Abdullah Almaatouq
Associate Professor
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAbdullah Almaatouq is an associate professor and computational social scientist at MIT with 13 years of experience studying how groups—teams, crowds, markets, and elections—coordinate, cooperate, and make better collective decisions. He blends rigorous computational methods from his PhD in Computational Science and Engineering with experimental and design-forward approaches developed at the Media Lab to advance social and behavioral research methodology. His work bridges academia and applied research through long-term roles at MIT Connection Science, visiting positions at Wharton and Chicago, and industry engagement as a Microsoft doctoral intern. Known for turning theory into innovative research designs, he focuses not just on explaining group behavior but on creating interventions that improve decision outcomes in real-world institutions. Based in Cambridge, he combines deep technical modeling skills with a practical interest in how organizational and market systems can be engineered for greater collective intelligence.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational Science and Engineering, PhD Computational Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science and Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science and Information Systems at University of SouthamptonInternational Foundation Program (IFP), International Foundation Program (IFP) at University of Reading
python, Arabic, English
Github Skills (33)
blueprint10
meteor-package10
typescript9
lerna9
sass9
correlation9
react9
assignment-problem9
system8
ui-toolkit8
javascript8
notebook8
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react-components7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
amaatouq/guess-the-correlation
Oct 2018 - Oct 2021
Guess the Correlation Game powered by empirica
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 3 years 1 month
guesscorrelation
amaatouq/small-group-discussion
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Experimental follow-up of Moussaïd M et al. (2018) Dynamical networks of influence in small group discussions, PLoS ONE
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
plosinfluencefollowdynamicalgroup-discussions
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