Samuel V. Scarpino

Professor Samuel Scarpino has returned to Northeastern University from a one-year stint as vice president of pathogen surveillance at The Rockefeller Foundation with the mission of reinforcing Northeastern’s place as a world leader in artificial intelligence and life sciences. Since November 2022, Scarpino has served as director of AI plus Life Sciences in the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern. Previously he was assistant professor in the Network Science Institute. Broadly, Sam is a complex systems scientist investigating questions at the intersection of network science and human behavior, whose work spans a broad range of topics, including: infectious disease modeling, forecasting in complex systems, genetic topology of disease, and decision making under uncertainty.