Postdoctoral Researcher
jameshou@wharton.upenn.edu
Computational Social Science Lab,
The University of Pennsylvania
PhD: 2020, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management.
Management Research: System Dynamics.
Committee: Hazhir Rahmandad, Ray Reagans, David Rand, Abdullah Almaatouq
Dissertation: “Interdependent Diffusion: The social contagion of interacting beliefs”
SM: 2019, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management.
Management Research: System Dynamics.
Advisor: Hazhir Rahmandad
Thesis: “Why meaning matters for belief diffusion in social networks”
SB: 2008, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering. Aerospace Engineering.
Thesis: “Fly-by-wire control of a monocopter”
2020 - Present: University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School, Operations, Information and Decisions
School of Engineering and Applied Science, Computer & Information Science
Computational Social Science Lab
Postdoctoral Researcher. Supervisor: Duncan Watts
2012 - 2015: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sloan School of Management, Information Technology
Research Scientist. Supervisor: Stuart Madnick
2012: Meister Consulting Group
Fellow.
2008-2012: Aurora Flight Sciences
Cambridge Research and Development Center
Aerospace Systems Engineer
Almaatouq, A., Becker, J., Houghton, J. P., Paton, N., Watts, D. J., & Whiting, M. E. (2021). Empirica: a virtual lab for high-throughput macro-level experiments. Behavior Research Methods, 1-14.
Houghton, J. (2020). Interdependent Diffusion: The social contagion of interacting beliefs. (Doctoral Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Houghton, J. P., Siegel, M., Madnick, S., Tounaka, N., Nakamura, K., Sugiyama, T., … & Shirnen, B. (2019). Beyond keywords: Tracking the evolution of conversational clusters in social media. Sociological Methods & Research, 48(3), 588-607.
Houghton, J. P. (2019). Why meaning matters for belief diffusion in social networks. (Masters Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Ellis, R., Huang, K., Siegel, M., Moussouris, K., & Houghton, J. (2018). Fixing a hole: The labor market for bugs. In New Solutions for Cybersecurity, Alex Pentland, Howard Shrobe, and David Shrier (Eds.). MIT Press.
Houghton, J. (2017). Network Propagation of Connected Ideas. In Proceedings of the 35th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society.
Houghton, J. (2016). A Causal Overview of Formal, Dynamic, Theory-Driven Models of Social Movements. The 111th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA.
Houghton, J. (2016). Lessons from software testing for developing behavioral tests of dynamic models. In Proceedings of the 34th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society.
Ward, R., Houghton, J. & Perl, I. (2015). SDXchange: stand‐alone translators to enable XMILE model adaptation, transportation, and exchange. System Dynamics Review, 31.1-2: 86-95.
Houghton, J., & Siegel, M. (2015). Advanced data analytics for system dynamics models using PySD. In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society.
Houghton, J, et al. (2014). A Survey of Methods for Data Inclusion in System Dynamics Models: Methods, Tools, and Applications. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society.
Houghton, J., Siegel, M., & Goldsmith, D. (2013.) Modeling the Influence of Narratives on Collective Behavior. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference of the System Dynamics Society.
Greitzer, E. M., et al. (2010). N+3 Aircraft Concept Designs and Trade Studies Final Report. Nasa cr-2010-216794/vol2, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio 44135.
Houghton, J., & Hoburg, W. (2008). Fly-by-wire Control of a Monocopter. Technical Report, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.