Henry George Xu

Henry George Xu

I am a Research Assistant at the MIT Sloan School of Management, currently advised by Professors David Rand, Gordan Pennycook, and Thomas Costello.

I study mechanisms of persuasion and belief formation through computational and experimental methods. My broad interests lie in Computational Social Science and Machine Learning.

Before MIT, I completed my master's at Carnegie Mellon University and my undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.

Selected Publications

vaccination stance distance by mentions

The Life of a Tie: Social Origins of Network Diversity

Patrick S. Park, Henry George Xu, and Kathleen M. Carley (2024)

Published in 2024 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation

[paper]

PhysarumSM Architecture

PhysarumSM: P2P Service Discovery and Allocation in Dynamic Edge Networks

Thomas Lin, Weiyu Zhao, Ivan Co, Andrew Chen, Henry Xu, and Alberto Leon-Garcia (2021)

Published in 2021 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM)

[paper]