Kalin Agrawal

Research interests

I am a PhD student at the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (IMBS), part of the School of Social Science at UC Irvine.

My advisor is Bill Batchelder.

I work on methods for aggregating multiple judgements for application in the fields of sociology and anthropology. See below or contact me directly for papers, presentation notes, or computer code.

Primarily, I am working with Bayesian cognitive models, with inference coming from Metropolis-Hastings algorithms written in R by myself or using JAGS/BUGS/WinBUGS. I also write agent-based simulations in Java.

Occasionally, I post notes concerning research ideas, methods, and computation tools on my blog.

Get in touch with me via email (kalin.agrawal [at] gmail.com or kagrawal@uci.edu ) or stop by my office on UCI's campus, in Social Science Tower (SST) 685.

Contact me for reprints of proceedings, papers, or presentations.

Proceedings

Agrawal, Kalin, and W.H. Batchelder. "Cultural Consensus Theory: Aggregating Signed Graphs Under a Balance Constraint." In Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP 2012), edited by Shanchieh Jay Yang, A. M. Greenberg, and M. Endsley, 53-60. LNCS 7227. Heidelberg: Springer, 2012. SpringerLink

Presentations

Cultural Consensus Theory: Aggregating Complete Signed Graphs Under a Balance Constraint -- Part 2. International Sunbelt Social Network Conference XXXII, Redondo Beach, California, March 2012. Slides

Cultural Consensus Theory: Estimating Consensus Graphs Under Constraints. 44th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts, July 16th, 2011. Slides

Teaching

I am not currently teaching any courses.

CV/Resume

Resume / CV in PDF.

Last updated: June 2015