R. Dean Malmgren

Principal, DataScope Analytics LLC

Email: r-malmgren@northwestern.edu

Bio

My primary research interest is in characterizing how complex systems and their agents change over time. Motivated by the observation that complex systems exhibit extraordinarily similar organizations, I am particularly interested in exploring the possibility that there are some underlying evolutionary mechanisms guiding the organization of seemingly disparate systems. I also enjoy running and competing in triathlons as an amateur endurance athelete. In a former lifetime as an undergraduate, I played club water polo and, as captain of the team, we won a national championship; that was fun.

Education

• B. Sc. Chemical Engineering Cum laude, University of Michigan (2003)
• B. Sc. Mathematics, University of Michigan (2003)

Appointments

• Predoctoral Intern, Yahoo! Research (2008)

Awards and honors

• Runner-up, Distinguished Graduate Researcher Award, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Northwestern University (2008)
• Student presentation award, NICO Complexity Conference (2007)
• Honorable mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2006)
• NSF-IGERT Graduate Research Fellowship, NSF (2005)
• Murphy Fellowship, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Northwestern University (2004)