Prof. Duncan J. Watts — Research Profile
University of Pennsylvania · Computer and Information Science
Graduate application deadlines
Computer and Information Science
Computer and Information Science, Ph.D.
Fall 2027Application deadline
Dec 15, 2026 23:59 EST
Computer & Information Science, MSE
Fall 2027Early Application Deadline
Nov 1, 2026
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Application deadline
Regular Application Deadline
Feb 1, 2027
Source: gradadm.seas.upenn.eduChecked Nov 2, 2026
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Prof. Duncan J. Watts at University of Pennsylvania Computer and Information Science lists Computational Social Science as their registered research area.
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Recent papers
- Empirical Trajectory Sparsity Biases Mobility-Informed Epidemic ModelingNewPreprintResearch Square · Nov 2
- Algorithmic systems, human agency and the future of platform researchNature Computational Science · Sep 21
- The Media Bias Detector: A framework for annotating and analyzing the newsScience Advances · Sep 9
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