Adjunct Professor Paul X McCarthy

My Expertise

Expertise includes:

Large-scale language models
Generative artificial intelligence
Emerging technologies
Startups and innovation
Unconventional data
Natural language processing
Machine learning
Computational social science

Research interests include:

Latent knowledge
Digital economics
Occupation-personality fit
History and philosophy of science
Data science and its application in business, economics and psychology

Keywords

Biography

Professor Paul X McCarthy is a CEO, computational social science research leader and author. His bestselling book Online Gravity explains how technology is rebooting economics worldwide. McCarthy is a contributor to The Conversation, AFR and Forbes on business, technology and innovation.

McCarthy is CEO and co-founder of League of Scholars a startup working with Universities, Governments and Publishers including Nature and News Corporation...view more

McCarthy is CEO and co-founder of League of Scholars a startup working with Universities, Governments and Publishers including Nature and News Corporation to help understand who’s who in research worldwide. McCarthy is also co-founder of several innovative enterprises for IBM, NSW Government and CSIRO—Australia’s National Science Agency and the inventors of Wi-Fi. Previously he was a founding board member and Chairman of The Studio — a new global media tech hub launched in Sydney in 2018.

McCarthy is a trusted adviser to Government and a number of data and AI based technology startups. McCarthy is an Industry Fellow at The UTS Data Science Institute and an Honorary Fellow at Western Sydney University.

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