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General Information

Full Name William H. W. Thompson
Email wthomps3@uvm.edu
Website https://www.willhwthompson.com
GitHub https://github.com/WillHWThompson

Education

  • 2022 – Present
    Ph.D. in Complex Systems & Data Science
    University of Vermont
  • 2016 – 2020
    B.A. in Liberal Arts
    St. John’s College, Santa Fe

Experience

  • 2022 – Present
    Graduate Research Assistant
    University of Vermont
  • 2021 – Present
    Post-Baccalaureate Researcher
    Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Aug 2020 – Dec 2020
    Data Scientist
    MITRE Corporation
  • May 2019 – May 2021
    Head Senior Lab Assistant
    St. John’s College
  • Jun 2018 – Aug 2018
    Undergraduate Research Fellow
    Carnegie Mellon University
  • Jun 2017 – Jun 2018
    Undergraduate Researcher
    Santa Fe Institute

Grants & Awards

  • Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) Grant — DOE (2020)
  • MITRE Best Paper Incentive Prize (2022)
  • Large Team Distinguished Performance Award — LANL (2022)
  • 2nd Place, UVM Computing Student Research Day (2023)
  • 3rd Place, UVM Computing Science Research Day (2022)
  • Dean’s Award for College Service — St. John’s (2020)
  • Robert Neidorf Memorial Scholarship (2018)
  • ARIEL Grant — St. John’s College (2017)

Publications (Peer-Reviewed Journals)

  • N. W. Landry, W. H. W. Thompson, L. Hébert-Dufresne, J.-G. Young. “Reconstructing networks from simple and complex contagions.” *Phys. Rev. E* **110** (4) L042301 (2024).
  • A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo *et al.* “Testing meson portal dark sector solutions to the MiniBooNE anomaly at the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills experiment.” *Phys. Rev. D* **109** (9) 095017 (2024).
  • A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo *et al.* “Axion-Like Particles at Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills.” *Phys. Rev. D* **107** 095036 (2023).
  • A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo *et al.* “First Leptophobic Dark Matter Search from Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills.” *Phys. Rev. Lett.* **129** 021801 (2022).
  • A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo *et al.* “First dark matter search results from Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills.” *Phys. Rev. D* **106** 012001 (2022).
  • M. Koehler *et al.* “The structure and dynamics of US common law.” *Front. Phys.* (Jan 2022).

Publications (Preprints)

  • W. H. W. Thompson, Z. Wojitski, S. DeDeo. “Levy Flights of the Collective Imagination.” arXiv:1812.04013 [cs.SI].
  • G. Salmon, W. H. W. Thompson, S. DeDeo. “Consilience and the cultural evolution of conceptual networks in London’s Royal Society.” *Proc. R. Soc. B* (in review).

Conference Proceedings

  • {"W. Thompson *et al.* “Evolving Robust Facility Placements.” *Companion Proc. GECCO 2023*, pp. 775-778. doi"=>"10.1145/3583133.3590712."}
  • A. Isherwood *et al.* “Modeling Macaque Fighting Dynamics with the Evolutionary Model Discovery Framework.” *CSS Society Conference 2022*.

Talks

  • “Inferring Interaction Kernels in Stochastic Opinion Dynamics Models” — NetSci 2024, Québec City
  • “Understanding Polarization in the Higher-Order Non-Linear Voter Model” — Dynamics Days 2024, Davis CA
  • “The Emergence of Polarization in the Non-Linear Voter Model on Higher-Order Networks” — Joint Mathematics Meetings 2024, San Francisco CA
  • “Evolving Robust Facility Placements” — GECCO 2023, Lisbon Portugal
  • “Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills Dark Matter Search” — Magnificent CEvNS 2021 (virtual)

Outreach & Service

  • Peer Reviewer, *Physical Review E* (Nov 2024)
  • Guest lecture “Introduction to Network Science”, Data Science 1, UVM (Nov 2024)
  • Series of public talks on percolation and complex systems (2024)

Technical Skills

  • Programming Languages — Julia, Python, C++
  • Frameworks / Libraries — PyTorch, ROOT
  • Other — UNIX systems, MySQL, MongoDB

Open-Soucre Projects

  • 2020
    strategy-mining
    • Evolutionary framework for agent-based modeling (NetLogo / MASON)