Dakota Murray

Dakota Murray is an assistant professor in the department of Information Science and Technology at the University at Albany. He earned a doctorate in Informatics from Indiana University – Bloomington. Since then, he has worked as a professional data scientist at Digital Science where he provided bibliometric consultation for national funding agencies, and then later as a research faculty at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University. 

Dr. Murray's research aims to understand the social forces and networks of communication underpinning knowledge production. His work blends data-driven and computational approach with theory from sociology, philosophy and science and technology studies. Specific projects have examined disagreement in science, scientists’ mobility, interdisciplinary collaboration and open source software ecosystems. His work has been featured in venues such as PNAS, Nature, Nature Human Behavior, and JASIST.