Projects

Mathematics of war

Quantitative analysis of conflict is a relatively new discipline that combines data collection, statistical analysis and modeling to understand war and inform political strategy. Our research group brings together an interdisciplinary group of physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists and political economists to use numbers and theoretical models to understand war. If you’re interested in joining the project or collaborating on future research get in touch with me and let me know. To read more about the research go to the articles page or you can go to the website mathematicsofwar.com for in depth coverage of the research. Here are the collaborators on this project

Neil Johnson and video lecture here
Mike Spagat
CERAC
J. C. Bohórquez
Alex Dixon

A complete list of background papers relevant to this research can be found here

Younoodle

Younoodle is a 18 person venture funded startup based in San Francisco. It specializes in the quant analysis of early stage private equity companies. On the community side of the startup, younoodle.com is home to over 70,000 startup companies and 400,000 members from around the world. Younoodle has a world class team of investors that include Peter Theil, Max Levchin and Gordon Crovitz. I’m a Director of the company and head up the data, strategy and analytics teams (and yes we’re looking for talented people with interesting backgrounds to come work with us). You can read more about the company here;

Techcrunch
The Telegraph
BBC online
BBC (video)
CNBC (video)