Roby Muhamad is an Indonesian entrepreneur and scientist best known for his work with social network dynamics.
[Ketut Krisna Wijaya]
This CEO left Acer to build a social network in Indonesia, and just raised $3M
Tech In Asia, 1 September 2015. Accessed 25 June 2018. His work spans the fields of
physics,
psychology, and
sociology.
Muhamad earned his bachelor in physics from the
Bandung Institute of Technology,
[Roby Muhamad]
The Conversation, accessed 25 June 2018. and he earned his doctorate in sociology from
Columbia University.
[Nadine Frieschild]
Investors don’t love dating apps? This one just raised a $3M series A round
Tech In Asia, 12 August 2015. Accessed 25 June 2018. He current lectures at the Department of Psychology at the University of Indonesia.[ In 2003, Muhamad and ]Duncan J. Watts
Duncan James Watts (born February 20, 1971) is a sociologist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City, and is known for his work on small-world networks.
E ...
were part of the team which roughly confirmed Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiments on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.Blass, T. (2004). ''The Man Who Shocke ...
's hypothesis on six degrees of separation.
Muhamad is co-owner of the location-based dating app Yogrt.[ He has made public calls for modernizing anti-tobacco efforts targeted at teenagers due to tobacco companies use of social media to negate teens' rational calculation of loss-benefit.][Elly Burhaini Faizal]
Social media plays role in youth smoking, says expert
Jakarta Post, 21 March 2016. Accessed 25 July 2019
References
External links
Official website
1975 births
Bandung Institute of Technology alumni
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Indonesian physicists
Indonesian sociologists
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Indonesia
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