Notes on Contributors

Amanda Andrei is a social scientist and senior artificial intelligence engineer at The MITRE Corporation specializing in social analytics, development of innovative processes and spaces, and application of mixed methods to sociotechnical problems. She received her BA in Anthropology from the College of William & Mary, her Certificate in Computational Social Science from George Mason University, and her MA in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University.

Kim M. Bloomquist is an operations research analyst with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's Taxpayer Advocate Service. He has authored and coauthored numerous papers and book chapters on the economics of taxpayer compliance and agent-based modeling. His research has been cited in Congressional testimony, the Washington Post, Tax Notes, and Tax Notes International. He has received several awards for his research on tax compliance including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Jan Francke Tax Research Award, the Cedric Sandford medal for the best paper at the seventh International Conference on Tax Administration in Sydney, Australia, and the IRS Research Community Award for Research Technical Expertise. Kim received his PhD (Computational Social Science) from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia in 2012.

Kevin Comer is a Modeling and Simulation Engineer at the MITRE Corporation, specializing in agent-based modeling design, development and validation. ...

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