Eric
Araújo
Olá! I use computational methods to understand how behaviors, opinions, and sentiments spread through societies — through multiagent modeling and simulation. My current work centers on the computational modeling of Christian and religious communities, alongside ongoing research in crime and urban networks, political polarization, and public health.
Matristics
How well do frontier language models know the women who shaped Christianity's first five centuries? A benchmark of six models across accuracy, framing, and the silences they inherit.
ericaraujo.com/matristics ↗ Faith & ComputingCS Prayers
A Book of Hours for Computing — prayers for those who study, teach, and practice computer science. For first days and finals week, for debugging and deploying.
csprayers.com ↗A Framework for Modeling Christian Communities with Agent-Based Models
My work bridges computer science and the social sciences, applying agent-based modeling and complex network analysis to questions of social dynamics. My current focus is the computational modeling of Christian and religious communities — including church polarization and the dynamics of faith communities — supported by the Calvin Research Fellowship and a Nagel Institute Fellowship. A complementary thread applies AI and large language models to early Christian texts to recover and better understand the lives and roles of women in the early church. Continuing threads include crime network topology and urban structure, political opinion formation, and epidemiological behavior spread.
Core methodologies: agent-based modeling and simulation, complex network analysis, social dynamics modeling, cognitive behavioral frameworks, machine learning.
There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: ‘Mine!’