systems. Joshua’s work often intersects with interdisciplinary challenges, such as reducing medical errors through structured information-sharing networks and analyzing partisan bias in climate change interpretation.
