New Faculty Spotlight: Babak Heydari
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Babak Heydari joins the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering department in August 2018 as an Associate Professor. He earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include socio-technical systems, systems engineering and design, social and economic networks, resilience of networked systems, computational social sciences, platform-based systems, sharing economy systems, computational social sciences, game theory, artificial intelligence.