Dylan Walker

Dylan Walker was an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow from fall 2013 to spring 2o16. He is an assistant professor of information systems at BU’s Questrom School of Business, which he joined in 2012. He received his PhD in Physics from SUNY Stony Brook in 2008, followed by a postdoctoral position at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is currently serving as the co-chair of the 2017 BU Data Science (BUDS) Day conference, as part of the Institute’s Data Science Initiative. His research applies empirical techniques to large-scale social networks and networked systems in order to understand the role of online interactions in the diffusion of information, behaviors, and dynamic processes. His work fuses in-the-wild networked randomized trials with large-scale data analysis to inform new policies and incentive structures that seek to promote or discourage behavioral and economic outcomes at the individual, community, and population level.

Education

• ph.D. Stony Brook University (2002 — 2008)
• B.S. New York University (1997 — 2002)
• B.E. Stevens Institute of Technology (1997 — 2002)

Companies

• Associate Professor Chapman University (2021)
• Assistant Professor Boston University Questrom School of Business (2012)
• Research Scientist NYU Stern School of Business (2008 — 2012)