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 focuses on network science, the study of connected systems in society and nature. I draw on methods from applied mathematics, machine learning, statistics, and physics. Recent topics include models of random hypergraphs, community detection in hypergraphs, opinion dynamics on networks, and gender representation in academic science. My work is supported by the National Science Foundation. I have awesome collaborators.
I have a CV. I teach courses in math, data science, computation, and network science. Middlebury students might want to take a look at my FAQs about classes and student research, or my general FAQs about me and my job. I am on a mission. I have thoughts about jobs at liberal arts colleges. I read.
News
| September 2024 |
In F'24 I am teaching CSCI 0200: Math Foundations of Computing. |
| July 2024 |
The Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support my stream of research in network growth, latent-variable models, dynamics, and social hierarchies through award DMS-2407058. This grant supports my research, including work with undergraduate students, for the years 2024-2027. |
| June 2024 |
I give an invited talk on network science education at the Conference on Network Science in Quebec City, Canada. I also speak in a contributed session on models of edge-correlated growing hypergraphs (slides). |
| New article! Emergence of Polarization in a Sigmoidal Bounded-Confidence Model of Opinion Dynamics (joint with Heather Zinn Brooks and Mason A. Porter) is published in the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems. | |
| May 2024 |
I give an invited (remote) talk on nonbacktracking spectral clustering as part of the workshop on "Modeling and Mining Complex Networks as Hypergraphs" hosted by Toronto Metropolitan University. (Slides) |
| April 2024 |
I give an invited talk on modeling gender disparities in academic mathematics for the DISC Forum at Tufts University. |
| I give an invited (remote) seminar talk on models of gender disparity in professional mathematics at Toronto Metropolitan University. |