Kyuri Park

I am currently a PhD candidate at the Computational Science Lab within the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam , where I am supervised by Dr. Vítor V. Vasconcelos and Dr. Michael Lees. My research focuses on computational modeling of complex dynamical systems, with applications to (mental) health, climate change, and sustainability. I am particularly interested in how people’s perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs interact within broader social systems, and how these dynamics can reveal meaningful leverage points for intervention. I am also very interested in causality, particularly in how causal structure and directionality can be inferred in complex systems and what this means for designing interventions.

I completed my Master's in Methodology and Statistics at Utrecht University, where I worked on causal modeling, specifically estimating cyclic causal models using discovery algorithms, under Dr. Oisín Ryan. Prior to that, I studied Psychological Methods at the University of Amsterdam, where I learned about psychometrics, formal modeling of cognition, and Bayesian modeling. For my Bachelor's thesis, I explored the integration of variables with different time scales into a single network model and its impact on network density, supervised by Prof. Dr. Denny Borsboom and Dr. Claudia van Borkulo.