Dr. Hamdi Kavak: About

Dr. Hamdi Kavak

I am Associate Professor at the Department of Computational and Data Sciences and Co-Director of the Center for Social Complexity at George Mason University (GMU). I hold a Ph.D. degree and a Master’s degree in Modeling and Simulation from Old Dominion University, and a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Karadeniz Technical University in Turkey.

My research contributes to the intersection of simulation modeling and data science by using data mining and machine learning techniques to uncover behavioral patterns from publicly available data. This fertile research area lends itself very well to the Computational Social Science (CSS) and Computational Sciences and Informatics (CSI) fields. Therefore, I advise and work with students from both CSS and CSI programs at GMU, and I teach courses in these areas as well. Being a method-oriented person, I apply my research to many domains, particularly urban science, public health, and security-related phenomena. You can check my research and publications pages for more.

Contact

The easiest way to contact me is via email to hkavak {at} gmu.edu. If you are a prospective student interested in joining my research group, please see the “Want to join my research group?” section of the students’ page first, which lists what to include in your email.

You can also find me on LinkedIn or via my ORCID profile.