Eric
Araújo
Olá! I use computational methods to understand how behaviours, 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.
G&M Young Leaders Training Conference
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 behaviour spread.
Core methodologies: agent-based modeling and simulation, complex network analysis, social dynamics modeling, cognitive behavioural 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!’