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| Dr. Erika Fille Legara |
Dr. Erika Fille T. Legara, one of the senior members of
the Complex Systems Group, leaves January 22, 2012 for a postdoctoral work in one of Singapore's premier research institutions.
Dr. Legara, the Most Outstanding PhD Graduate of the College of Science for the year 2011, now works as Scientist in the Cross-disciplinary Data-intensive Analytics (CDA Group), Computing Science Department, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore.
One of the best in the group in terms of publications and international exposure, Dr. Legara is first among her batch mates to leave for postdoctoral work. She will be doing research on urban systems and other social aspects of complex systems.
Her PhD Dissertation is on the applications of ABM and network theory on socio-economic systems: multilevel marketing companies (recruitment process is reminiscent of pyramiding schemes), competing telecommunication companies, and news and media framing.
More on Dr. Legara from her website.
