Albert B. Kao

University of Massachusetts Boston — United States

Engineering · Physical Sciences

12h-index1.7kcitations49works1.82yr avg
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Research Topics

Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics(13), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(12), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence(12), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(11), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior(10)

Publications49 total

A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons
2025Open Access
A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons
2025Open Access
Author response: A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons
2025Open Access
Collective incentives improve group accuracy by reducing reliance on shared news sources
Collective Intelligence·2025Open Access
A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons
2025Open Access
Timing decisions as the next frontier for collective intelligence
Trends in Ecology & Evolution·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
Timing decisions as the next frontier for collective intelligence
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023Open Access
Opposing Responses to Scarcity Emerge from Functionally Unique Sociality Drivers
The American Naturalist·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation
Journal of The Royal Society Interface·2023· 78 citedOpen Access
Data & code for "Opposing responses to scarcity emerge from functionally unique sociality drivers"
Figshare·2023Open Access
Collective decision strategies in the presence of spatio-temporal correlations
Collective Intelligence·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation
2022· 12 citedOpen Access
Stewardship of global collective behavior
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2021· 281 citedOpen Access
Individual error correction drives responsive self-assembly of army ant scaffolds
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2021· 10 citedOpen Access
The wisdom of stalemates: consensus and clustering as filtering mechanisms for improving collective accuracy
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2020· 12 citedOpen Access
Fisheries-induced selection against schooling behaviour in marine fishes
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2020· 31 citedOpen Access
Collective learning in news consumption
2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Changes in group size during resource shifts reveal drivers of sociality across the tree of life
2020· 6 cited
The wisdom of stalemates: consensus and clustering as filtering mechanisms for improving collective accuracy
2020· 2 citedOpen Access
Modular structure within groups causes information loss but can improve decision accuracy
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2019· 40 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Iain D. Couzin(28), Andrew M. Berdahl(22), Joseph B. Bak-Coleman(19), Andrew T. Hartnett(18), Matthew J. Lutz(17), Christos C. Ioannou(16), Xingli Giam(15), Fritz A. Francisco(6), Shoubhik Chandan Banerjee(5), Colin J. Torney(4), Paweł Romańczuk(4), Dora Biro(4), Simon Garnier(4), Niccolò Pescetelli(4), Mirta Galešić(3), Noam Miller(3), Claudia Winklmayr(3), Amanda K. Hund(3), Fernando P. Santos(3), Jean-Gabriel Young(3)