Jessica C. Flack
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Jessica C. Flack is a data scientist, evolutionary biologist, and professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Education[edit]
Jessica Flack attended Cornell University for her undergraduate studies and graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of the Arts (Honors Degree). She received her PhD from Emory University in 2003, where she studied cognitive science, animal behavior and evolutionary theory. She was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute from 2004 to 2007, and studies complexity science, collective behavior, and robustness. [1]
Career[edit]
Jessica Flack worked as a professor at the Santa Fe Institute following the conclusion of her postdoctoral research. From 2012 to 2015 she helped found and direct the Center of Complexity & Collective Computation in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Following her work in Wisconsin, she went back to the Santa Fe Institute and currently works there as a professor. Flack also acts as the director for the Collective Computation Group at SFI, and serves as the Chair of Public Events. She performs much of her research in collaboration with co-director David Krakauer.
The primary nature of Flack's research centers around "how nature computes solutions to problems and how these computations are refined over evolutionary and learning time," as she puts it. Her research draws upon evolutionary theory, cognitive neuroscience and behavior, statistical mechanics, information theory, dynamical systems and theoretical computer science to study the roles of information processing and collective computation in the emergence of robust structure and function in adaptive systems. [2]
Flack's work has appeared in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Royal Society Interface, and Chaos, and has been covered by scientists and journalists in popular press outlets such as Science, The Economist, Current Biology, and the BBC. [3]
Trivia[edit]
Flack's nonacademic interests include cooking, poetry, literature, gardening, and watching sports. She has two cats.[citation needed]
References[edit]
- ↑ Flack, Jessica. "Jessica C. Flack". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
- ↑ Flack, Jessica (2015). "Jessica C Flack". Collective Computation Group @SFI. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
- ↑ "Jessica C. Flack". IEEE Xplore. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
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