Joshua Garland received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He currently serves as Center Director and Associate Research Professor at Arizona State University's Center on Information and Narrative Complexity. Previously, he was an Omidyar and Applied Complexity Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.
Dr. Garland studies diverse complex systems, including climate, ecology, politics, and dynamical systems. At ASU's Global Security Initiative, he specializes in online human social dynamics, leveraging social theory, machine learning, time series analysis, and natural language processing to explore intersections of AI, global politics, social media, narrative, and the information environment. His work aims to preserve a healthy information ecosystem and mitigate polarization without resorting to censorship by developing citizen-driven counterspeech initiatives, advancing media literacy, and investigating narrative’s role in susceptibility to information manipulation.