Hunter Wapman

hunter.wapman@gmail.com

hne.golf


EDUCATION

University of Colorado, Boulder | Boulder, CO | 2019/01 - 2023/12

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science

advised by Daniel Larremore

concentration: computational social science, hierarchies, networks

Santa Fe Institution | Santa Fe, New Mexico | summer 2019

Complex Systems Summer School student

University of Colorado, Boulder | Boulder, CO | fall 2017 - summer 2019

Master of Science, Computer Science

with a focus on Natural Language Processing, Text

Tufts University, College of Arts and Sciences | Medford, MA | fall 2011 - spring 2015

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa


PUBLICATIONS

Competition in Online Dating Markets | 2024

K. Hunter Wapman, Elizabeth Bruch, Daniel B. Larremore

in preparation

Gendered hiring and attrition on the path to parity for academic faculty | 20240110

Nicholas LaBerge, K. Hunter Wapman, Aaron Clauset, Daniel B. Larremore

in preparation

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Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty | 20231020

Katie Spoon, Nicholas LaBerge, K. Hunter Wapman, Samual Zhang, Allison Morgan, Mirta Galesic, Bailey Fosdick, Daniel B. Larremore, Aaron Clauset

Science Advances

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Subfield prestige and gender inequality among US computing faculty | 20221122

Nicholas LaBerge, K. Hunter Wapman, Allison C. Morgan, Sam Zhang, Daniel B. Larremore, Aaron Clauset

Communications of the ACM

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Labor advantages drive the greater productivity of faculty at elite universities | 20221118

Sam Zhang, K. Hunter Wapman, Daniel B. Larremore, Aaron Clauset

Science Advances

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Quantifying hierarchy and dynamics in US faculty hiring and retention | 20220921

K. Hunter Wapman, Sam Zhang Aaron Clauset, Daniel B. Larremore

Nature

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webweb: a tool for creating, displaying, and sharing interactive network visualizations on the web | 2019

K. Hunter Wapman, Daniel B. Larremore

Journal of Open Source Software

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Device-Agnostic Indoor Positioning for Mobile Phones | December 2015

Brett Fischler*, Daniel Griffin*, Tyler Lubeck*, K. Hunter Wapman*, Mai Vu

2015 IEEE 26th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)

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* the authors contributed equally


EXPERIENCE

Visiting Research Assistant | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor, MI | 2020/07 - present

Research Assistant | University of Colorado, Boulder | Boulder, CO | spring 2019 - fall 2023

  • for Daniel Larremore

Teaching Assistant | University of Colorado, Boulder | Boulder, CO | fall 2019

  • for Daniel Larremore's Network Analysis and Modeling class

Research Assistant | University of Colorado, Boulder | Boulder, CO | 2018/01 - 2018/08

Software Developer | athenahealth | Watertown, MA | 2015/08 - 2017/06

  • backend engineering work to evaluate patient outcomes across the electronic health records platform

summer researcher | Tufts University | Medford, MA | summer 2014

  • worked on computational complexity in music with Anselm Blumer

Data Analyst | Kennet Partners | San Mateo, CA | summer 2011

  • interned at a Hedge Fund researching bootstrapped companies for investment potential

PROJECTS

Infinite Jest Networks | Boulder, CO | fall 2018

  • exploring David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest through temporal character co-occurrence networks

webweb | Boulder, CO | fall 2018 - present

  • a tool for creating embeddable visualizations from python/Matlab

textual style over time | Boulder, CO | fall 2018

  • how does writing style change?

wisecrackings.com | Boulder, CO | spring 2018 - fall 2018

  • a website for movie jokes and quotes built to create a dataset for use in a machine-in-the-loop humor assistant

pun detection and location | Boulder, CO | fall 2017

  • a suite of classifiers to determine if a sentence contains a pun and, if so, which word within that sentence is the "pun word"

TALKS AND LECTURES

Faculty Hiring in the U.S. Academic Labor Market | July 2021

  • for Network Science 2021

The Structure and Construction of the U.S. Academic System | July 2020

  • for the International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)

guest lecture: Sampling Networks | October 2019

  • for the Computer Science 5351, Network Analysis and Modeling at the University of Colorado, Boulder

guest lecture: Configuration Model | September 2019

  • for the Computer Science 5351, Network Analysis and Modeling at the University of Colorado, Boulder

how to do things with words | slides | April 2019

  • for the University of Colorado, Boulder's Data Science course

narratives, networks, and art | slides | January 2019

  • for the University of Colorado, Boulder's Graduate Research Exposition

POSTERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Revealing Narrative Structure through Temporal Co-occurrence Networks | 2019

K. Hunter Wapman, Daniel B. Larremore
  • Network Science 2019
  • Graduate Research Exposition, University of Colorado, Boulder

Device-Agnostic Indoor Positioning for Mobile Phones | Spring 2015

  • PIMRC ‘15
  • Tufts University Undergraduate Research & Scholarship Symposium
  • New England Undergraduate Computing Symposium

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

the Society of Young Network Scientists | August 2019 - Fall 2023

Member of the Board (Membership Officer)

the Colorado chapter of the Society of Young Network Scientists | October 2019

Co-founder


ACTIVITIES

Awards 2023: Computer Science Department Research Paper Award

Half Ironman 2018

Marathon 2018, 2016

Olympic Triathlon 2017

Half Marathon 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

Classical Piano 2011 - 2015

Edited Open Source Math and Physics Textbooks for the CK12 Foundation 2008, 2009

Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do 2007

Community Service in Kedougou, Senegal and Darjeeling, India