David Masad
Research Scientist at George Mason University
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Masad is an interdisciplinary research scientist with 13 years of experience applying quantitative methods and large-scale data to complex social science and policy questions. He combines agent-based simulations, network analysis, statistical modeling, and text processing to rapidly turn messy social data into actionable insights. A core back-end contributor to the widely used Mesa Python library, he has built foundational classes, spatial components, schedulers, and text visualizations that enable reproducible simulations of emergent behavior. Based in Virginia, he bridges academic rigor from George Mason University with practical open-source engineering, favoring tools that scale from research prototypes to policy-relevant analysis.
13 years of coding experience
George Mason University
Hebrew
Stackoverflow
186reputation
152kreached
2answers
7questions
Github Skills (14)
python10
grid10
mesa10
grids10
scheduler10
visualization8
visualizations8
heap-memory6
pandas6
eclipse6
ggplot6
amazon-emr6
hadoop6
barchart6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
projectmesa/mesa
Sep 2014 - Nov 2021
Mesa is an open-source Python library for agent-based modeling, ideal for simulating complex systems and exploring emergent behaviors.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:316 commits, 148 PRs, 309 pushes in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on developing and implementing core features for the Mesa agent-based modeling library. Their contributions involved creating fundamental classes such as Model, Agent, and Grid, which form the basis for constructing models. The user also created a scheduler to manage agent activation and implemented various spatial components. Furthermore, the user built text-based visualizations.
complex-systemsmodeling-agentspythonagent-basedagent
dmasad/StoryletManager
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
A simple parameterized storylet manager for Twine and Sugarcube
Contributions:39 commits, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 month
parameterizedtwinesugarcube
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