Welcome!
I’m Dr. Phil Chodrow, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Middlebury College. My pronouns are he/him/his. You can email me at pchodrow@middlebury.edu or stop by my office, Room 218 in 75 Shannon Street.
My research sits at the intersection of applied mathematics, data science, and network science, the study of connected systems in society and nature. Recent topics include models of random hypergraphs, community detection in hypergraphs, opinion dynamics on networks, and gender representation in academic mathematics. My work is supported by the National Science Foundation.
I teach courses in math, data science, computation, and network science. I have written freely-available lecture notes for undergraduate courses on machine learning and (with Heather Zinn Brooks) network science. I have a CV. Middlebury students might want to take a look at my FAQs about classes and student research. I have thoughts about jobs at liberal arts colleges.
When I’m not working, I’m probably drinking tea, practicing aikido, playing chess, running, reading, or playing board games.
News
| December 2025 |
I am invited mentor at the Complex Networks Winter Workshop (CNWW) in Quebec City, Canada. |
| July 2025 |
Heather Brooks, Nicholas Landry, and I coorganize a minisymposium on mathematical methods in network science at the joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada. |
| June 2025 |
I am an invited participant at the BIRS-CMO workshop on "Collective Social Phenomena: Dynamics and Data" in Oaxaca, Mexico, where I speak on gender representation in academic mathematics. (Slides ) |
| May 2025 |
Izabel Aguiar (SFI) and I are coorganizing a minisymposium on data, inference, and dynamics in complex social systems at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems in Denver, CO. I also speak on gender repreresentation in academic mathematics. (Slides ) |
| Invited short talk on growing hypergraphs at the Montréal Network Science Workshop. (Slides) | |
| March 2025 |
Invited talk at Michigan State on gender representation in academic mathematics. |
| February 2025 |
New preprint: "The illusion of households as entities in social networks." Izabel Aguiar (SFI) has led this project on how the concept of "households" can either clarify or distort the results of social network analysis. Very glad to have been on this intellectual journey with Izabel and senior coauthor Johan Ugander. |