Jared Edgerton is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas and external researcher with Stanford University’s Human Trafficking Data Lab. His research focuses on the social origins of conflict at the individual, subnational, and international levels. To study these processes, he uses, adapts, and develops tools in network analysis, computational linguistics, and machine learning. Jared has publications at American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Peace Research, Social Networks, and Complex Networks, among others.