Nicholas A. Coles

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, where I direct the Social Science Collaboratory: a group dedicated to building and understanding big team science initiatives. 

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Much of my work focuses on collective intelligence – both human and artificial. For example, I founded the Many Smiles Collaboration and the Emotion Physiology and Experience Collaboration. Through global experimentation and crowdsourced machine learning, these collaborations helped document the physiological basis of emotional consciousness. Through this kind of work, I have more broadly studied the rise, benefits, and challenges of big teams across the history of science – ranging from the historic Manhattan Project to the modern AI Race.