He received his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he conducted research in the application of natural language processing techniques to study group decision making on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Expert Advisory Panels. His research areas at GW will include individual and group decision-making under risk, the deployment expertise in technical systems, system architecture, and computational social science. Prior to coming to GW, Prof. Broniatowski was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, and gained valuable industry experience working at Synexxus, a small business located in Arlington, Virginia, that specializes in systems integration.