I'm originally from a small timber town in Western Australia known for its jarrah. For my undergrad I completed a double degree in Science and Arts at Curtin University, majoring in Maths and Digital & Social Media, before picking up a First Class Honours in Mathematical Sciences. Currently, I'm a PhD Candidate in Applied Maths at Adelaide University, under the supervision of Dr Ben Ye and Prof Lewis Mitchell, where I model opinion dynamics over complex networks; with a particular interest how social media platforms influence their users opinions and how actions and opinions coevolve in social dilemmas.
Outside the academic bubble, I love music and films. You'll find me at the cinema pretty regularly, or in May, talking about Eurovision like it's my full-time job.
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📨 connor [dot] davidson [at] adelaide [dot] edu [dot] au
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my main interest is modelling opinion dynamics, this encompasses many applications:
Davidson E. C., Zino L., Cao M. & Ye M. (July, 2026). “Modelling the coevolution of opinion dynamics and decision making in social dilemmas,” in Proc. 24th European Control Conference (ECC26), Reykjavík, Iceland. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.08840
Davidson E. C. & Ye M. (2025). Modelling the Closed Loop Dynamics Between a Social Media Recommender System and Users' Opinions. arXiv preprint: 2507.19792. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.19792