Shaunette T. Ferguson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Shaunette T. Ferguson, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Associate at IDRIS, Rutgers University–Newark. Trained in economics and network science, she studies how communication, emotion, and social structure shape public discourse, collective behavior, and coordination in complex systems. She brings a comparative and systems-oriented perspective shaped by work in public-sector economic policy, graduate training in financial economics as an Australia Awards Scholar, and doctoral research in Japan as a MEXT Scholar at Kobe University. Her research uses large-scale digital data and computational models to understand how ideas, movements, and patterns of response emerge and spread, especially during periods of disruption. Her work has been presented at leading international conferences, including NetSciX, Complex Networks, the Conference on Complex Systems, and the International Conference on Philosophy of Computing.
