Nigel Gilbert
Director at epress.ac.uk
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNigel Gilbert is a leading computational sociologist and director who blends engineering roots with decades of academic leadership, serving as Professor at the University of Surrey and heading both the Institute of Advanced Studies and the Centre for Research in Social Simulation. He designs and applies agent-based models and complexity-informed evaluation to real-world policy challenges through CECAN, where he leads projects on unanticipated policy impacts and institutional trade-offs in regional development. A founder of epress.ac.uk and the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, he has a rare combination of hands-on coding, methodological scholarship, and textbook authorship in sociological methods. Trained as an engineer and a Cambridge PhD in the sociology of scientific knowledge, he was appointed CBE for services to engineering and the social sciences, reflecting impact across disciplines and government practice.
10 years of coding experience
King Edwards School, Birmingham, UKPhD, PhD at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (147)
network-visualization10
javascript10
build-configuration10
yjs10
html10
visjs10
commonjs10
css10
ws10
minify10
vis-network10
directed-graph9
compiler9
websocket9
system-design9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
micrology/y-vis-network
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Example of yjs used to share an editable network graph with vis-network
Contributions:25 commits, 16 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 6 months
editablevis-networkvisgraphyjs
micrology/prsm
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
PRSM: Participatory System Mapping
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 836 commits in 3 years 2 months
policy-evaluationnetwork-visualizationparticipatory-modellingpolicy-analysismapping
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