Joshua Morris Epstein[1] is Professor of Epidemiology at the New York University College of Global Public Health.
His doctoral thesis was entitled Political impediments to military effectiveness: the case of Soviet frontal aviation and his advisor was William W.
In 2008, he received an NIH Director's Pioneer Award, and in 2010 an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Amherst College.
[3] In Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up, Epstein and Axtell developed the first large-scale agent-based computational model, the Sugarscape, to explore the role of social phenomenon such as seasonal migrations, pollution, sexual reproduction, combat, and transmission of disease and even culture.
From 1987 to 2010 Epstein was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and served as the director of the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics[9] He taught computational and mathematical modeling at Princeton University and the Santa Fe Institute Summer School.