Faculty
Abdullah Almaatouq is the Douglas Drane Career Professor in Information Technology and an Assistant Professor of Information Technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
His research focuses on the mechanisms of decision-making in networked environments where decisions are influenced by interactions with others. Currently, he develops dynamical models of inference, judgment, learning, and decision-making that can adapt to interconnected social and non-stationary information environments, and tests such models using a wide array of methods ranging from behavioral experiments and observational studies to computer simulations and mathematical analyses.
He holds dual MS and a PhD from MIT and a BSc from the University of Southampton.
Almaatouq, Abdullah, Mohammed Alsobay, Ming Yin, and Duncan J. Watts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol. 118, No. 36 (2021): e210106211. Download Paper.
Almaatouq, Abdullah, Alejandro Noriega-Campero, Abdulrahman Alotaibi, P.M. Krafft, Mehdi Moussaid, and Alex Pentland. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 117, No. 21 (2020): 11379-86. Download Paper.
Almaatouq, Abdullah, Joshua Becker, James P. Houghton, Nicolas Paton, Duncan J. Watts, and Mark E. Whiting. Behavior Research Methods Vol. 53, No. 5 (2021): 2158-2171. Download Paper.
Noriega, Alejandro, Dalia Camacho, Daniela Meizner, Jennifer Enciso, Hugo Quiroz-Mercado, Virgilio Morales-Canton, Abdullah Almaatouq, and Alex Pentland. JMIR Informative Research Vol. 5, No. 8 (2021): e25290. Download Paper.
Jason W. Burton, Abdullah Almaatouq, M. Amin Rahimian, and Ulrike Hahn. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Volume 43, Seattle, WA: July 2021.
Abdullah Almaatouq, Joshua Becker, Michael S. Bernstein, Robert Botto, Eric T. Bradlow, Ekaterina Damer, Angela Duckworth, Tom Griffiths, Joshua K. Hartshorne, David Lazer, Edith Law, Min Liu, J. Nathan Matias, David Rand, Matthew J. Salganik, Emma Satlof-Bedrick, Maurice Schweitzer, Hirokazu Shirado, Jordan W. Suchow, Siddharth Suri, Milena Tsvetkova, Duncan J. Watts, Mark E. Whiting and Ming Yin. Philadelphia, PA: June 2021. Download Paper.
Leaders often have to decide whether to delegate projects to individuals or a group. According to a new study, it should depend on the task.
Is the saying true that two heads are better than one? A new study by Abdullah Almaatouq sheds light on this age-old debate. He found that the answer depends on the complexity of the task.
"Are two heads better than one? Or do too many cooks spoil the broth?"
A new study ... digs into the question of whether it's better for employees to work in teams or alone.
